Nepal Police, on Thursday, officially revealed the ‘Road Accident Information Management System’, in an attempt to make traffic police paperless and to keep regular documentation of the accidents in the central database of the Nepal Police headquarters.

The system was launched by Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Raghubir Mahaseth amid a function at the Nepal Police headquarters, in Naxal.

According to traffic police officials, the new system will keep the record of accidents from the traffic police who have been given access to the system.

In the first phase, 34 traffic police office in the Valley and 30 traffic police office in the Kathmandu-Birgunj section will be given access to the system.

“The traffic police offices, which have been given access to the system, are provided with tablets for filling the description of the accidents. After filling the description, it will be uploaded to the central database,” Senior Superintendent of Police Basanta Kumar Panta, chief of Metropolitan Traffic Police Division, told the Post.

As per the police, a traffic police will provide basic details of accident along with the reason, place, time and damage caused by it in the description. The details will be then used by the police headquarters to list places as accident prone area. Similarly, preventive measures will be proposed to prevent accidents with the help of the details about the reason behind the accidents in respective areas.

During the launching event, Minister Mahaseth said that the government is undergoing homework to improve the technical part of traffic police and to make its work paperless.

“The government is also undergoing necessary discussions to form a council for road security. The council will work to make the road safer for all by analysing the problems and giving suggestions,” Nepal Police quoted Mahaseth as saying.

The system which has been given access to only 64 traffic police office in the first phase is said to be expanded to all the traffic police across the country soon.

A total of 532 cases of accidents is said to have been stored in the central database during its testing phase from November 21 last year.

Likewise, Inspector General Sarbendra Khanal said that the Nepal Police was forming special plans to improve the traffic woes in the Valley.

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division had introduced a three-month pilot project to improve the condition of roads and footpaths in the Valley by collaborating with local government and other concerned authorities.

Similarly, Nepal Police have also launched a ‘traffic communication app’ to check if the drivers of night buses are being changed during the course of long journey to ensure the buses are being driven by alert, attentive drivers.