PUNE: The traffic police have designed a module to make school and college students aware about road rules.The department, along with Road Safety Patrol and citizen volunteers, plans to reach out to 600 educational institutes in the coming days. Deputy commissioner of police (traffic) Tejaswi Satpute said, “The volunteers and our personnel have started conducting the sessions. They are visiting at least 10 schools and colleges daily to conduct the sessions. We have so far covered at least 100 institutes.”She added, “A syllabus has been prepared for the sessions and the volunteers have been provided with supporting videos. We are conducting the sessions for students of standard VII and above.”ACP (traffic) Devidas Patil said five citizen volunteers have been selected from each traffic division and they were trained recently at the Shivajinagar police headquarters. “We have distributed the schools and colleges in each division among these volunteers,” he said.Rajan Nair, chief executive officer of Sunrise International School Pune, said, “We will have 15 volunteers from our side to conduct the awareness sessions across the allotted schools and junior and senior colleges.”Vivek Bhalchandra Deo, who is associated with road safety patrol, said, “It is difficult to change the habits of the elders. But we can inculcate the habit of following traffic rules among children so that they abide by the regulations in the future.”

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