Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
With an aim to rigorously implement special drive against errant riders, City Traffic Police has adopted a new mechanism of swapping police personnel among its eight zones. The idea is to increase effectiveness of concentrated action and special drives and instill discipline among rule violators.
A police officer said that lower rung cops used to develop friendly relations with locals including autorickshaw drivers due to working in one particular area for longer period. Such repeat offenders used have ‘connections’ within police rank and politicians. These persons are nuisance for the police staff as they always call their bosses whenever one tried to penalise them for violation of rules. This interference and pressure from politicians used to put pressure on on-duty staff affecting streamlining of traffic and issuance of challan.
In many cases, autorickshaw drivers and illegal passenger transport vehicles get the benefits of ‘good relations’ with the police officials. This was due to frequency of their contacts that over the years developed into friendly relations and this used to result in negating the police pressure as action against such elements used to become vitiated. This is the state-wide practice and hurdles faced by the policemen during their special drives. Hence, Nagpur Traffic Police introduced new plan and turn around the system.
According to the new system, the zone officials are getting instructions of special drive about their movement to other zone in morning hours. Following the instructions, the officials launch a drive at selected place with a posse of police personnel so that an impact of action would be made on rule violators.
Recently, traffic police have implemented special drives against bullet riders, illegal passenger transport vehicles, without helmet bike riders and imposed fine on thousands of persons.
Interacting with The Hitavada, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Gajanan Rajmane informed that some traffic violators were getting favour for their contacts due to their regular interaction with staff of respective zone. “The new system was introduced to sensitize the people about traffic rules,” he said and added that everyone would get a challan for violation of traffic rule in the city.
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