CISCE initiative to spread awareness on wearing helmets

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jul 18 2016 | 10:07 PM IST
Days after Kolkata Police asked petrol pumps not to sell the fuel to motorbikers without helmets, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) here has taken an initiative to spread awareness among students commuting on two-wheelers.
"We are requesting school authorities to issue a circular requesting parents to ensure that students who come riding motorcycles come wearing proper size helmet," Secretary of Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate, West Bengal Chapter, Nabarun De told PTI today.
"We have verbally asked every school to start talking to students about this. Soon a circular will be issued from the Association to individual schools regarding this," he said.
"We have noticed that road accidents have recently gone up and most of them involve those riding motorbikes ... So we thought of starting this initiative to ensure that children do not ride pillion without helmets," De, also principal of Central Modern School in the city, said.
According to him campaigns by schools on the issue are already on for some time.
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First Published: Jul 18 2016 | 10:07 PM IST

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