NASHIK: The Nashik police have printed 25,000 booklets on importance of traffic rules and wearing helmets, which would be distributed among bikers who are caught riding their two-wheelers without the headgear and made to appear for the two-hour counselling sessions-cum examination.
Senior police officials said that the booklets would help negligent bikers understand the importance of following traffic rules and the need to use helmets.
The city police has decided to conduct counselling sessions-cum examination of helmet-less bikers at 12 different locations and the bikers would be given the booklets at the sessions.
Though the counselling and tests were to start from Wednesday, it could not get underway owing to continuous rainfall in the city.
ACP Sitaram Gaikwad of the city traffic branch said that the counselling and exams of such bikers could not be taken on Wednesday due to the rainfall. Nonetheless, these sessions would start anytime now.
On spotting helmet-less bikers, they would be made to undergo a two-hour counselling session and appear for an exam on traffic rules and helmet. Further, such bikers would be made to undergo a written test on traffic rules and use of helmet, which they have to pass with minimum 50% marks. If they fail in the exam, they would again have to undergo the two-hour programme.
