Kolkata;No helmer-No Fule rule implemented in the city

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Jul 11 2016 12:16 PM
Prachi

KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is taking extensive measures to ensure road safety and today enforced the NO HELMET, NO FUEL rule for bikers in Kolkata after launching it in Kolkata.

A letter has reportedly arrived at the Siliguri police commissionerate from the chief minister's office with instructions to take strong action against traffic rule violators in order to make roads safer in Siliguri and its adjacent areas.

The notification also says that those who violate the rule shall be charged under Section 188 with a jail term of up to six months.

Days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed concern over motorbike riders without helmets, the Kolkata police issued a notification stating that motorcyclists will not be allowed to buy fuel if they are not wearing helmets.

Two wheelers account for 25% of total road crash deaths. A study by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences says 46 percent of riders without a helmet die of injuries when they skid and fall, while the corresponding number for those dying despite wearing a helmet is 12 percent. Many other State Govt.

like Odisha,Kerala,Hyderabad,Jammu and Kashmir,And some MPdistricts have encouraged the movement of 'no helmet no petrol' to tackle the number of road accidents deaths in the states.

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