Rajasthan to Set Up Road Safety Clubs in All Schools

The Rajasthan education department has directed all government and private schools across the state to establish Road Safety Clubs, as part of a broader push to make road safety a mass movement rooted in the classroom.

The Director of Secondary Education, Sitaram Jat, has issued formal instructions to all joint directors, under which schools will recruit five to ten students each as road safety volunteers. These student volunteers will not only follow traffic rules themselves but will also carry out awareness activities in their homes and surrounding neighbourhoods.

In the Kota district alone, more than a thousand government and private schools are expected to form such clubs.

Under the initiative, students will be educated on wearing helmets, fastening seat belts, observing speed limits, refraining from using mobile phones while riding or driving, and understanding road signs and signals. Traffic police will visit schools regularly to engage directly with pupils, explain the real causes behind road accidents, and illustrate the consequences of even minor lapses in road discipline.

The scheme comes against a backdrop of persistent traffic violations in urban Rajasthan, where two-wheeler riders frequently go without helmets, seat belts are widely ignored, and reckless speeding and stunting remain common among young people. Officials believe that instilling road safety habits at school level can meaningfully reduce accident rates in the years ahead.

Asha Mandawat, Joint Director for the Kota Division, said that when students begin following traffic rules themselves and encouraging their families to do the same, the message spreads rapidly from household to household. She noted that traffic police had visited schools in a similar capacity the previous year and that the effort would be repeated and expanded under the new framework.

The broader aim, officials say, is not merely to inform children about rules but to develop in them a genuine sense of civic responsibility — making the next generation of road users a disciplined and safety-conscious one.