{"id":304049,"date":"2018-10-12T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304049"},"modified":"2018-10-12T06:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T06:30:28","slug":"chandigarh-sikh-women-exempted-from-wearing-helmets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chandigarh-sikh-women-exempted-from-wearing-helmets\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandigarh: Sikh women exempted from wearing helmets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304051 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-111420__01-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-111420__01-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-111420__01-457x420.jpg 457w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181012-111420__01.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sikh women in Chandigarh will be exempted from wearing helmets while riding two-wheelers, after the union Home Ministry issued an advisory to the Chandigarh administration to make an exception for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Home Ministry on Thursday instructed Chandigarh administration to exempt Sikh women from wearing helmets while driving two-wheelers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision came after Sikh bodies, led by Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) leader Sukhbir Singh Badal, made a representation to Home Minister\u00a0Rajnath Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Home Ministry has advised the Chandigarh administration to follow the similar notification issued by the Delhi government giving an exemption to Sikh women from wearing protective headgear while driving two-wheelers in the Union Territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 1999, the Delhi government\u2019s transport department issued a notification to carry out the amendment in Rule 115 of Delhi Motor Vehicle Act 1993, making it optional for women \u201cwhether riding on pillion or driving motorcycle to wear a protective headgear\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, this rule was later changed in 2014 when only Sikh women were granted that exemption.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sikh women in Chandigarh will be exempted from wearing helmets while riding two-wheelers, after the union Home Ministry issued an advisory to the Chandigarh administration to make an exception for them. \u201cThe Home Ministry on Thursday instructed Chandigarh administration to exempt Sikh women from wearing helmets while driving two-wheelers.\u201d The decision came after Sikh bodies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":304051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2926,2009,2014],"tags":[1316,5531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304052,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304049\/revisions\/304052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}