KOLKATA: Kolkata Traffic Police has started receiving over a dozen breakdown calls daily on the 1073 helpline number advertised for cars encountering trouble on Maa or AJC Bose Road flyovers. Three weeks after the facility was launched, cops claim that on a daily basis, three to four calls pertain to breakdowns on Maa and AJC Bose flyover, while the rest are from motorists facing trouble in other parts of the city.
"The initial response was very tepid. However, as the rains set in slowly in the past one week, the number of calls have gone up. A study of these calls has led us to believe that it is mainly self-driven car owners who end up calling us,"explained an officer manning the toll-free number.
