nashik the children traffic education park set up in order to bring about an attitudinal change in the younger generation so that roads are free of mishaps in the future has trained over 21000 school students since july 2015 under this initiative started by nashik first organization school children and adults get free training on traffic safety the participants are taught traffic rules and are given indepth knowledge and awareness about road safety experts at the park guide them on how to prevent road accidents and be safe on road by using powerpoint presentationsabhay kulkarni chairman of nashik first said colleges banks government offices and private companies can organise training for their students and employees by registering or booking a slotover the past 22 months nashik first has organised nearly 400 sessions for school students and about 100 for adults kulkarni said road accidents are rising everywhere in the country our aim is to tap students who will be driving vehicles in the next few years if we teach them road ethics early we are sure they will carry it forwardhe added during training children are shown how accidents happen they are also given some material which they take home once a child is convinced about road ethics he will naturally tell his parents thus we are not only training the students but indirectly the knowledge is being passed on to their parents and other members of their familythe park functions on a 3 acre plot allotted by the nashik municipal corporation nmc at tidke colony it was set up at a cost of rs 35 crore and supported by corporate companiesstudents and adults are trained with the help of models of road signals boards containing traffic signs like one way no entry uturn zebra crossing among othersmodels like bus stop overbridge are also set up at the traffic park for better understanding of the students this facility is also used to train new drivers of the state transport department a traffic park official said that over the past couple of years they have trained over 160 bus driverswe are also working as a pressure group to force the government to put up needed infrastructure on the roads so that accidents are reduced said kulkarnithe problem is that there is no coordination between the civic administration which puts up the infrastructure and the police department responsible for implementation of traffic rules over the past many years we have been following up the issue of setting up a traffic cell which will have an engineer who has thorough knowledge of vehicular traffic we hope that our efforts will soon bear fruit he addedmeanwhile as schools are closed due to the ongoing summer vacation nashik first has started imparting traffic training to industrial workers