Road safety awareness campaign conducted in Ooty

The Nilgiris District Collector, Lakshmi Bhavya Tanneeru, on Friday flagged off an awareness campaign at the Udhagamandalam Railway Station, to mark National Road Safety Month in the district.

The Nilgiris district administration said in a press release that the National Road Safety Month was celebrated every year from January 1 to 31.

Organised by the Highways Department, the awareness rally that started at the railway station, proceeded through Ettines Road and terminated at the ATC Junction. Over 200 students from the Unique Public School in Udhagamandalam, more than 100 members of taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers’ associations, 50 staff from the Highways Department and over 100 road workers participated. The participants distributed pamphlets on road safety to taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers and the public.