As a part of Road Safety Week, the petroleum outlets in steel city for the third consecutive day refused fuel to helmetless riders. There were many two-wheeler riders who were refused the fuel at the petroleum outlets in Bistupur and other places in the city.
The police have made mandatory for petrol pumps not to sell petrol to two-wheeler riders without helmets and drunken four-wheeler drivers. But people of Jamshedpur especially youngsters are not happy with the decision of police to enforce 'no helmet, no petrol' policy. According to them, police never enforced traffic rules strictly but now they are passing the onus on petrol pump owners. The officials recently said that petrol pump owners have been told not to sell fuel to two-wheeler riders without helmet and drunken four-wheeler drivers.
Meanwhile, the district administration flagged off a motorcycle rally as a part of the ongoing Road Safety Week celebrations. Deputy Commissioner Ravi Shankar Shukla and other officials flagged off the rally which moved through the city streets to spread awareness among the people regarding road safety.
The DC said the purpose of road safety week celebration is to make people aware of their duties on road.
He said road mishaps could be prevented only by following traffic rules. He appealed to drivers to use helmet and seat belt without fail.
A local resident said that police failed to perform their responsibility so they are thinking to enforce such rules and put the onus on petrol pump owners. She said that it's the duty of traffic police to check people, who are drunk or without helmet.
The rule should be implemented for those people who consumed liquor while driving not for the one who are without helmet.
Kalpna Das, a student, said that implementing such rule will create a lot of problems for the people who are in emergency. "Such policy has exposed failure of the police to perform their duty. It is not the duty of petrol pump owners to solve traffic problems.
Public will only follow the rules if police itself will follow them properly," he added. Another local resident Ravindra Bisht said that implementing such rule will create chaos on petrol pump premises.
"It is the duty of police to punish people who are violating traffic rules not the duty of petrol pump owners. When police will start doing their job properly people will definitely support them in every situation," he added.