Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Transport Minister and film star-turned-politician K. B. Ganesh Kumar has ordered a strict statewide crackdown on the use of illegal air horns in buses and other vehicles, calling them a menace that endangers public safety and adds to noise pollution.

The Minister has directed the Motor Vehicles Department (Kerala) to launch a special enforcement drive from October 13 to 19 to seize and destroy air horns, which are widely used despite being banned.

The Minister has ordered that all air horns confiscated during the drive must be publicly displayed before the media and then crushed using a road roller. Officials have been instructed to conduct checks in all districts and submit a detailed record of the number of air horns seized.

The Minister observed that the

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