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Kolkata , June 26

THE Kolkata Police Department is considering strict penal provisions to discipline traffic offenders.

The department is also thinking of several new initiatives to enforce traffic discipline, improve infrastructure, educate pedestrians on road use and ensure safe driving in the city.

Speaking at an interactive session on `Traffic discipline and safe driving', organised by Concern for Calcutta (CC), a city-based NGO, here , Mr Prasun Mukherjee, Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, said the department has planned to move the State Government for change in some of the local laws to crackdown on traffic offenders and to ensure road safety. "Mere prosecutions and fines are not enough, and there is a need to twist the law a little bit to make things happen in a positive manner," he pointed out.

He said there was also a plan to improve traffic infrastructure in a big way, like creation of uniform median dividers and remove encroachments, to prevent uncontrolled crossings by pedestrians, and "we expect all this to be in place within one year". Mr Mukherjee also called for greater public support to enforce traffic discipline.

Describing traffic policing in Kolkata as the toughest among all the four metros, the CP said road space ratio to population in Kolkata was the lowest at a mere 6 per cent compared to 23 per cent in Delhi and 17 per cent in Chennai. And added to this are the problems of hawkers and illegal occupants, which force pedestrians to use roads instead of footpaths.

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