Taking serious note of the harassment caused to the people of the State during checking by the District Transport Officers or the Police, the Punjab Government has decided to implement the ‘Traffic Marshal’ scheme on the Chandigarh pattern.
“Initially, this scheme would be implemented in Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, ludhiana, Mohali and Patiala,” said the state Transport Minister Ajit Singh Kohar on Thursday while presiding over the Punjab State Road Safety Council meeting.
Kohar said that the Road Safety Council has, in principle, agreed to the constitution of ‘Road Safety Scheme Division’ to reduce the accidental deaths and injuries on roads. The division would include enforcement, education, healthcare, accident investigation, data collection maintenance and able staff or officers, he said.
“Online website has been created by Punjab Roads and Bridges Development Board (PRBDB) in order to mark accident prone areas as 'black spots' besides training the police officials about the website,” he said.
He said that 400 GPS system machines have been provided to the police department.
Kohar also appealed to traffic police officials to go strict against overloaded tractors and trolley’s vehicles apart from stopping the commercial use of tractor- trolley.
The Minister further said that the representatives of Director Health Services, Nodal Officer PWD (B&R) and Additional Director General of Police (Traffic) Punjab would be included in the Road Safety Council.