Proposal to promote rly study submitted

LUDHIANA: To spread awareness on railway safety, authorities have submitted a proposal to the Union Education Minister to include a study about tracks and safety rules in the school curriculum. Officials hope to bring down the accidents on railway tracks that happen due to negligence. Authorities added that commuters have become used to trespassing and jump tracks to save time.
Officials have demanded that subjects like environmental education should contain lessons on rail safety and students should be encouraged to use over-bridges and should be careful when driving over crossings.
The divisional railway manager of the Ferozepur division, Vishlesh Chaubey, said that teaching students at an early age would help them become law abiding citizens.
Railway authorities had collaborated with around 1,000 schools in Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar, under the Ferozepur division and officers visited these schools for the purpose. Street plays were also organized at the railway stations for
the public.
In the last two years, over 2,000 people have died on railway tracks and railway officials? attempts to spread awareness has yielded no
results.