Pramesh S Jain
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ontinuing special drive against e-commerce delivery executives,traffic police on Friday booked a total number of 4293 cases of violations out of which 2318 cases are related to riding without helmet.
The police officers also booked cases against the violators and collected fine of Rs. 22.13 lakh .
The other violations includes 472 cases of riding in no entry,387 cases of driving against one way and 258 cases of signal jump.
Our aim is not to fine them but to enforce traffic discipline among them”, a senior police officer part of the drive, said .
The Traffic police have held a meeting with the representatives from e-commerce and food delivery companies to bring road discipline among them and also to reduce number of violations .
Awareness among the delivery executives have also been created before launching the drive .
The main reason for the violations is rash and negligent riding due to meet the deadline promises offered by the companies with 10 to 30 minutes food delivery or it’s free put pressure on the executives to meet tight deadlines and they have to pay from thier pockets .
This will lead to rash and negligent driving and traffic violations and putting their safety at risk.
The company concerned should not offer such unrealistic deadline considering the traffic and road conditions in and around the city,member of United Food Delivery Partners Union,association of delivery executives in the city,said .
