<div><font color="Navy">Making helmets mandatory for Sikhs driving two wheelers and bikes for safety aspect?
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 18:15
By Tajinder Singh- Punjabnewsline.com
CHANDIGARH: The issue of making helmets mandatory for Sikhs while driving and riding on two-wheelers and super bikes has been debatable but with the changing times there had been voices from certain quarters even within Sikh Community that safety should be given top priority rather than other considerations on the basis of gender, religion and so on.
Presently, we are living in items of rapidly changing technology and due to this, the two-wheelers are being manufactured with the latest equipment and technical knowhow pushing up the speed limits gallop a speed in the range of 100 to 150 kilomtres per hour. And some of the high-powered super bikes hit a massive speed even beyond 180 kilometres per hour.
Manpreet Singh, an engineering student says that though putting on protecting headgear or helmet while driving bikes and two-wheelers always has been a sensitive issue but he said that personally I feel that It is religion for those who oppose it and safety for those who support it. But if the things were so simple then I would not have been writing this. Should a Sikh wear a helmet while driving? This is a million dollar question and if somebody was to preach this basic safety measure then he might find a million dollars reward imposed on his head by religious red-necks and vote-bank hungry politicians.
When Delhi government tried to make crash helmets mandatory for women two wheeler riders, DSGMC president Paramjit Singh Sarna argued against this decision by saying that
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Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 18:15
By Tajinder Singh- Punjabnewsline.com
CHANDIGARH: The issue of making helmets mandatory for Sikhs while driving and riding on two-wheelers and super bikes has been debatable but with the changing times there had been voices from certain quarters even within Sikh Community that safety should be given top priority rather than other considerations on the basis of gender, religion and so on.
Presently, we are living in items of rapidly changing technology and due to this, the two-wheelers are being manufactured with the latest equipment and technical knowhow pushing up the speed limits gallop a speed in the range of 100 to 150 kilomtres per hour. And some of the high-powered super bikes hit a massive speed even beyond 180 kilometres per hour.
Manpreet Singh, an engineering student says that though putting on protecting headgear or helmet while driving bikes and two-wheelers always has been a sensitive issue but he said that personally I feel that It is religion for those who oppose it and safety for those who support it. But if the things were so simple then I would not have been writing this. Should a Sikh wear a helmet while driving? This is a million dollar question and if somebody was to preach this basic safety measure then he might find a million dollars reward imposed on his head by religious red-necks and vote-bank hungry politicians.
When Delhi government tried to make crash helmets mandatory for women two wheeler riders, DSGMC president Paramjit Singh Sarna argued against this decision by saying that
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