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The General Education section and the Motor Vehicles section volition unneurotic instrumentality a ‘Road Safety Cadet’ programme to foster a harmless roadworthy civilization and trim accidents successful the State.
This comes successful the aftermath of a authorities argumentation to marque roadworthy information consciousness portion of the schoolhouse curriculum.
Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty and Minister for Transport K.B. Ganesh Kumar said astatine a property league that the aviator of the programme was successfully implemented astatine John F. Kennedy Memorial School successful Mavelikkara taluk. A passing-out parade of 30 cadets who had completed the grooming volition beryllium held astatine the State-level inauguration of the programme astatine Mavelikkara this month.
In the archetypal phase, the programme volition beryllium implemented successful a prime precocious school/higher secondary schoolhouse successful each acquisition district. Priority volition beryllium fixed to authorities and aided schools.
The programme volition beryllium expanded Statewide astatine the commencement of the caller world twelvemonth successful June.
Each batch of 30 students volition comprise 50% boys and girls each. Fifteen hours of mentation classes, 5 hours of applicable experience, and 10 hours of carnal grooming volition beryllium provided to students.
The grooming volition see beingness information classes, including swimming.
Besides roadworthy information laws, students volition besides beryllium fixed grooming successful trauma care, archetypal aid, and anti-drug initiatives. Technical enactment acquisition volition beryllium provided done Kerala State Road Transport Corporation workshops.
The cadets volition beryllium deployed to modulate postulation successful the vicinity of schoolhouse and relation arsenic information coordinators successful schoolhouse vans. They volition besides assistance MVD officials by visiting mishap sites and analyse causes of accident.
Students who implicit the grooming volition beryllium provided certificates by the Motor Vehicles department.
The authorities is besides examining the contented of providing specified students grace marks.
