Over a year since Mumbai Traffic Police (MTP) launched an initiative, titled Traffic Warden, to channelise traffic movement outside educational institutes and assist students in crossing the roads during peak hours, the campaign is yet to find success. MTP officials, who have been conducting surprise checks across city schools since yesterday are appalled at the little to no response from schools. The surprise checks continued this morning.

According to MTP officials, they had distributed multiple neon green jackets to all schools and colleges for use by traffic wardens, who are expected to be stationed at all exits of the educational institutions. However, the surprise checks revealed not many schools are adhering to the mandate. “On Wednesday, we conducted a surprise check across 18 schools in Khar, Bandra, Mahim and Dadar to check if enough number of wardens had been assigned at all the gates. But while some schools had wardens at one of the gates, others had none. Also, not many of them were seen wearing the jackets assigned to them,” Vijayalaxmi Hiremath, a senior police inspector from the Traffic department, who visited all the schools.