The Orissa High Court has asked the Commissionerate police to expedite its drive to check drunken driving and make the initiatives more result-oriented.
It was revealed at a meeting held under chairmanship of Development Commissioner and Additional Chief Secretary R Balakrishnan at the State Secretariat on Thursday.
In respect to the HC orders, the Development Commissioner directed to intensify the drive and make the initiatives more result oriented.
Balakrishnan too asked concerned departments to step up the mobile checking units and highway patrolling and make the actions visible on the roads. He directed the police, Excise and Transport Departments to take team actions in missionary spirit to check this menace.
It was decided that NH patrolling teams and traffic police would keep strict vigilance on drunken driving and take strong actions against the offenders.
It was revealed that a total number of 4,794 drunken driving cases had been detected up to May 2016 and a total number of 3,276 driving licenses have been suspended.
A total amount of Rs 51.30 lakh have been collected as compounding fees and fines.
The RTOs in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar and the Police Commissionerate have been supplied with 80 new breath analyzers for testing of the drunken position of the drivers. An amount of Rs 15 crore
has been budgeted for road safety this year. It was decided that modern equipments would be purchased from this fund.