Traffic wardens assisting police personnel in regulating traffic on Mumbai roads will be entitled for a monthly honorarium which will be borne by corporates under their social responsibility initiative, a senior police officer said.
“It has been decided that traffic wardens will be paid a minimum honorarium of Rs. 12,000 per month on the lines of home guards. The money will be paid by corporates under their social responsibility initiative,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Milind Bharambe.
The ‘traffic warden’ initiative–Citizens Partnership for Traffic Management—was recently launched by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at an event to promote ongoing road safety week.
The traffic wardens will include home guards, trained security guards, college students and conscious citizens.
Bharambe said the concept of “dedicated traffic wardens” came into being due to inadequate number of traffic police personnel to man the traffic and lack of traffic discipline.
“For population of 1.5 crore and vehicles ranging to 1.26 lakh, 3,000 staff, which is divided into multiple shifts, is very meagre. Around 1,000-1,200 cops are there on city roads anytime. They mainly focus on arterial roads and ensure that people reach office in time,” the joint commissioner said.
He said, “there is also a derailment of out value system wherein rich people have tendency to jump traffic signals, so we thought of this concept”.
Bharambe said that “various stake-holders in society” were apprised about the concept of ‘traffic wardens’ and corporates have come forward to support it under their Social Responsibility (CSR).
