The unique initiated by the District Transport Office Ranchi and Ranchi Police to reduce the number of college students driving two wheelers without licences received an overwhelming response on the very first on Friday. large numbers of students made a beeline at the DTO office for getting their Driving licence (Dl) in the three days special drive.
Ranchi Police and the transport office have jointly started the three-day campaign for issuing licence to the school kids as well as college goers on Friday. Under this campaign, for school students above 16 years licences issued are for the without gear two wheelers and for above 18 years students two wheelers with gear and four wheelers Dl is being issued.
District Transport Officer (DTO), Ranchi Rajesh Kumar, who conceptualised the plan expressing his happiness said, “We are receiving good response from the students and it is can be seen with the crowd present outside the office. We have received the forms of around 200 applicants on the very first day of the drive. Dl to around 60 students had already been issued.”
20 Dls for non-geared two wheelers, around 35 licences for geared two wheelers and five licences for four wheelers have been issued so far.
Notably, the traffic cops intensifying the ongoing crackdown on the violators of the motor vehicles regulation all over the city particularly among the college going students is considered to the major reason behind the huge rush for obtaining Dl among the students.
“The crowd outside the DTO office is the result of our ongoing strict checking on the law offenders from past few months. More than 2,000 students have been slapped fine of Rs500 for driving without license and around 100 students
vehicle have been seized for continuously violating the
traffic rules. We are happy that our effort is showing positive results,” said Traffic SP Rajeev Ranjan.
Meanwhile, the students who were standing outside the DTO office have also agreed to the fact that the traffic
cops stern action had drawn them here.
Ruchika Mittal who has taken admission in St Xavier’s College said, “Ranchi Traffic cops are showing no pity over the offenders. A couple of days back one of my friend was charged Rs200 fine for not producing her Dl. I do not want to undergo the
same situation.”
Another student of Marwari College Varsha Jaiswal said that last time she had to pay heavy fine for not showing her Dl. She scares that time the consequences can get tougher. “I do not want to be behind the bars for my offence. It is better to have it than to suffer,” added Jaiswal.
Besides, the school management is also extending their all possible help in
making the drive popular among the students.
DAV Gandhi Nagar Principal SK Sinha said, “We are encouraging students of Class XI and XII to get their Dl from the ongoing drive. Our teachers are helping them to get information to all their queries related to this.”