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| GAD uses stick for employees; spares Mantris, Santris, Babus | | Safety belts in vehicles | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 19: Having forgotten that Ministers, MLAs, MLCs and MPs are also part of the State Government, General Administration Department (GAD) of Jammu and Kashmir Government has singled out employees and strictly asked them to follow Central traffic rules.
This does happen often in J&K that those who violate rules are spared and those who are made conscientious efforts to follow rules are told to follow them strictly. Observers maintain that brute violators of traffic norms mostly include Ministers, their relatives, children and friends along with MLAs, MLCs and MPs. They are followed by police officers, their children and their relatives along with Journalists and well-connected business houses.
But the GAD order has singled out employees and asked them to follow norms. In an order issued on September 17, GAD has directed all the officers and their drivers to wear seat belts. They have left out tractor owners while asking all others to wear seat belts. The department has asked the employees to wear seat belts since not wearing the same amounts to violation of rule 125 (A) of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules-1989 which prescribes for providing seat belts in all the vehicles which are used for movement.
The order has made no mention of Ministers, MLAs, MLCs and MPs who are otherwise known for being serial offenders and brute violators of the motor vehicle rules. The order is also silent about the Ministers, their relatives, children and friends along with Kith and Kins of MLAs, MLCs, MPs and ex-Ministers. They are followed by police officers, their children and their relatives along with Journalists and well-connected business houses.
Observers maintain that all float rules and norms but when it comes to penalisation, traffic police finds it easy to challan commoners, Government employees and Journalists but prefers giving special privilege to the VIPs and VVIPs. What makes this mockery of system painful is the claim of Traffic Police Department of having doubled the challan money from what it was in the previous year. They do not realise that increase in revenue due to penalisation of violators actually means that people care little about violation of traffic norms and pay without learning anything in return.
Even traffic cops who challan hardly inform the commoners about rules and regulations. Observers maintain that GAD should have issued a strict circular asking all the VIPs and VVIPs to wear seat belts while directing the traffic police cops to spare none. But who has the prowess to take on the might of VIPs and VVIPs. So better is to penalise the commoners, the employees who work for more than 14 to 15 hours and who are running the entire Government machinery.
Observers see this circular as routine reply of some Home Ministry directive over the issue of wearing of seat belts. They maintain that GAD should better re-draft the circular and includes Ministers, MLAs, MLCs and MPs asking all of them to wear seat belts. Otherwise, they should immediately withdraw the circular and let the traffic police do its job. Observers maintain that it is VIPs and VVIPs who have created this culture of violating norms and set regulations. |
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