Truckers Utsav

Business Standard, Aug 03 2007

This was a festival for truck drivers and cleaners which had less to do with song and dance and more to do with the distribution of condoms and counselling on HIV/AIDS under the Transport Corporation of India Foundation's HIV/AIDS prevention programme titled Project kavach. The distribution was done at the roadside clincs set up by the Foundation, the social arm of Transport Corporation of India Ltd. The clinics are called Khushi clinics Inaugurating the festival, Mr. D P Agarwal, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Transport Corporation of India, said the initiative targets truckers as they are more vulnerable to AIDS due to the travel involved in their work