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penalty points system has led to a What road safety initiatives have
tremendous improvement in the you introduced?
compliance of traffic rules. If the Drunken driving was a menace in “We brought in
compliance level for wearing helmet Hyderabad, and a high number of body-worn cameras
was 30 to 40 percent earlier, it has fatalities used to get registered there.
risen to 70 to 80 percent after this So, we had to launch a drive to stop it. for the first time in
system was introduced in August If the alcohol content shown in breath Hyderabad. They
this year. Similarly, the wearing analysers was more than 30ml, we have changed the
of seatbelt has also improved and would generate challans. It is totally behaviour of our
people have begun following the evidence based and the violators were
rules by stopping at the stop lines. charge-sheeted, vehicle was seized and staff and the drivers
Overall, we see, people have become counselling was given to the violators. who used to get into
more disciplined on the road. This year from January to the 31st arguments when
The existing signal system is totally of August, we have booked about they were probed
controlled from traffic command 11250 cases, out of which, about for violations. We
control center. It has a VAC (Vehicle 2000 people were sent to jail through
Actuated Control) mode. So, if the courts for one day to twenty days and have been using
traffic is less in one arm, it waits for about 1000 people were awarded these for the last
four seconds and the green signal social service punishment like cleaning one year in the City.
then goes to the other arm where in hospitals, cleaning in bus stations, The tool has brought
the traffic is more. We have ATS and cleaning in railway stations. So,
mode too where depending upon the the drunken driving initiative is also transparency in the
volume of the traffic, it gets adjusted proving very effective and it has system, increased
after every three cycles. We have a brought reduction in accidents. For accountability,
manual mode also, which means if example, last year till August 30, 280 and arguments &
there is much congestion because of fatalities were registered but this year, corruption.”
some events then we go into manual in the same period, only 197 cases have
mode and operate the signal system. been registered. We have reduced 83
So, this system has been working deaths this year because of various
effectively for the last three years in reasons: one of them is drunken
Hyderabad, It has been helping in the driving, and the other is identifying
regulation of traffic. black spots and taking measures like

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