As part of ongoing celebration of 28th Road Safety Week-2017, a painting competition was organized by Motor Vehicles Department today at Boys Higher Secondary School Doda. A large number of students from different schools of the district participated in the competition with zeal and enthusiasm and painted their views regarding the various aspects of road safety.Momin Islami of Shaheen Public HSS Doda was adjudged as winner whereas Iqra Balwan of Shaheen Public HSS Doda and Hamid Indrabi of Chinab Valley Public School Doda were awarded 2nd and 3rd prize respectively.Among the students who participated in the debate competition, Dheeraj Rakwal of Shaheen Public HSS Doda, Sofiya Ashraf and Amaan Batt of Chinab Valley Public School Doda were adjudged as 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.ADC Mohammad Hanief Malik, who was chief guest on the occasion, stressed upon the participants to observe strict adherence to traffic rules and appease the public to brief others also on various road safety issues.ARTO emphasised upon the need for adopting necessary road safety measures for averting road accidents and loss of precious life. He also appealed the people particularly drivers to avoid rash driving, overloading, drunken driving etc to reduce the number of accidents.Commanding Officer 10 RR Atul Vikram Singh, Principal HSS Boys Doda Tanveer Ahmed, ARTO Zubair Ahmed, DySP Traffic Aftab Bukhari, Cultural Officer Salah-ud-din, AD planing Ranjeet Kumar besides others were present on the occasion.Later, trophies were distributed among the winners and participants by the chief guest.