NASHIK: The city police have decided to write to the principals of educational institutes, bank managers and government department heads, including the district collector and the civic chief, to now allow entry to helmetless bikers to their premises.
Nashik city police commissioner Deepak Pandey said this will be the new measure that the police would initiate to ensure that riders in the city wear helmets.
The city police have already imposed the ‘No Helmet No Petrol’ rule at fuel stations and have been sending bikers without helmets to counselling sessions. A large number of two-wheeler riders have now started wearing the safety headgear.
“We want every two-wheeler rider to wear a helmet and the police would take various measures to make that happen. Our new drive is kind of a non-cooperation drive. We want all people and all departments to not cooperate with bikers who do not wear helmets. Our aim is to ensure that even if a biker goes to a garage without wearing a helmet, the garage owner should not entertain such a customer,” Pandey said.
Police personnel cannot be present everywhere, but they would make surprise visits to appeal to people to not cooperate with bikers without helmets, said the police commissioner.
The police are in the process of finalizing the terms for the non-cooperation drive against helmetless bikers.
Police officials said all these measures are aimed at reducing road fatalities of bikers.
The city police even launched a helmet-checking drive in the city and a large number of helmetless bikers were sent to the children’s traffic education park every day.
