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Mumbai: College students to pitch in to handle traffic mess

Traffic Department identifies 25 spots across city which face traffic issues; wardens to be selected from colleges associated with NSS, NCC

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Wardens have been helping traffic police in regulating traffic for the last four years. File pic/ Bipin Kokate

Wardens have been helping traffic police in regulating traffic for the last four years. File pic/ Bipin Kokate

Mumbai will have another 10,000 traffic wardens to help the traffic police discipline motorists by preventing traffic jams. The Traffic Police Department has identified 25 such spots in Mumbai, where the wardens will work along with the traffic police to regulate the traffic.

Physical fitness important

These wardens will assist police officers in regulating traffic and will be mostly college students associated with NSS and NCC. Talking about the selection, officials said, they are in touch will the heads of NSS and NCC colleges and have a list of the students. The students will be notified about the opportunity and those interested will have to register their names. Once done, their physical fitness will be checked and if the department feels okay, the candidates will be selected.
Each candidate will have to give just three hours a week to the traffic police. In this way, the traffic police will get 30,000 hours in a week.

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