Trauma Care Kozhikode (TRACK) has mooted the involvement of the Kozhikode Corporation for proper traffic management in the city.
The idea of ‘traffic wardens’ under the Corporation has been proposed as a solution to the traffic issues over which neither the police nor the Motor Vehicles department (MVD) has any legal responsibility.
There are a few hundred traffic hotspots in the city. But with the current strength of the traffic police, they are unable to reach everywhere. The police and the MVD share the role of traffic enforcement agencies most of the time, but neither of them is bound by the responsibility of enforcing traffic rules. The Road Safety Authority has not developed into a specialised agency yet. In this situation, trained traffic wardens in the cities, under the control of Corporations, would come in handy, TRACK president C.M. Pradeep Kumar told The Hindu.
