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| Now flood heroes regulate traffic in summer capital | | | Shakeel A Khan
SRINAGAR, Oct 9: The recent floods have come as a blessing for many in the Kashmir Valley and the traffic police is enjoying a major share of it. The beats meant for the cops regulating traffic have been abandoned by these cops as the authorities seem to have lost the control on its employees.
Though the business activities in the summer capital have come to a grinding halt but vehicular movement has picked up and the city continues to experience the massive traffic jams because at most of the places, particularly at the entry points to the city, cops meant for regulating the traffic have skipped their duties in the garb of the flood.
What is annoying and at the same time encouraging too that the volunteers who did the real heroics during the floods could be seen regulating the traffic these days, the job meant for the traffic police personnel. What is even more pleasing that these volunteers are performing this duty quite effectively.
This correspondent got stuck in the massive traffic jam at Qamarwari only some days back and there seemed to be no immediate respite from this boring and tiresome situation. As this correspondent came down from the vehicle to see the actual point of fault and it was the Qamarwari chowk as usual. What this correspondent saw that it was a handful of people in civvies trying their level best to facilitate the smooth movement of the stranded vehicles. On being asked if the people regulating the traffic were the traffic police personnel in civvies, a commoner namely Mushtaq Ahmad got irritated and said, "The traffic police personnel have never did their duty and after the floods they are nowhere to be seen,".
Mushtaq said loud and clear that the flood has rendered the CM of the state to a mere show only on the paper and he is in no capacity to dictate terms to his employees which can be gauged from the fact the employees from the valley, even the ones who got least affected by the flood, ignored the warnings of the CM to report to their offices. The people of the valley believe that the coalition government, which is breathing its last, appears to have made a mind to leave the post flood job to the next government which will be formed from some time now.
"Be it the traffic regulating issue or running the hospitals, these jobs seem to be out of bounds for the people in power. In fact, they don't want the people of the valley to bother them any more by demanding the redressal of their problems and that is why one does not see the election related activities of the people in power," said Shahnawaz Ahmad from Srinagar, whose opinion was sought by the Early Times. |
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