About 50 women were trained at village Dukhri in Ambala under the banner of ‘सफ़र’ or ‘Safar’/'SUFFER' Campaign running in the city with the aim of sensitizing women with respect to the measures they can take as individuals, in both cases of while they are driving cars as "drivers" or as "companions to the persons driving" to ensure safe ride.
Women either as drivers or as co-drivers exercise a very pivotal role when it comes to safe driving practices, avoidance of distracted driving and training the children as well for sober driving.
Various points were discussed on how women can play their significant part in decreasing the no. of accidents by not calling and devouring a person while seated behind the wheels of any vehicle, by strictly not talking for longer period of time during hours of long drive because it creates pressure in the mind of the driver to split his/her concentration into two tasks simultaneously which in 20% of the cases leads to car crash or head on collisions.
During the session, Sadhvi Gopika Bharti Ji, the devotee disciple of His Holiness Ashutosh Maharaj Ji, founder/mentor of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan and the facilitator of Bodh, [Drug Abuse Eradication Program] explained “How drinking and driving ruins not only an individual but how it tragically damages the destiny of an entire family”, thus it is necessarily important for women to ensure how one drives sober, be it a woman herself or one's intimate on the steering wheel. In order for briefing the matter before them further on how not only Drinking and Driving must be prohibited with priority but multitasking while driving is also very harmful, an open activity was conducted to illustrate upon how while multitasking, it is difficult to concentrate on any of the one thing and hence, one must avoid texting or calling someone who is driving in order for safeguarding the complete attention of that driver on road.
The participants well understood the implications of any sort of negligence on road and thereby quickly grabbed the tips given to them on road safety measures. All of them walked back home with a pledge to contribute their bit wholeheartedly in every possible manner in making the roads of Ambala Drug Free and Safe.
