looking into growing road casualties in the State, a drive is underway to educate school children on road discipline.From this year, the School and Mass Education Department has decided to include road safety in the syllabus of school children. To complement the initiative, Sankha Dhwani Rasta Surakhya Samiti has started forming road safety club in the city as well as in Khordha district.
BJ English Medium School has been chosen first to have this road safety club in the school for the students here. School principal JK Mohanty and Samiti president and former IG of Police Kulamani Deo signed an MOU in this regard. The objective of the pact is to hold continuous road safety sensitisation programme in the school throughout the year.
On the occasion, a road signage board was dedicated by the Samiti for the school children to know various road sign on the road. The students were shown a road causality video. Among others, Bhubaneswar RTO lalmohan Sethi, Subrat Kumar Nanda, Dr Manoranjan Dash and school officials and teachers were present.