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New Delhi : The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is all set to launch the 30th National Road Safety Week from February 4, 2019, with a host of initiatives planned for generating awareness and sensitising people about safe road usage. At an event at Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, Rajghat, New Delhi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, and Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari will flag off a motor car rally to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
The rally will travel through places historically associated with Gandhiji, both in India, as well as in Bangladesh and Myanmar, and will pass through Sabarmati, Porbandar, Dandi, Yerwada, Sewagram, Jabalpur, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Chauri Chaura, Champaran, Shantiniketan, and Kolkata in India before travelling to Dhaka in Bangladesh. It will conclude at Yangon in Myanmar on February 24, 2019, covering a total distance of 7,250 km. The rally is part of the year long celebrations to commemorate the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi in India and across the globe initiated by Government of India on 2nd October last year, according to a PIB release.
Apart from the rally, February 4 event will also see the launch of Dash Board for Road Accident Data of India and its states. The Society of Indian Automobile Industry will also declare 2019 as the Year of Road Safety on the occasion to underline its commitment and support for promoting safety on Indian roads.
The occasion will also see initiatives being taken to involve people in promoting the cause of road safety. Amartra Chitra Katha will release a set of comic books on road safety that it has published. The Indian Road Safety Campaign of IIT Delhi will launch an Inter Collegiate competition on the issue. In addition to this, letters will be issued to 135 NGOs for conducting road safety programmes. Retro Reflective Stickers on ‘Sadak Suraksha Jeevan Raksha’ will be launched on the occasion.