Pappu Zebra Road Sense Campaign kicks off in Orissa
- Project creator
- Bikash Mohapatra
- Date
- Friday, 14 January 2011
Pappu the Road Sense Zebra, the popular road safety mascot, was formally welcomed to Orissa by Sri B. K. Sharma, Police Commissioner, Bhubaneshwar-Cuttack at the DAV School, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar on January 04, 2011, during the 22nd National Road Safety Week, witnessed by hundreds of cheering and excited school students, in the presence of Mrs. Ritu Arora, Addl. Commissioner of Police and Sri Himanshu Lal, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneshwar. Campaign” in Orissa in making the roads safer for the coming generations. It is a bottom-up approach for inculcating and developing a sense of responsibility about various aspects of road safety.
The launch event was attended by a range of popular Oriya film-stars including Anubhav Mohanty, Arindam Roy, Babushan, Aakash, Pintu Nanda, Sritam Das, Anu Choudhary and Ushasi Mishra, and sports personalities Dilip Tirkey and Anuradha Biswal.
By means of the innovative Pappu Zebra campaign, police authorities seek to impact schools and residential communities throughout the twin cities area on road safety matters. In the next two months, Pappu Zebra road safety clubs will be organised in 50 schools in the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack area, impacting about 50,000 school students on road safety matters.
The Pappu Zebra Road Sense Campaign in Orissa is a joint programme of Forum for Prevention of Road Accidents, Orissa and Police Commisionerate, Bhubaneshwar-Cuttack, in association with OrgPEOPLE, Kerala. The campaign in Orissa has been inspired by the successful Pappu Zebra road sense campaign of Kerala Police, being implemented since June 2009.
