Chandigarh college girls rally for the helmet

Having completed 50 days of Chandigarh traffic police’s initiative of ‘Helmet Pehnao, Beti Bachao,’ on Wednesday the police department held a two-wheeler rally at Post graduate government college, Sector 11. The rally, which was participated by 200 girl students from five colleges of the city including, PGGCG-42, Dev Samaj college of education-36, Government College of Arts, Chandigarh, bedsides PGGCG-11.

Wearing white T-shirts, inscribed with the slogan of ‘Helmet Pehnao…’ 100 girls behind the wheel, followed by 100 as pillion riders, took off as a rally on the city roads, from PGGCG-11. Though an initiative of the UT Traffic police, SSP Traffic, Shashank Anand chose to stay out of the rally, contending to watch as a bystander. Leading this rally of girls instead, was Jagdale Nilambari Vijay, who is the first woman SSP of Chandigarh. Anand was heard motivating the girls by saying, “The message of wearing helmets for safety must reach every woman. Being a man, I don’t hesitate saying that even if one woman’s life is lost in a road accident due to not wearing a helmet, it is a loss to the nation.”
Says Inspector Sita Devi from the traffic police, who is handling the initiative on ground, “This rally was part of the awareness drive for girls to wear helmets for their own safety, that we have been holding since nearly two months. I think we have done quite a lot of work on ground to sensitise women on importance of wearing helmets. Hopefully, Chandigarh women have got the message now and will abide by the rule.”