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As BS-VI rule kicks off in Delhi, cars race past at Badarpur; at Rajokri, Haryana Police helps
The two traffic policemen complained it was almost impossible to check all cars.
At the major checkposts of Kapashera, Rajokri, and Dwarka Expressway, the Traffic Police had stationed five personnel each. (Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)
At the Badarpur border on Thursday, cars whizzed into Delhi; the few policemen deployed at the checkpost made very little attempt to ensure that all vehicles with non-Delhi numbers were only BS-VI compliant. Traffic personnel told The Indian Express that only two traffic policemen had been posted there.
“Only the ZO (Zonal Officer) can use the challan machine, and he is away at Jaitpur to attend a meeting with the rest of the traffic circle staff,” one of the policemen at the checkpoint said on Thursday afternoon.
The two traffic policemen complained it was almost impossible to check all cars. “We can’t stop every vehicle. There are only two of us, so we are randomly stopping cars with UP or Haryana numbers,” one of them said. Even so, they had fined four cars and sent back around 10, the policemen said.
It helped that “90 per cent of the time” the Haryana Police were “checking and sending back cars at their checkpoint [on the Haryana side]”, they said.
At the major checkposts of Kapashera, Rajokri, and Dwarka Expressway, the Traffic Police had stationed five personnel each. Policemen there said they had been issuing progressively fewer challans over the past weeks.
“We have been challaning vehicles since GRAP-II was implemented. On the first day [of GRAP-II], we challaned close to 100 cars. But as people became aware of the rules, the number of violations fell,” an officer said.
Members of the team said 546 cars had been checked on Wednesday and only 28 had been turned back for not complying with GRAP-IV norms.
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