Ranchi Police’s 8-day drive to bring order on the streets of Ranchi kick-started in a grand style on Saturday as all stakeholders—administration, NGOs, clubs, public sector undertakings and associations—took part in the first of its kind initiative of the scale ever conducted in the Capital, spreading a sense of satisfaction and hope to succeed among those central to the drive.
The drive aims to express the necessity of following laws and its positive effects on the lives of people because of better traffic sense among public thus translating the process of transformation in on road etiquettes into a continuous and ongoing process.
A massive rally was taken out from the launch venue, JAP-1 ground at Doranda, to the Morhabadi to sensitise people about the drive. The programme will be conducted for 8-day and it will touch three aspects of traffic—engineering, education and enforcement—throughout the exercise. “On the launch day I am optimistic that the objectives will be met and we hope that the message reaches to everyone,” said SP-Traffic, Karthik S.
The launch event participated by officials of police department, NGOs, representatives of four FM Stations, transport department officials—District Transport Officer and Regional Transport Officer—children of 16 schools, representatives of PSU’s—MECON, Central Coalfields limited and SAIl—besides eight telecom operators and office bearers of Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce of Industry. Officials expect that the number of people would swell as the drive will progress. “We would appeal to the stakeholders to organise pledge ceremony from their end,” added the SP-Traffic.
Children of St Michael School organised road shows to send across the message of becoming a well-mannered citizen and underscored the significance of following traffic rules. Other activities includes propagating IVR (Interactive Voice Response) messages, jingles on radio probably in the voice of children appealing to their parents to wear safety gear before driving, informative conclaves by small groups for auto-drivers and other stakeholders of public transport system, rolling out vehicles (coined message-on-wheels) to disseminate information regarding traffic rules through participative activities like quizzes.