Sunday, November 28, 2004

I received another mail from Rakesh Jaggi who had earlier lamented that media has not taken a note of the role played by traffic police during the trade fair. After reading our last Monday’s cover story he said, “I feel it is encouraging for all of us to note the good work of the authorities in regard to the traffic movements and compliment the same. It is very important for all of us to come forward and applause the good work of police as most of the time we are criticising them for their acts without analysing the situation. I am not trying to be biased towards the police force but feel that we should not lose any time to praise and reward their good work for us.“If we all collectively decide to implement the traffic movement formula of trade fair on most of the roads of the city, then very soon we would have the fruitful results. However, it may look very theoretical but one must not forget the positive and effective results in and around the Trade fair. “I would like to suggest that the local authorities must make available some of their Employees for few hours in a week from all ranks in rotation to assist the Traffic police as this type of operation would require a good amount of man power. Also, there should be a system to reward these traffic volunteers for their work and assistance. This type of reward would not only encourage the volunteers but would be good motivation to general public. We all try to take advantage of our system by parking our vehicles on the main roads or controlling the good part of the roads for our personal or commercial use giving a blind eye to the sufferings of thousands of our fellow road users. If the authorities take this matter seriously and implement this in phases then very soon our Delhi would be surely a role model of the Traffic for the whole world.”Well, a welcome advice but only good if it is implemented. I just hope this rule is at least applied on the roads where Metro construction is taking place.

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