A letter written to Anand Mahindra, Chairman of one of India’s largest vehicle manufacturing firms has now gone viral. The letter talks about how the 11 yr old loves to go on long drives, but is upset with the amount of honking people do on our roads.
While Traffic and RTO authorities have tried hard and failed to curb the honking menace, Mumbai-based Mahika Mishra has come up with a plan. Her hand written letter to Anand Mahindra, has also touched a chord with the twitter fans as everyone wants a solution and bring an end to this menace.
This 7th grade student writes how this honking is injurious not only to the environment as it causes noise pollution but that is also raises stress levels of the driver and others on the road. Read the full letter below.
Mahika Mishra states that this persistent honking is used by Indian drivers in the hope that it will make cars in the front move faster. However, this is not the real reason that horns were invented. It is meant as a safety device to warn other road users of their presence. But over the years, we seem to have lost the true purpose of honking.
The girl has a trick which will help in bringing an end to this menace. She states that there should be some technology in a car which will allow a person to honk only a limited number of times in a certain time frame. As per the letter, the ideal time frame would be 5 times in 1 hour. Another idea would be to program the car horn in such a way that drivers cannot use it for more than 3 seconds at a stretch.
Anand Mahindra tweeted this letter on Thursday and since then the tweet has been re-tweeted 2,497 times and has received over 15,000 likes. Anand Mahindra along with all the Twitteratis have welcomed this idea, which draws attention to the fact that what educated adults blatantly ignore can be curbed by the idea of a small child.
SSP of Traffic Police, Chandigarh too has replied to the tweet. This is what he has to say – “The young girl has raised a very imp issue. We at #ChandigarhTrafficPolice are running #MakeChandigarhHonkFree campaign to make the city sound beautiful as well. More than 50,000 stickers pasted on steering wheels of vehicles to forestall drivers from honking mindlessly.”
