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| Why not hold traffic Police accountable? | | Another life lost to 'matador' terror | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 11: City might have been outraged by the death of another youth, who was killed by an over speeding mini bus in Talab Tillo area the previous day, many believe that this umpteenth incident of its kind in the current year, would fail to shock the insensitive Government and administration out of their atrocious slumber.
Many bread earners of the families are falling prey to dangerous negligence of mini bus drivers blinded by greed of earning few more. If government and concerned authorities did not wake up to the grievousness of the situation, many more precious lives will be lost to the five thousand odd mini buses on the roads of Jammu. While mini bus owners rue hefty bank installments that they have to pay against loans of their financed vehicles, experts opine that series of initiatives need to be taken to discipline the unruly mini buses.
"We had proposed time and again that terminal points need to be made on various routes and a fixed time table needs to be evolved for the mini buses to leave" said a former officer, who has served as SSP traffic in Jammu. "This would help better enforcement because at a given point of time, half of the mini buses would be in the terminals and there would be no dangerous races on the roads" he added. The SSP pointed out that while in most cities, commuters waited for the public transport, in Jammu, mini buses are seen waiting for the commuters at busy traffic junctions and they were stopping in the middle of the road at will. He also confessed that was a need to reorient the permits on different routes as on many city routes.
However, people believe that the mini buses were operating on city road without any regulation or control due to complete absence of urban public transport and a chronically corrupt traffic police which had completely surrendered to the Mini bus mafia. The government initiatives of engaging RITES to prepare comprehensive city mobility plan for capital cities seems to have lost in the oblivion as nothing has transpired on the ground during all these years.
"There is no accountability in such incidents. Why should not the traffic officer of the concerned area be held responsible for any such mishap?" asked Hardeep Singh, a resident of the Talab Tillo where a youth was killed by an erratically driven Mini bus.
The proposals given by the former SSP traffic did not have huge financial implications. More than anything else, they need sensitive polity and a responsive administration, so that precious lives like those of this youth could be saved. |
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