Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chandigarh police to adopt its first-ever Traffic Education Park in Punjab and Haryana. Present at the MoU signing ceremony were Anil Kumar IAS, Home Secretary, Chandigarh Administration, R P Upadhyaya, Inspector General Police, Union Territory, Chandigarh and Yadvinder S. Guleria, VP (Sales & marketing), HMSI.

Speaking on the occasion, Guleria said, “As a leading corporate citizen, Honda understands that its responsibility goes beyond production of two-wheelers to expand safe riding environment in India. The basic issue is not only infrastructure but mindset of road users. After empowering a phenomenal 60,000 participants within 1.5 years through our four existing traffic parks, Honda is committing itself to make safe riding an everyday habit of two-wheeler riders in Chandigarh.”

Honda is set to makeover the Chandigarh Traffic Park in Sector 23-A and create a specially designed, protected environment within the 15 acres. There it will provide ‘Lifetime Safety Education’ for all age groups – starting from school children to adults with a special focus on females riders.

Some of the highlights of the program include expert Honda safety instructors to educate new riders on correct riding techniques, Honda’s Proprietary riding trainers will aid people above 13 years of age to experience, virtually, over 100 possible dangers on road.

Honda has been pushing safe riding initiatives in India since 2001. In 2012, the company adopted its first traffic park in Jaipur. This was soon followed by Delhi. Later it inaugurated two new traffic parks in Odisha at Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. In just one and half years, Honda has trained nearly 60,000 people of all age groups at these Traffic Training Parks.