In a bid to generate awareness among the students, Delhi Traffic Police organised a road safety awareness summer camp on Friday at Traffic Training Park, Baba Kharak Singh Marg.
Commissioner of Delhi Police Amulya Patnaik who was also the Chief Guest encouraged the students to obey the road safety rules as it is one of main component of nation building.
“Organising Road Safety Camp of schoolchildren is one of the most outstanding initiatives by the Delhi Traffic Team. Such camps can prove to be very beneficial for the students, who in turn will sensitize their peers and parents to follow traffic rules, “We should take a pledge to obey traffic rules, as it would not only contribute to better traffic management in Delhi, but road discipline would also contribute to nation building as one of components,” said Patnaik.
More than 2500 students from various schools of Delhi enthusiastically participated in the ten day camp that was organised at four different parts of the city i.e. Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Roshnara Road, Punjabi Bagh and Bal Bhawan from 21st May to 15th June 2018.
“The camp was very informative and we learned a lot about traffic rules and road safety, fire safety, first aid, disaster management, self defence etc. We also got the chance to learn web designing through which we created messages and posters. We have decided to participate next year also,” said a group of students.
Competition such poster making, drawing on road safety were organised for the students at the event. Each student got certificate of participation from the Commissioner of Police.
“To give the practical knowledge to the students we took them field to select intersections where they assisted Traffic Police in traffic regulation using hand signals,” said the Officials.
The event also witnessed the presence of senior police officials such as Special Commissioner of Police (CP) traffic Dependra Pathak, Joint CP traffic Garima Bhatnagar and Joint CP Ajay Chaudhary.