Parmesh S Jain
In an effort to manage the traffic and free flow of traffic outside the schools and educational Institutions in and around the city,the traffic police on Wednesday launched a special drive to rope in security guards to the institution concerned to train them to manage the traffic flow effectively.
Security staff of many school in the Traffic West division have been trained on traffic control and signals to handle the traffic and ensure the students and staff are safe .
The police also conducted awareness drives on parking of private vehicles,school vans and buses leads to congestion.
The drive was launched following a series of complaints on the traffic police social media account that the motorists are affected due to traffic jam in front of the schools across the city during the peak hours.
The police have advised the school staff and security personnel to ensure that no schools vehicles are parked outside or around an educational institution’s premises except when students are getting boarding and getting down for few seconds .
The security guards have been trained to manage the traffic and ensure that there are no jams outside the school and ensure free flow of traffic, a senior police officer, said .
However though many schools also started following the instructions,the police are not focusing on the other issues of blatant violations of traffic rules.
Majority of the parents and even the school staff do not wear helmets or seat belts when they come to pick up their kids.
However senior police officers opined that there main focus is to ensure smooth flow of traffic and de-congestion.
Ensuring road discipline may end up traffic chaos and the whole purpose of free flow of traffic on peak hour may backfire .
Drive against footpath encroachment :
Meanwhile the Rajajinagar police on Thursday booked a mechanic and a push cart vendor for encroaching the footpath and endangering the safety of pedestrians .
The accused Noushad Baig,41 and Mohammed Saifulla,44 were arrested for repeat offence as even though they were booked earlier under section 283 (Causing danger,obstruction or, injury in any public way or line of navigation)and given warning twice, they continue to encroach the footpath by parking the vehicles and keeping their wares .
The duo was later released on station bail and warned to confiscate the vehicles next time if they continue to violate,BR Ravikanthe Gowda, Joint Commissioner of Police ( traffic), said .
