"VIPs, SFs violate traffic rules"
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 18 2016:
Decrying
that many VIPs and security
forces have been violating
traffic rules at their own whims
thereby severely disturbing the
normal flow of traffic, some
citizens have asserted that there
is a need to teach traffic rules to
VIPs and security forces.
Responding to the cam-
paign of
The Sangai
Express
on traffic manage-
ment at Imphal, one Sagolsem
Indrakumar of Yumnam
Khunou, Imphal East re-
marked that VIPs honking
their vehicles incessantly in
their efforts to overtake other
vehicles is a common sight.
In some cases, when the
vehicles travelling in front of
them signal not to overtake,
they just keep driving at their
leisurely speed.
Prison vans
overtaking other vehicles
when all vehicles are sig-
nalled to halt is another
common sight.
As such, there is a need to
teach traffic rules to drivers
of VVIPs, VIPs and security
forces, Indrakumar said.
Talking on mobile phones
while driving/riding vehicles
and four wheelers slowing
down in the middle of roads
are also quite common.
Again, when some people
use horns to overtake vehi-
cles travelling in front of
them, they are met with stern,
offensive looks.
Even if TCP personnel are
doing their duties properly and pull
up defaulters, the defaulters
always manage to get away
saying "I'm this and that".
Given this VIP culture,
TCP must be given
additional powers,
Indrakumar continued.
Auto-rickshaw (petrol)
driver Md Soukat Ali of
Keirao said that auto-
rickshaws (petrol) are
now charged toll taxes
forcibly at toll tax gates
even though it has been
only diesel autos which
were charged toll taxes
sometime back.