No takers for helmet rule on petrol

 No helmet but yes for petrol 

The Slogan is good but implementation part is tough. The hyped ‘No helmet and no petrol’ campaign by the transport and police department has failed to force the bike riders to wear a helmet and also owners of the petrol pumps to refuse giving petrol to the riders not wearing helmets.

As usually, petrol pump owners are giving petrol to whoever is coming to their pump for petrol though they are not wearing helmet. 

The state government is planning to implement No Helmet and No Petrol across the state.

An owner of a petrol pump of Adilabad town said they can’t refuse to give petrol to the bike riders for not wearing helmets because as there was no legislation to back up their stand in implementing the rule’.

The need of the hour is creating awareness among the people about the importance of wearing helmets to avoid fatalities and to succumbed to injuries sustained in a road accidents and making quality helmets available in the market at affordable prices for the benefit of the riders and convince of the users.

Also sensitizing school children and college going youth about the importance of their family members wearing helmet so that the former could influence their elders about wearing helmet.    

It was common scene of biker riders without wearing helmets being filled petrol in their bikes at petrol pumps. Neither police nor Transport officials are there to check the implementation of rule.

Now, the police and road transport officials are planning to impose fines on the bike riders not wearing helmets based on their images recorded in the CCTv cameras set up at various cross roads in towns in the district.

It is surprising that the implementing departments themselves have failed to ensure that their own staff should wear helmets while riding bikes.

On June 17, Superintendent of police Vikram Jeet Duggal gave Rs 5 lakh cheque  to K. Rajitha, wife of the constable K. Srinivas,29, who died in a road accident while returning to Dahegoam of Adilabad to join the duty from Karimnagar on December 9. 

The constable met with an accident riding a bike without wearing a helmet.

AR constable Jadhav Adarsh, 28, died in road accident while riding bike without wearing helmet at Indravell in October,2015.