Rajyotsava special: Learn Kannada with 5,000 autorickshaws

‘Learn Kannada’ hoardings have been installed on 5,000 vehicles in the city of Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: Special Editing

This Karnataka Rajyotsava, the Bengaluru Traffic Police has launched a new initiative and set up “Learn Kannada” boards with simple Kannada sentences as transliterations to chat with drivers in 5,000 autorickshaws.

BTP has recently partnered with ‘Auto Kannadiga’ Azzu Sultan, who rose to fame with his Kannada learning boards on his autorickshaw.

“This Kannada Rajyotsava, BTP is proud to take a small step towards promoting Kannada language. Look out for ‘Learn Kannada’ messages on 5,000 cars in the city. Embrace the language, embrace the culture,” Joint Commissioner (Traffic) MN Anucheth posted on X on Friday.

“This is a positive way to help people connect with auto drivers and learn Kannada too. We aim to install these boards in 50,000 cars by the end of the month. BTP has funded the initiative and will provide these boards to auto rickshaws free of charge,” he said.

Mr. Azzu Sultan, whose initiative has now expanded to cover thousands of cars in the city, said he is happy and grateful for this collaboration with the Bengaluru Traffic Police. “Working together, we made some changes to my initial template and even added driver responses to it. This will help passengers understand what the driver is saying. We’ve had a good response so far,” he said.