Delhi Traffic Police’s new initiative to hold summer camps for young students during their summer vacations has received a great response. According to top officials, a lot of parents have been coming forward to avail the free workshop for their kids and most of the batches are already full. A first-of-its-kind initiative by the traffic police is to apprise kids of the traffic rules and road safety.
Scheduled to begin on May 18, the five-day training camps are aimed to impart knowledge to kids about the traffic rules, road safety norms, road signs, signals, road markings etc. Not only that, the course will also train the kids in self defence, disaster management and first-aid.
“Train the children when they are young and they will never forget,” Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Muktesh Chander said, adding that the workshops will be conducted in the traffic training parks of all the ranges.
“With five simultaneous batches of 50 students each in the five traffic training parks, we are aiming to train around 3,000 kids over the two months of their summer vacations. The training camps will be completely free of cost, so we hope that people will make the most of it. We have been receiving a good response and most of the batches are already full,” said Muktesh Chander.
The training camps will be held on weekdays at 9.30 in the morning and students from Class VI to class XII are eligible for the same and can apply on first-cum-first-serve basis. Apart from the free training, the students will receive daily refreshments, set of safety literature, geometry boxes and other necessary articles apart from certificates on their fifth day of training. The training will involve manual traffic drill, painting competition, quiz competition and nukkad nataks, apart from lectures and other practical training sessions.
With traffic violations, road rage and other road crimes on the rise, this first-of-its-kind initiative by the Delhi Traffic Police aims to make a difference at the grass root level. “If we train these three thousand kids this year, maybe they will talk to their parents and their friends and this can then go on from there. And then there is next year as well. We hope to continue with this exercise,” said Chander.