It needs about Rs 40 crore to get modern infrastructure required by a mega city, as Hyderabad will acquire the status soon. If the proposals are accepted, speed cameras will be installed at traffic junctions that will catch signal jumpers and traffic violators. The present cumbersome and manually written summons and notices will be a thing of past as they will be replaced by electronic challans.
In the new format, the traffic violations and their corresponding sections and the fines to be collected will be fed to a portable computer. The traffic cop just have to feed the vehicle number to complete the challan.
The much delayed area traffic control systems, which can weigh the traffic at a junction and change the signal automatically will replace the present signal systems, which change at pre-set time intervals. Two more traffic police stations will be set up by bifurcating the Punjagutta and Karkhana traffic stations. It has been proposed to set up one unit at Ameerpet and one at Bowenpally.
The modernisation proposal also envisages interlinking of all traffic stations, enhancing the communication network and having a net presence with a direct link to the RTA data. The proposed website will host notifications and provide an interface for public with the officials.
One crane and 10 ambulances are also sought. Now, there are about 2,000 personnel, including 800 home guards manning the traffic in the city. An additional manpower of 12 SIs, 17 RSIs, 321 head constables, 758 police constables and several home guards has been sought, the Additional Commissioner said.
"The traffic police stations, unlike the law and order police stations, have to cover a large area. There is a need for more police stations and manpower," says DCP (Traffic) Anil Kumar.
