OREANDA-NEWS. December 23, 2011. Road safety is the duty of all  individuals who uses the infrastructure build in our country. Keeping in mind  the same view and to create awareness regarding correct usage of Zebra  Crossing, a campaign was initiated by SAFE-Tata Steel inside the plant  premises, at the corporate office premises and outside the plant (near traffic  light of GORC canteen) today at the early hours of morning. Students from  various educational institutions like ADL Sunshine School, Sakchi; Dayanand  Public School, Sakchi; K M P M Inter College, Bistupur and Graduate School  College for Women, Sakchi endeavored to make the event a success.

It was observed in the  past that many citizens of Jamshedpur while driving do not follow the rules of  road safety properly. According to the trend, the pedestrians should be given  the first right to cross at the Zebra Crossing. However, it was observed in  most of the cases neither the pedestrians use the Zebra Crossing accurately nor  the moving vehicles slow down / stop to allow the pedestrians cross the road.

Today's campaign  focused to create awareness among members from General Office AIC and  Procurement Division at the Zebra Crossings located right inside General Office  premises which includes the Zebra Crossings in front of ITS, Business Center,  Corporate Center, and Commercial Center. This activity was taken up actively  inside the plant premises (inside works) by the JDC Security Works & FB. It  was really inspiring for the employees to see young and bright children from  the schools undertaking the initiative of SAFE and spreading awareness on road  safety by holding placards and distributing leaflets containing the Do’s and  Don’ts messages.

To promote road safety  further, General Office AIC, JDC Security & FB, SAFE and Procurement  Division is launching a Road Safety awareness campaign from 22nd -  24th December, 2011, in association with District Traffic Police.  The whole campaign was driven under the leadership of Col Ramnik Khanna, Chief  of Security, Tata Steel along with convener SAFE, Ms Chandra Sharan, Ms  Swastika Basu, Head, LEPAC and with the active support of Mr Bijen Pattnaik of  Procurement Department, Tata Steel. Support received from District Traffic  Police is commendable.