Eid undoubtedly is for entertainment but it does not give a license to youth to carry out immoral activities in parks and gardens under full public glare on a scared occasion like Eid Ul Fitr . The reports about immoral activities and stunt biking in parks and gardens going viral on social media sites on the eve of Eid Ul Fitr are really alarming and rather a wakeup call for both the people and as well as law enforcers . Though it is a dereliction of duty for law enforces to allow such immoral activities in parks and gardens and henceforth they are not at liberty to allow the youth indulging in immoral duties go unpunished. It is for the parents to restrain their children from using motor bikes for traveling to gardens and parks for entertainment on occasion like Eid Ul Fitr as it finally turns out to be an occasion of stunt biking for youth. The law enforcers too are as such duty bound to keep vigil on increasing trends of stunt biking which does not only put the lives of youth to risk but also unprecedentedly increases the intensity of social crimes in Kashmir. Since police in early summer last year also noticed that stunt biking becomes a means to attack even women and children for the bikers even during the evening hours when victims hardly find rescuers on the roads to save them from the attacks of stunt bikers. Though onus of the stopping the stunt biking on the roads lies on traffic police but it is an irrefutable fact that the onus of stopping this bad trend lies more on the parents and less on traffic police. While it for the traffic police department to check the driving licenses of youth tending to perform stunt biking and punish them as per rules on finding them driving motor bikes without proper driving licenses, the parents too owe bigger explanation for allowing their children to use motor bikes without driving licenses even for routine travelling not to talk of stunt biking. Unfortunately a bad trend has developed among the Parents in Kashmir who without any resistance give into their children’s demands and buy bikes for them even if they are underage and don’t have driving license in hand. Parents giving in to such demands are not just risking lives of their children but also immensely contribute to growing waywardness among youth in Kashmir.
“It is for the parents to keep their children away from suicidal tendencies like stunt biking by not giving in to their demands for bikes. Raising traffic police barricades for checking driving licenses of youth won’t reduce as much the increasing intensity of bike riding among youth as would the role of parents for whom the priority should be safety of their children and not their travel conveniences”.
Parents taking a lame excuse that they give bikes to children for their travel to tuition centres forget the fact that bikes they give to their children not only drive them to death but also spoil their future as well. Better it would be for the parents to ask their children to use public transport for reaching schools, colleges and tuition centres instead of giving them bikes which drive them to death and spoil their future as well. While parents can deny their children the facility to buy bikes for going to schools, colleges and tuition centers, the schools and colleges can deny even admissions to students using bikes during the day time and similarly traffic police can carry out drives for checking driving licenses of students outside the entrance gates of schools and colleges. License checking by traffic police would by all means reduce the intensity of stunt biking if civil society groups also organise social awareness campaigns against the use of bikes for travel parks and garden on the eve of occasions like Eid and Baisakhi. Finally it is for the parents to keep their children away from suicidal tendencies like stunt biking by not giving in to their demands for bikes. Raising traffic police barricades for checking driving licenses of youth won’t reduce as much the increasing intensity of bike riding among youth as would the role of parents for whom the priority should be safety of their children and not their travel conveniences.
