Sashastra Seema Bal will observe ‘Road Safety Week’ in its area of operation to aware border people and personnel of the force. Office of the director general, Sashastra Seema Bal has issued specific directions to organise “Road Safety Week” by each units.
During the week, units deployed on Indo-Nepal, Indo-Bhutan border and other areas will organise camps in their area of responsibility to educate people on traffic rules, first aid, health checkup of drivers and training on various mode of safe driving. Road safety is a very important issue on Indian roads.
It is a well known fact that in India on an average 16 people die every hour on Indian roads. In year 2014, out of 1232 personnel of CAPF who died on unnatural death. Thrity two per cent of them died in road and rail accidents.
To curb the rate of road accident this drive of SSB for the border population as well as own personnel will definitely help the society.