Plan to hire staff to expedite entry of accident data on govt portal
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Bhubaneswar: In a bid to enhance the efficiency of accident data management, the transport department on Monday urged the home department to allocate dedicated personnel in police stations for the timely entry of crash-related information into the govt's electronic detailed accident report (e-DAR) system.
The transport department highlighted that the manpower shortage in police stations is hindering the prompt uploading of essential data onto the e-DAR platform. "Investigating officers (IOs) are struggling to input data into the e-DAR application promptly due to limited manpower. We propose to fund the recruitment of one home guard per police station across the state, solely for data entry tasks in the application.
Their monthly salaries will be covered by the road safety fund," stated transport secretary Usha Padhee in her proposal.
Padhee urged the home department to initiate the recruitment of necessary number of home guards for the purpose and to inform the transport department about the annual funding requirements. The transport department said the e-DAR application consists of four main modules: police, transport, highways and emergency care.
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The system's primary goal is to streamline accident-related data to optimise resource allocation, expedite insurance claims processing, and support more informed policy-making.
According to govt guidelines, following an accident, the investigating officer must visit the scene and input specific data into the e-DAR application to generate an accident ID. A system-generated FIR number is then linked to the case.
"Recently, the ministry of road transport and highways introduced a cashless treatment scheme for road accident victims, offering up to Rs 1.50 lakh in designated hospitals. The scheme mandates the creation of an 'accident ID' by the IOs for victims to access cashless treatment. Due to the police's inability to enter data into the e-DAR system because of staffing shortage, victims are encountering difficulties.
The issue was raised during a high-level govt review meeting on July 9," said another transport official.
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