"We have to play a constructive role to make theirs and our lives easier," said Rahul Dravid, the new brand ambassador of Bangalore police’s road safety initiative
The Bangalore police’s road safety initiative now has a new brand ambassador. The first to don the title is none other than The Wall, aka Rahul Dravid.
Mr. Dravid, who has retired from international cricket, is the first campaigner for the police’s programme, Friends for Road Safety. The public interest campaign aims at promoting road discipline and ensuring road safety to prevent accidents.
Constructive role
Showing that he is truly fit for the job, Mr. Dravid started off by drawing the attention of the audience to the role played by traffic constables every day, “doing the thankless job of performing impossible tasks”. He also emphasised on the role of the citizen here. “We have to play a constructive role to make theirs and our lives easier.”
Public support crucial
Admitting that he has often grumbled about the small traffic jams across the city, he said it was “virtually impossible for the police to do anything without public support.”
The idea behind this campaign was to catch children at a young age and impart the knowledge of road safety as they are the future citizens, he added.
Around 300 city schools have enrolled for the road safety and signage training organised every Saturday at Traffic Park.
The campaign was launched during the prize distribution ceremony for students who won the drawing competition on the theme of road safety.
More lined up
Also present at the event were Bangalore city Police Commissioner B.G. Jyoti Prakash Mirji and Additional Police Commissioner (Traffic and Security) M.A. Saleem.
The latter said: “We have done many campaigns in the past like drive against drunken driving, compulsory wearing of seat belts, uniform speed limits for the city, safe route to schools, and they all had good impact on the road users. There are many more things lined up for the future.”
Keywords: Rahul Dravid, road safety
@Mr Aninda
You obviously think you know it better than Mr Dravid, kudos to either your wisdom which you think - because of some evidence - u have acquired or to your nonchalance for the disregard to the genius of Dravid the person, the citizen and the visionary as you obviously dont seem to stress your grey matter enough to try and understand why he would have said what he said despite the obvious apathy you see from the traffic peopl. Let me address
a)parents - you have a point. the so called educated/rich obv dont have any sense of duties towards the country. Dravid can hardly do a thing about it, so he focuses on children, the future.
b)the cops-have u ever thot how mundane and irritating a job it would be to stand in rain/heat/cold and watching automobs run through for a lifejob. The cops definitely need encouragement and thats wht Dravid is trying to do. He knows they sra not perfect but blaming everyone like you and me do everyday, doesnt help.nd thts why he is grt nd v r not
a. Mr. Dravid : Have you seen parents in front of schools and creche's
in Indiranagar Bangalore, park in the middle of the street to drop off
/ pick up their kids? If that is the kind of education we're imparting
to them, whats the point of a good school?
b. Bangalore Traffic Police deserve no recognition for the terrible
job they do everyday. I have come to the opinion they care the least
about traffic.
c. Although it is unfair to blame the cops alone. The traffic problem,
is about the roads, parking, pedestrian spillover as much as it is
about those who manage it.
Bangalore Traffic dept has taken up very good initiative with Rahul
dravid as Brand Ambassador.
Great Job by the Bangalore Traffic Police in having Rahul Dravid as its ambassador . Role models like Rahul Dravid will go along way in creating awareness. Salute Rahul Dravid for taking up this cause .
Kudos also to the Bangalore Traffic Police !!!
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