bhopal traffic education will be introduced in the cbse curriculum state boards and colleges from this academic session according to directions given by the department of higher education under the union hrd ministry madhya pradesh is one of the states which have contributed to preparing course syllabus the department under the hrd ministry on july 15 last year had written letter to all the educational institutionsboth colleges and schoolsacross the country to introduce road safety lessons in the curriculum alarmed by death due to road accidents the department had initiated the move save life cycle founder and traffic expert from bhopal prafull joshi is the author of a book that would be on traffic education he said already the road accident death figures in the state are alarming if we take the data of last year for the first three months the statewide figures are almost double youngsters need to learn traffic rule first follow them they need to learn driving skills traffic sense and public discipline joshi said vijay david dsp ptri police training and research institute said traffic education would be imparted as part of social science in classes v and viii in the state board mpbse but the course should ideally be class v onwards the institute is in charge of the contents of the book on traffic that has been forwarded by the police headquarters to the higher education department for approval rajasthan and west bengal are the two other states which have contributed too he added a small child also walks on a road he too should be made aware of the rules beginning this april we would conduct training of trainers tot sessions once a month for private and government school teachers david said dr shikha rastogi principal of world way school said a subject on traffic education would be introduced from the next academic education for the primary and middle classes 612 it has become mandatory to educate children on road safety as they start driving twowheelers at an early age school education department principal secretary was not available for comment