Noida: Traffic police gets 20 traffic marshals
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Noida: Traffic police gets 20 traffic marshals

The number of traffic marshals increases to 50 and they will work in two shifts.

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Noida Authority has provided Noida Traffic Police with 20 traffic marshals to manage traffic in the city. The traffic police has been facing acute shortage of manpower for a long time.

Layak Singh, traffic inspector (Noida), told City Spidey, “Earlier, we had only 30 traffic marshals but now the number has increased to 50. But this number is also not sufficient to handle traffic of a big city like Noida.”

“Previously, the shift given to traffic marshals was from 7.30 am to 3 pm but they will be working in two shifts. While 25 marshals will be on duty from 7.30 am to 3 pm, the remaining 25 marshals will be on duty 3 pm to 9.30 pm,” Singh added.

On April 27, Alok Sinha, chairman, Noida Authority, had directed Authority officials to provide 200 more traffic marshals to the Noida Traffic Police so that the issue of traffic congestion could be addressed. But Amit Mohan Prasad, CEO of the Authority, shot down this proposal and agreed to provide only 20 traffic marshals.

According to a Noida Authority official, the CEO was of the view that the 30 traffic marshals with the traffic police are never seen at the signals and most of them are missing from duty. So, public money should not go to waste due to this.

With a population nearing 6.5 lakh, the number of traffic personnel in Noida is only 162. This includes two inspectors, three sub-inspectors, 43 head constables and 114 constables.