Noida: In a bid to improve road safety, the Gautam Buddha Nagar district is enforcing a new campaign: No Helmet, No Fuel. Starting January 26, 2025, bikers without helmets will be denied fuel at petrol pumps. No Helmet, No FuelFrom January 26, 2025, no two-wheeler user will be eligible to draw fuel for his vehicles at any petrol pumps in Gautam Buddha Nagar without helmets. A new rule referred to as No Helmet, No Fuel apparently ordered to promote helmet usage and avoid road accidents in the district.District Magistrate Issues Directive Gautam Buddha Nagar District Magistrate Manish Verma issued the directive after the transport commissioner of the Uttar Pradesh has given directions over this. This rule will be followed strictly by all the petrol pump owners from Republic Day, the operators have been informed. Petrol Stations Get Prepared for Awareness DriveBefore the campaign, the fuel operators have been asked to install No Helmet, No Fuel hoardings in their stations. The campaign will be followed till January 26, so that the two-wheelers get used to the new rule in store for them.Transport officials are seriously making an attempt and installation of CCTV cameras all over at the petrol station is going all out to keep an eye there on the conformity. All these steps are making sure that no two wheeler individual is bypassed and helmet riding becomes common. Transport CommissionerThe Transport Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh appealed for the requirement of the rule so that fatalities on roads could be checked. He presented this view when he spoke at a gathering of RTOs and ARTOs and spoke of how there had been an alarming rise in accidents through two-wheelers and that there was a necessity for helmets to be worn.This measure has already been communicated through letters to owners of all petrol pumps, advising them to comply with this decision before a week lapses. Generally, people in general are not quite agreeing on this decision but the authorities sound hopeful that at least it can save some lives.
