Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the work of civil defence personnel will be to do ‘gandhigiri’ while inspectors of transport Department challan violators.
“The number of inspectors is only 500 while we have 5,000 civil defence personnel which means less challans and more Gandhigiri. While announcing the first phase of odd-even, we did not know whether the scheme would be successful and now I believe that its second phase will be successful and we will celebrate it after rapping up the scheme,” he said.
During the first phase of odd-even, out of 20-25 lakhs of cars, there were only 200-250 violations which was nothing. As the people of Delhi supported us, we did not need to challan. Kejriwal said for the last three months, people have been demanding implementation of odd-even once again. Although the experiment of odd-even scheme failed in the entire world, people of Delhi have made it successful due to which world is praising the people of Delhi, he said.
“I give credit for the success of odd-even to two things. One month before the first phase of odd-even scheme, we had held consultations with the people of Delhi through letters, radio, newspapers and television. The second credit goes to civil defence volunteers who gave rose to violators with folded hands to follow the scheme,” he said.
Kejriwal said they did not have any intention to prosecute people during first phase of the scheme but to persuade people to follow the scheme.