who hasn’t been able to install CCTV at crucial points
to prevent crime, would be at his wits’ end finding the resources to install
smart overhead cameras on every traffic signals in Delhi in a record time of
less than a month given the roll out of his plan is scheduled for the new year
day. In a city chock-a-block with private cars that outnumber cars in the other
three metropolitan cities, it would be well night impossibleThe Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal though has chosen to act on being upbraided by the Delhi
High Court -- people of Delhi are living in gas chambers. His knee-jerk
reaction was to clear the Delhi roads of vehicular traffic by half the number
of private cars, come 1 January 2016. Even number bearing cars and the ones
bearing odd numbers would take turns on alternate days.Beijing resorts to
road
rationing with its ruthlessly efficient police force’s writ running. Here in
Delhi, however, the Kejriwal government is constantly at loggerheads with the
Centre. Delhi Police, including those manning traffic, come under the Central
control which for all one knows might not do Kejriwal’s bidding if only to spite
him. The traffic police in many of the Latin American countries employ overhead
cameras to capture smartly the number plates of cars that had no business to be
on roads at a given point of time pursuant to the road rationing policy.to
enforce the rule manually even if somehow the Central government and the peeved
Delhi Police -- who are still chafing at his thulla remark -- are brought around.Most of the car owners are
well heeled and reluctant to use public transport. Many of them would go for a
second car with a number plate that allows them to use both the cars on
alternate days without falling foul of the law. And the intrepid ones would take
the risk of falling foul of the law by tampering with the last digit, smug in
the belief if caught they would bribe their way through. Indeed the honest
traffic police in Delhi would be having a tough time hauling up the offending
cars and their drivers and the corrupt ones would be having a field day, lining
their pockets happily. The bumper to bumper traffic Delhi is witness to might
well come to a standstill with honest or corrupt police personnel waving down
the offending cars.
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