NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 4 What Mohit said about traffic rules — In-text Question

Book page 67 Updated on2026-09-19

Q1.
Mohit said, “I think people don’t follow traffic rules, we learned about them in our earlier class”. What do you think about what Mohit said?
Answer

Mohit is right, and he has found the real problem: the trouble is not that people do not know the rules — it is that they know them and still do not follow them.

Look at what any of us can see on the road outside school.

  • People cross wherever they are standing instead of walking twenty steps to the zebra crossing.
  • Riders keep the helmet hanging on the handlebar instead of on the head.
  • Vehicles do not slow down in front of the school, even though the sign says to.
  • Cars and autos stop right across the gate, so children have to walk out into the middle of the road.
  • People look at a phone while riding, or take three children on one two-wheeler.

Why do people break rules they know?

  1. They are in a hurry. Following a rule costs a minute, and they think the minute matters more.
  2. They think nothing will happen to them. “I have done it a hundred times.”
  3. They copy others. When everyone is jumping the signal, one person waiting feels foolish.
  4. Sometimes the road makes it hard. No zebra crossing, no footpath, no place to park — so people do the wrong thing because there is no easy right thing to do.

Sample answer: “I agree with Mohit. We learnt the traffic rules in Class 4 and everyone in our class can say them. But outside our gate I see the same rules being broken every afternoon. So knowing is not enough — we have to actually follow the rules, every time, even when we are in a hurry and even when nobody is watching. And we can help by reminding the grown-ups at home politely: my father now wears his helmet because my sister and I asked him to, every single day, until it became his habit.”

Why the reminder from a child works: A traffic policeman can stop a rider once. A child in the house asks the same question every day — “Papa, helmet?” — and that is what turns a rule into a habit. This is one of the few things a ten-year-old can do that actually changes adult behaviour.
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