Srinagar, Apr 26: Despite collecting a whopping Rs 100 crore from various categories of traffic violators in the last 5 years and rising traffic accidents, the Traffic Department in Jammu and Kashmir is not in possession of a single ambulance.
According to official data, the highest number of monetary penalties have been recovered by the Traffic Police City Jammu.
The official data available with the news agency Kashmir News Trust reveals that for the last 5 years from 2018 to 2022, Traffic Police National Highway Ramban has realized a fine to the tune of over Rs 15 crores, Traffic Police City Jammu over Rs 38 crores, Traffic Police Rural Jammu over Rs 16 crores, Traffic Police City South Srinagar nearly Rs 16 crores while Traffic Rural Kashmir has realized a fine of Rs over 5 crores in a single year in 2022.
The Traffic Department has made the data public in reply to the queries raised by the applicant who is a social activist and journalist M M Shuja under the Right to Information Act.
The information provided to the applicant reveals that not a single ambulance is in possession of Traffic Police National Highway Ramban, Traffic Police City Jammu, Traffic Police Rural Jammu, Traffic Police City South Srinagar and Traffic Rural Kashmir.
This is in the backdrop of hundreds of casualties that happen every year across J&K in traffic accidents, most of which are generally attributed to a lack of immediate medical and trauma care.
The manpower in Traffic Department regulating traffic has also been witnessing a nose dive. Traffic Police City South in Srinagar had a strength of 527 traffic police personnel in 2018 which came down to 500 in 2019,492 in 2020, 488 in 2021, and 466 in the year 2022.
The deployment of traffic personnel has also witnessed a fall in Traffic Police City Jammu,463, Traffic Police Rural Jammu 324 including 84 SPOs, and Traffic Rural Kashmir 365. [KNT]
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