Bankura cops reach out to school kids to propagate Safe Drive, Save Life

Considering that creating awareness among students yield the best result, policemen from different police stations in Bankura visited schools in the district to create awareness on "Safe Drive, Save Life" and to avoid spreading of rumours.

Both the Kolkata Police and the state police had taken the initiative to reach out to students with messages to check road accidents. The decision to spread the messages through school-goers were taken as the police consider that it is easier to reach more and more people through children.

Citing an example, a police officer said: "During the Road Safety Week, we had found that people start following traffic rules once it is being told to them by a school-goer and they might never forget the message that they have received from a child."

Moreover, a school-goer can narrate the same after going back home what they will pick up during such campaigns in schools. So at a time, one school-goer can spread the messages on road safety to at least four to five members of his or his/her family. At the same time, messages get spread further when they go to attend their tuition classes or discuss the same with their friends in the locality.

The Bankura Police have taken up the opportunity to reach out to as many as students as possible. They have created awareness on road safety and urged them not to allow anyone of their family members to violate traffic norms.

It may be mentioned that rumours had led to violence in Basirhat sub-division and its adjacent areas. Subsequently, the police had initiated a campaign to avoid spreading of rumours mainly which is taking place through social networking sites. Chief

Minister Mamata Banerjee had also criticised attempts to

create violence in the state by spreading rumours.

So the police had also found creating awareness among school-goers to check spreading of rumours was working wonders.