32nd Nat’l Road Safety Month concludes in Jalandhar

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, February 17

The city police commissionerate on Wednesday concluded the 32nd National Road Safety Month conducted under the theme “Sadak Suraksha Jeevan Raksha”.

A traffic awareness rally was also organised in this regard at BMC Chowk. Students and staff members of various government schools participated in the rally and distributed phamplets on road safety among the commuters.

The rally was flagged off by Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, City Commissioner of Police, Jalandhar, and he urged all resident and motorists to consider it their responsibility to follow the traffic rules while driving.

While making an appeal during the rally, the school children and women teachers were also holding various slogans, placards, banners and pamphlets to sensitise the commuters. The rally was concluded at BMC Chowk.

The traffic police department including, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Traffic Police Gagnesh Kumar, ACP Traffic Harvinder Singh, Inspector Ramesh Lal, Inspector Kundia Devi, Inspector Amit Thakur, ASI Jasbir Singh, ASI Narinderjit Singh, ASI Baljit Singh and others were also present during the occassion and later offered mementos to the school principals.

Afterwards ASI Shamsher Singh and ASI Ramesh Kumar of Education Cell of Traffic Police continued to apprise people about the traffic rules and stated that seminars on the same would be conducted regularly. The road safety month was reportedly started on 18 January.