To spread awareness towards wearing helmet by two-wheeler riders, Inspector-General of Police ,Bhopal Range, Yogesh Choudhary and Bhopal (Urban) in-charge Srinivasa Varma participated and headed a motorbike rally on the occasion of the inauguration of 26th Road Safety Week on Sunday.
The bike rally started from Boat Club and culminated at Moti lal Nehru stadium at lal Parade ground. The rally started at gate number 6 of CM house and passing through All India Radio, Polytechnic, Banganga, Rohanpura, Rangmahal talkies square, TT Nagar police station square, Apex bank, Mata mandir, MANIT square, Kolar trisection, Rajiv Gandhi square, Bittan market, Subhash School trisection, 7 no stop rotary, district court, old jail trisection, police control room, Vijay dwar and lal Parade.
While inaugurating the Week, Inspector General of Police Bhopal zone Yogesh Choudhary said two-wheeler riders should wear helmet and four wheeler drivers should buckle seat belts while driving, for safe and secure traveling. On the occasion, DIG Bhopal (Urban) Srinivasa Varma said that the number of accidents, persons injured during accident and casualties in the past two years has decreased which is result of awareness and alertness dissemination of traffic rules among the commuters.
He detailed regarding the traffic rules and regulations and encouraged to follow them. He appealed that the citizens should make aware themselves about the traffic rules and regulations for safe ride and reach safely. At the programme, Irfan group performed street play and Qawwali programme was organised with the aim to spread awareness. Police band performed at the occasion on Boat Club. Additional Superintendent of Police Shalini Dixit provided details of the programmes which would be organised during the 26th Road Safety Week.
BMC Commissioner Tejaswi S Naik, Superintendent of Police Bhopal (North) Arvind Saxena, Superintendent of Police Bhopal (South) Anshuman Singh, Bhopal RTO Ajay Gupta, Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Shaildendra Chouhan, Additional Superintendent of Police Sandeep Dixit and member of Bhopal Citizen forum Sanjay Patel.