There has been a significant decrease in the number of accidents at the squares, recorded in the past few months. The Traffic police officials claim that the initiatives taken by Home Minister Babulal Gaur have yielded better results.
Constant efforts to maintain traffic system has improved the traffic flow and freed the squares which were earlier cluttered with heavy traffic.
Aiming to make the traffic ‘Accident-free’ the traffic police is constantly encouraging the citizens to support their efforts. Ensuring that the commuters follow the rules, traffic police personnel are persuading the citizens to follow them in every possible way. The use of ‘Public Addressing System’ has achieved tremendous success — in both awaring the commuters and penalising the defaulters — at the busy and major squares of the city. According to the figures, 3,626 accidents occurred in 2012 of which 301 people died. In 2013 around 3,294 accidents were reported and 257 people died which was 64 per cent less than the previous year.
Till April 2014, a total of 1,022 accidents occured while 90 people died, 448 serious accidents were reported of two-wheelers where 48 riders without helmet died while those with helmets survived.