My journey from a Citizen to Traffic Police Ambassador....

          Hi friends! Just thought to talk to you once more. People always think that we can't access the Police easily. But ask me. I was also a common girl who just struggled to make her life more successful evry time. Wahi regular schedule, go to college, do the NSS work, go to job (part time), come back home, do the household work, take dinner, study and finally to bed! Whooooo.... Quite busy but a simple life. Regular and normal. No exitements and no adventures! Suddenly one day our NSS Programme Officer cum District Co-ordinator Prof. Anis Choudhery, invited me to the ACP Bhiwandi Traffic Office. I had no idea of what's gonna happen there or why we have been called there. There was anxiety and nervousness inside and even a huge confusion- What do we NSS volunteers have to do with the TrafficPolice?? Well left it as it is and reached there with lots of questions and confusions in mind and a horribly beating heart! We had no idea who's the ACP of Bhiwandi Traffic Police.
              Wow.... after entering the office, this was my reaction when I saw the beautifully smiling ACP Rashmi Karandikar Ma'am welcoming us warmly. Iam a girl who never visit police station before this and seeing a lady sitting in the chair of ACP was a real encouraging moment for me. Bhiwandi is a town where ladies are bound to stay in the house serving the family. But when Rashmi ma'am can become an ACP why cant we girls do anything good for the society?

             We discussed the project and understood Rashmi ma'am's initiative. Then we started taking up our tasks with all our volunteers and started moving ahead slowly. slowly and gradually I understood the working of traffic police, their grievances, their enjoyment, their life... and their heart very closely. People always have this misconception that the police is corrupted. But believe me friends its not like that. If we co-operate with them they are the best helpers in the world. As a common citizen I have seen them very closely and its a real beautiful experience being with them! Today my day starts with them and ends with them too.  I take breakfast with them, my lunch goes with them and sometimes the last meal, dinner too! I understand their plight. We fight together, we discuss together, we play together..... Thinking of work? Well, we do all these while working together! ;-)

Traffic Awareness Program

Our volunteers getting ready for the road show!


















Volunteers conducting road show.


















Commuters listening to our volunteers .


















Volunteers spreading TRAFFIC AWARENESS among public !!!

Bhiwandi youth for traffic awareness

Hello everyone! Might be shocked to see a blog for traffic safety! Hey friends, let me tell you, we are too late to realize the rapidly growing number of road accidents. Actually, we all are aware of these accidents but we think very less about it. We see in the television, news papers; hear on the radio and also from our friends about accidents which occur every now and then around us. But still we don't realize the future situation. It has been revealed by the WHO in its report on road safety, that the main contributing factors of road accidents are rash driving, drunken driving, low use of helmets and seat-belts, minor driving, child restraints, etc. Statistics say that every hour 40 people under the age of 25 years die in road accidents all over the world. Road accidents is the second most major cause of death for 5-29 years old people. In India alone, the death toll rose to 14 per hour in 2009 as opposed to 13 in the previous year!
Estimated data says that that near about 1,00,000 people die in India annually. The main victims of these accidents are youths- the supportive age group of the society. Thus, this initiative is taken up by Bhiwandi Traffic Police in co-ordination with the Bhiwandi Youths of NSS, Mumbai University, to aware people throughout, about road safety. This is a program by the YOUTHS and for the Youths. Today, the time has really come when we need to be awaken from our sleep and step ahead to SAVE HUMANITY. We always keepon hearing 'Save Water', 'Save Electricity', 'Save Forest', 'Save Wild life', etc. Have you ever heard, 'SAVE HUMANITY'?
So, come-on lets take up to something new and save humanity for which we are saving all the the resources! So start following the little road safety measures and also ask our friends to do the same. TAKE CARE AND BE SAFE!

Traffic training schools abroad!

Many people may scoff at the idea of attending a four or eight hour course at a traffic school, but in truth, traffic schools are a very important aspect to driver’s education. Usually, traffic school is used as a part of a punishment for breaking traffic laws or engaging in a traffic law violation, but these classes convey an important message overall. These traffic school courses serve as a reminder of the laws of the road and the potential consequences of what can happen when these laws are broken. When some traffic laws are broken lives can be lost.In many states, in order to obtain a drivers license, prospective drivers are required to read the state’s traffic education book, take a class on driver’s safety, and to pass both a written and practical driving test. While many people may think that they are driving experts once they obtain their license, they could not be further from the truth. Many people forget important safety laws and end up required to take a class or two at the local traffic school.Traffic school is not required after a person obtains his or her drivers license, however it can be court ordered or a voluntary event later on. In most cases, people end up in traffic school after they have had an accident or received a moving violation. Accidents and moving violations can potentially risk the safety and lives of others, so traffic school is an excellent way for a traffic violator to be reminded of what his or her actions could do. Many states offer traffic school as a way to avoid getting points added to your driving record and will keep your insurance premiums down. It is the intention of traffic schools to re-educate offenders so that the same mistakes will not be repeated again.