With the theme of ‘Your Safety, Family’s Safety and Focus on Road Safety’, the 28th Road Safety Week commenced by flagging off a Helmet Awareness Rally at Motilal Nehru stadium by DIG Raman Singh Sikarwar on Monday.
The aim of the Road Safety Week is to make aware the citizens towards traffic rules and decreasing the number of accidents, deaths and injured in Bhopal district.
Helmet awareness rally started from Motilal Nehru Ground and passed through Roshanpura square, Apex Bank square, Board Office square, Old Jail trisection and culminated at Motilal Nehru Ground.
Traffic police have appealed to the citizens to follow traffic rules and wear helmet while riding a two wheeler and safe yourself from accidents.
On the occasion, SP (HQ) IP Arjaria. SP (South) Bhopal Siddhartha Bahuguna, SP (North) Bhopal Arvind Saxena, ASP(Traffic) Sameer Yadav, ASP Zone I Rajesh Chandel, ASP (HQ) Shalini Dixit, senior police officials, police personnel and citizens were present.
During the Road Safety Week from January 9, 2017 to January 15, 2017, awareness programme in Sagar Public School was conducted in which around 600 students participated.
ASP Sameer Yadav shared important information regarding traffic rules and traffic management. Videos related with accidents were screened. Under traffic awareness programme traffic police provided traffic rules to the commuters at Roshanpura square. At Bharat Talkies square traffic police and pollution control board department conducted checking of vehicles. Out of 110 vehicles checked 6 were fined and a penalty of Rs 16000 was collected.