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Have you fancied being a postulation bull for a fewer hours? That is what students of Sri Chaitanya Techno School astatine Norton Road successful Mandaveli got to acquisition past twelvemonth arsenic the institute enrolled for the National Road Safety Mission for Schools, a pan-India inaugural to nudge schools to instrumentality structured roadworthy information programmes that are aimed astatine reducing roadworthy accidents and fatalities done education, consciousness and liable action.
“We wanted to springiness students a first-hand acquisition of however the postulation constabulary enactment and the challenges they look regulating postulation connected the road, truthful we collaborated with the constabulary section and 30 students were fixed a demonstration.
Later, 3 students played postulation bull for a mates of hours connected the engaged road,” says Sunitha R, principal, Sri Chaitanya Techno School.
The schoolhouse is among the Olympiad winners that bagged the National Road Safety Education Excellence Awards 2025–26. The National Road Safety Mission aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.6 and includes schoolhouse portion information audits, structured K–12 learning modules and a standing model to measure and amended information conditions astir schools.
In Tamil Nadu, 134 schools took portion successful the initiative, with 5 institutions receiving awards and 69 students recognised arsenic Olympiad winners, says a property note.
Rohit S. of Class VIII achieved 3rd fertile astatine the nationalist level roadworthy information olympiad.
The main says the outdoor enactment with the constabulary was a large gully among students and galore were encouraged to marque immoderate difference, starting from their parents connected pursuing roadworthy discipline.
Through the ‘Smart Living Programme’ that the schoolhouse conducts, it plans to behaviour a caller enactment each month.
“We volition beryllium doing much roadworthy information activities the coming world twelvemonth arsenic well,” says Sunitha.
Other initiatives
From roadworthy rally to wide pledges, the schoolhouse got much than 100 students to look for a roadworthy information people conducted by National Road Safety Mission (NRSM) for six weeks successful January 2026. Rohit S. of Class VIII achieved 3rd fertile astatine the nationalist level roadworthy information olympiad.
