A meeting of road safety week held in Collectorate conference hall in Lohardaga on Thursday. Additional Collector Ranjeet Kumar Sinha presided over the meeting.
He reviewed the decisions taken in the last meeting of road safety held last month. District Transport Officer Amit Besra said that 30th road safety week will be observed from February 4 to February 10. The theme of the road safety will be ‘Jeevan Raksha’ (Safety of Life).
The programme on February 4 will start with road safety oath to be taken by officials and students.
A video of the theme will be shown in seven different place of the district. School and college children will take out awareness rally.
People will be made aware of the importance of helmet and other safety measures. Day to day programmes were fixed to mark the week. DSP Ajay Kumar, Civil Surgeon Vijay Kumar, DEO Ratan Kumar Mahawar, representatives Nagar Parishad, Hindalco and several NGOs were present in the meeting that decided various programs to mark the week to aware people on road safety.