Sunil Gavaskar meets Maharashtra CM Fadnavis on Road Safety
Published - 22 Mar 2018, 05:49 PM | Updated - 22 Aug 2024, 11:50 PM
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar met Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to increase awareness on road safety. Meanwhile, recently Sachin Tendulkar wrote to the transport minister of India about the lousy quality of helmets.
Also, he is organising match to increase the awareness among people. Gavaskar has been an active campaigner for road safety since many days.
Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium will host a cricket match to create awareness about road safety, Maharashtra Transport Minister Diwakar Raote said. Further, it will take place on March 24 and will involve star cricketers.
Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, Ajinkya Rahane, Vinay Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah and some members of the World Cup winning Under-19 team will be in action in the match. The two teams are called the “No Horn OK Please” and “Road Safety”.
“Every year, over 1.5 lakh vehicles meet with accidents,” the minister said. “Gavaskar has associated himself with the road safety campaign to help stop this,” he added.
The former batsman also said the cricket match would help create awareness about road safety.
Gavaskar visited the Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan in south Mumbai, where the budget session of the state legislature is underway and met Fadnavis and Raote.
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