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Campaign against honking
By Saniya Surana
A five day, anti-honking campaign was conducted during the month of January. It was a successful launch by the Interactors of Bala Vidya Mandir, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar. On Jan. 21 during the morning peak hours from 8.20 am to 9.15 am. The participants held placards and distributed pamphlets to create awareness about the benefits of anti-honking. The same exercise continued in the afternoon between 3pm and 4 pm. This campaign, on the same lines continued through to 28th January.   

This is what Mr. Shibu, the managing director of Force1 Guarding Services and the one who has initiated this anti-honking campaign in the city has to say, about the campaign.

On day 2, the campaign was even more visible and effective in terms of the considerable reduction in the discriminative of horn. It was nice to see the students encouraging themselves and getting excited when they realised that they were part of the change that society required.  

On day 3 and 4, It is indeed very exciting to see these students respond to the Anti- Honking campaign, having their novel slogans and I must dutifully report that, there has been a significant reduction in the use of indiscriminate horning and thus giving a lot of peace to the surroundings of Bala Vidya Mandir School , Gandhi Nagar, Adyar. 

On the last day of the campaign, it was nice to see that Interactors wanted to continue with this, but their exams cut short the joy of, they being involved in such a novel exercise. As the first phase of this Campaign ends, we found that on the first day, there was some resistance from the Honkers, and by day 5, the children who travelled in those vehicles were the catalysts, who ensured the drivers don’t honk at all.
 
 
Posted on: 06-03-2009
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