DGP inaugurates e-library, book fair
Tribune News Service
Panipat, August 18
Director General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor inaugurated a state-level seven-day ‘Panipat Mahotsav-Book Fair’, Road Safety Knowledge centre and Foreign Language Teaching centre at SD PG College here on Saturday. He inaugurated the road safety knowledge centres in around 100 schools and colleges in the state through video-conferencing.
The seven-day event is being organised in collaboration with Haryana Police, District administration, Municipal Corporation, District Transport Department, Women and Child Development Department, Panchayat Department and Indian Oil, Haryana State Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department and AYUSH Department.
ML Dahariya, Executive Director, IOCL Refinery; DC Virender Kumar Dahiya, SP Ajit Singh Shekhawat and Lokendera Singh, ADC Pankaj Yadav and others were present during the programme.
The members of SD Education Society — president Anoop Garg; Satish Chandra, chairman SDVM, HUDA; Mahender Aggarwal, treasurer Vishal Goyal and principal Anoopam Arora — were present during the programme.
Addressing the gathering, DGP Kapoor said as many as 1.68 lakh people lost their lives in accidents in the country in a year. Most of the accidents involved two-wheelers or pedestrians. The main reason behind the accidents was not wearing helmets, lack of knowledge and/or not following the traffic rules, Kapoor said.
Emphasising the need to follow traffic rules, the DGP said accidents were decreasing in foreign countries but not in India.
DGP Kapoor also emphasised the importance of books. He said that true knowledge comes from books and that is why the department favours the library culture. Every person should read at least one good book in a year, he said.
