Don't Talk While Driving!!

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It is very painful to note that a good number of two and four wheeler drivers use mobile phones while driving.

Whether in the rush hour morning traffic or whether in the evening hours after a day’s strenuous work, they can be found using mobile phones on the road. It is a pity that they all know that the safest way of avoiding accidents, is not to use a mobile phone at all while driving.

NOW, LET US LOOK AT SOME RECORDED STATISTICS :

In a dubious distinction for the country, the World Health Organization has revealed in its first ever Global Status Report on Road Safety that more people die in road accidents in India than anywhere else in the world, including the more populous China.

THE STATISTICS FOR INDIA ARE CHILLING !

In 2008, India recorded 130,000 deaths because of road accidents, which was 10 percent of the world’s total fatal accidents!
At least 13 people die every hour in road accidents in the country, the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau reveals. In 2007, 1.14 lakh people in India lost their lives in road mishaps — that's significantly higher than the 2006 road death figures in China, 89,455.
Road deaths in India registered a sharp 6.1% rise between 2006 and 2007. However, road safety experts say the real numbers could be higher since many of these accident cases are not even reported.

Use of mobile phone – talking and messaging included – while driving has been found to be the single most causative factor for these accidents. Most mobile phone related crashes happen when a person is answering an incoming call.

The users of mobile phones who do both talking/messaging and driving at the same time do not recognize the harm they do unto themselves and also to other road users. Researchers have found out that drivers are four times more likely to have an accident if they use a mobile phone on the road.

The best ways to follow in the use of mobile phones while driving are:
- Don’t talk or text when driving
- Let your voice mail pick up the call
- If you have a fellow passenger let that person answer mobile phone for you
- If you need to make or receive a call, pull into a safe area to do so
Though laws have been enacted banning use of mobile phones while driving still we find many violations.

Well. In such a case, the advertisements aired on the TV channels by some mobile operators like walk while you talk, may have to be withdrawn.
Or alternatively, these mobile operators can track such mobiles on the move and levy a penalty for each violation and pass on the same to the government agencies. This will reduce burden of already stretched police force.Pls share dis information with everyone.

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Payeng - forest man of India

Jadav Payeng, popularly known as Mulai, has been on a one-man mission to save Assam’s green cover. He has single-handedly grown a sprawling forest on a 550-hectare sandbar in the middle of the Brahmaputra. He was born in 1969.

Payeng set up a small plantation on a chapori (sandbar) on the Brahmaputra off Jorhat town in 1979. Two years later, he helped the social forestry wing of the forest department to set up a plantation on a 200-hectare plot on the chapori. He took care of the plantation, camping inside the area with his wife Binita Payeng and his family, even after the scheme ended in 1988.

Under his watchful eye, the plantation grew to over 1000 hectares as Payeng single handedly guarded the area from repeated attempts at encroachment and felling. Now he starts another 200 hectares land for plantation. His aim is to spread his forest to Bongaon of Majuli. He wants to establish Jorhat and Majuli as Zurich of Switzerland.

Ironically, as his conservation efforts began to bear fruit, the people of adjoining villages initially boycotted his family. The plantation, over 20km northwest of this town, is now a full fledged forest with over 50 barking and hog deer, elephants, three one-horned rhino, 5 Royal Bengal tiger/tigress with two cubs, jackal, fox, wild roosters, vultures, snakes and other reptiles and local and migratory birds.

There are thousands of valuable trees - Gomari, Simolu, Teak, Azar, Khakan, Veleu, Jamun, Mango tree, Jack-fruit, etc. Jadab Payeng is concern about deforestation and global warming. He also takes initiative to save tigers.

Mulai is also engaged in dairy farming and agriculture, now there are more than 200 buffaloes and cows. He had lost nearly 100 buffaloes and cows to tigers (from Kaziranga) to the forest. Elephants damage his house several times.

However, Payeng does not grudge that as they served as food for the big cat. He said it was the people who carried out large scale encroachment and destruction of forests, leading to the loss of habitat of the bigger animals and forcing them to prey on animals.

For his outstanding work, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) honoured Payeng on the 'Earth Day'. Sudhir Kumar Sopory, JNU vice-chancellor, called Payeng the 'forest man of India' and a true 'nature scientist'.