According to the latest reports, three years into the program wherein private citizens were asked to assist the police force in managing the traffic in Mumbai, newly appointed Mumbai Police Commissioner, Sanjay Pandey has stated that he will do away with them.
The police commissioner has tweeted that there are enough traffic police personnel to manage the city's traffic. For those unversed, the wardens were primarily brought in to manage traffic outside construction sites. However, accounts now claim that they are being utilized by certain traffic personnel as a medium to collect bribes.
Based on narratives, officials elaborated on how they will have to make do with the present traffic staff of over 3,800 and not have any private citizens partaking in the police jobs.
On Saturday, Pandey tweeted, "Private traffic wardens not needed we are capable to handle. #clearmumbairoads". On the other hand, he took to Facebook to remark, "Use of traffic wardens who were on pay rolls of infrastructure developers and were many complaints have been done away with. Traffic police is more than adequate to handle traffic in Mumbai".
Met Infrastructure developers in Mumbai. J Kumars et al Instructed a. No boulders spilling on to roads, wherever they are be removed forthwith. b. Noise levels be within permissible limits c. Private traffic wardens not needed we are capable to handle. #clearmumbairoads
— Sanjay Pandey (@sanjayp_1) March 11, 2022
According to narratives, the traffic warden program was initiated in May 2019 by the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. During the initial stages of the scheme, over 500 wardens were enrolled by the traffic police and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had vouched for another 1,000.
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