An eye check-up camp was organised on Tuesday for drivers of auto-rickshaw, Ape auto-rickshaw, mini buses and Tata magic vehicles at Nadra bus stand under the 26th Road Safety Week.
In the camp around 130 drivers participated and got their eyes tested. The eye check up camp was organised with the support of Sewa Sadan hospital, Bairagarh. Eye test of the drivers was conducted by team of doctors from Sew Sadan.
‘Yatayat Rath’ was taken out and using Public Addressing System messages to encourage following traffic rules were disseminated. Video clippings carrying messages of importance of following traffic rules and benefits of following traffic rules were screened.
Under the supervision of Additional Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Shalini Dixit, training programme for the drivers was organised at Police Training and Research Institute (PTRI) in which around 175 driver and conductors were present in the training programme. The participants were encouraged to follow traffic rules and behave in a decent manner with the passengers.
Traffic police Bhopal organized public hearing camps at Bairagarh and 10 number stop and discussed problems faced by the citizens. The citizens were requested to follow traffic rules and suggestions to improve traffic management system were discussed.
Around 4175 students of JB Pant Higher Secondary School Swadesh Nagar Ashoka Garden, Government Sarojini Naidu Girls Higher Secondary School Shivaji Nagar, Government Hamidia Girls Higher Secondary School Fathegarh, Government Girls Higher Secondary School Jehangirabad, Mansarowar School Kolar, Nutan Subhash School, Father Angel School Western Central Railway Employee Welfare Society Higher Secondary School Railway Colony and Government Mahatma Gandhi Higher Secondary School were trained on traffic rules and signals using video clippings and replied to the queries raised by the student.