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| Who will check the overloading and over speeding to avoid accidents? | | In front of traffic cops, Drivers flouting rules in Rajouri | |  Amit Sharma
EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, June 2: Although having accident prone roads, private buses continue to flout rules and regulations in border districts Rajouri and Poonch putting thousand of lives at risk. Traffic department has also seemed to have closed their eyes on the overloading and over speeding in the area which becomes routine reason of accident.
Ironically, every year hundreds of passengers loose their precious lives due to accident caused by overloading in the private transport vehicles here in these frontier districts.
In fact, Rajouri and Poonch districts are known for deadly accidents. Hundreds of passengers were killed and thousands others wounded during the last few years.
Sources in the Traffic and Transport Departments said that inadequate number of commercial vehicles and shortage of traffic regulating staff allows private transporters to indulge in overloading.
"The state Traffic and Transport Department has failed miserably in taking effective steps to check overloading in our border districts. There is shortage of commercial passenger vehicles. And absence of new permits to private transporters leads to overloading," said Mushtaq Ahmed, a resident and businessman here, who shuttles between Darhal and this border township on daily basis in the overloaded buses.
There is also shortage of traffic cops, which gives the private transporters free hand to overload.
A senior traffic police officer expressing helplessness to check overloading, said we do our bit to check it. "But we too are facing shortage of manpower," he added.
The menace of overloading has put lives at risk with buses jam packed with the passengers. The students moving to and from in the Schools also prefer to board jam packed buses because they had to reach school in time.
Reports of overloading is mostly being received on Rajouri-Thanamandi, Rajouri Budhal, Rajouri-Bagla, Rajouri-Rachwa and Kotranka Budhal routes while there are also reports of overloading from Poonch districts on Poonch Baflias, Poonch Surankote and Poonch Mandi routes.
Sources said that traffic police has also failed to stop private transporters from overloading and there is alleged nexus between the transporters and traffic police in the area. "There is hafta system in movies however traffic police inn Rajouri Poonch received monthly hafta from the drivers and let them do what they want", a resident alleged.
Although government had issued instructions to Tehisldars and Naib Tehsildars to check overloading in their areas, nothing changed on ground in the area. |
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