Array of activities planned to mark road safety month

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 18

The virtual inauguration ceremony of the National Road Safety Month has marked the onset of a series of activities to be held in the district. Participating in the inauguration ceremony, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori on Monday roped in all key departments and assigned them various duties about organising several events ranging from January 18 to February 17.

The DC said the Road Safety Month would be observed this year with the theme of `Sadak Suraksha Jeevan Raksha’ under which a series of activities would be held in the district.

He said the month-long awareness drive entails activities such as the rectification of black spots, removal of extra vegetation along the roads, and holding of health checkup camps at the block, subdivision, and district level for taxi drivers, school bus drivers, and three-wheeler drivers.

Similarly, awareness activities such as walkathon, helmet awareness rally, pedestrians’ safety day, pasting of reflectors on vehicles, awareness camp on women safety in public and transport, checking of pressure horns, and lectures on road safety to students in schools and colleges would also be organised, Thori added.

He said all have been asked to appoint nodal officers to ensure the smooth execution of this month-long activity plan and no laxity in this mammoth exercise would be tolerated.

The Deputy Commissioner further mentioned that the district administration had already identified 45 black spots in the district and an amount of Rs1 lakh was issued by the administration from CSR funds to rectify these spots.