PUNE To create street security consciousness amongst college students and get them concerned within the examine, the Pune Regional Transport Workplace (RTO) has now despatched a letter to a number of state and personal universities in Pune district requesting to introduce particular topics as per the course construction associated to street security
PUNE To create street security consciousness amongst college students and get them concerned within the examine, the Pune Regional Transport Workplace (RTO) has now despatched a letter to a number of state and personal universities in Pune district requesting to introduce particular topics as per the course construction associated to street security. RTO has requested to provide choice-based credit score system choice to college students by introducing topics associated to street security.
“Yearly round 1.5 lakh individuals die within the street accidents in our nation and a lot of the deadly accidents are of individuals between 15 to 45 years.
Earlier, even the Supreme Court docket had instructed the College Grants Fee (UGC) to introduce new topics of street security. Some topics are additionally being launched within the Nationwide Service Scheme (NSS) syllabus,” stated Sanjay Sasane, deputy regional transport officer.
“It’s mandatory for kids to get classes of defensive driving, which is the necessity of the hour. Together with the essential street security consciousness and coaching programmes, it’s now time to provide college students particular coaching of their space of curiosity. As an illustration, a pupil learning legislation, could have classes on legal guidelines of driving licence, significance of intervention of automobiles laws for street security. Whereas for engineering college students’ matters on idea of visitors park, sensible metropolis and street security might be given,” added Sasane.
Along with including these topics to the syllabus, the RTO has additionally requested universities and schools to start out their very own studying licence driving check centre inside the school, the place college students might be taught fundamentals of secure driving and street security.
MM Salunkhe, vice-chancellor, Bharati Vidyapeeth college stated, “It’s a nice initiative from the RTO officers and it’ll actually create a way of accountability and new issues might be discovered by introducing such matters in varied programs. We might be learning over the proposal and hopefully from subsequent tutorial yr we are going to introduce a few of these topics.”
