Road Safety Week

        Road Safety Week is celebratedin the month of January every year in India. This year it was celebrated from 11th January to 17th January, 2017.Department of Civil Engineering of G H Patel college of Engineering & Technology,Vallabh Vidyanagar (A Charutar Vidhya Mandal Institution) took an initiative of spreading awareness regarding Road Safety. As a part of Road Safety Week celebration two activities were included out of which one was a Role Play regarding Road Safety performed by students of 3rd Year Civil Engineering Department. The other activity was a presentation on Road Safety Awareness given by Nihar Shah and Prachi Pinara from 3rd Year Civil Engineering Department.Road safety week is celebrated with the great joy and enthusiasm every year in India at many places such as Delhi, Mumbai,banglore, Vadodara and etc. People are encouraged about how to drive on road by organizing variety of programmes related to the road safety. During the whole week celebration of this campaign, variety of educational banners, safety posters, safety films, pocket guides, leaflets on road travelers. They get motivated about the road safety while travelling on road means having planned, well organized an d professional way travelling. People who travel in unprofessional way are requested to use road safety measures and follow traffic rules by giving them roses and chocolates.The theme of celebrating Road safety week was performing some short plays to convey an important message of life and at a same time encourage people about Road safety. The studentsof 3rd year civil engineering performed firstly at Dakshinamurti school at 10:00 AM and about 300 students attended the program and then at GCET campus at 4:30 PM with the Head Dr. Khadeeja Priyan and the faculty members of civil engineering department.The topics included were Drink and Drive, Girls not wearing helmet, Spitting, Awareness in people, Comparison between India and USA and at last a short story of an innocent man.

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Department: Civil Engineering