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Amitabh to promote road safety

Amitabh Bachchan offers to promote road safety in Maharashtra

Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan offered to promote road safety awareness here in Maharashtra on Friday. Addressing citizens of Thane on the conclusion of the month-long road safety awareness drive by the Thane city police, Bachchan said, "When I can promote tourism in Gujarat, I can very well promote road safety awareness in Maharashtra," he said. In his speech, he came down heavily on the present system of issuing driving licences and said that while a driving licence is available in countries abroad only after a vigorous test and classes for about nine months, in India, it is issued within minutes.