Traffic Police wala’s

I am talking about the traffic police which keep there eyes just on two wheelers to grab money from them in a city like Pune where most popular mode of transport is 2-wheeler. Nobody in this city had ever found a police man stopping a car or PMT bus for breaking the traffic rules or to show them the documents of their vehicle. But you can see a gang of traffic police stopping only two wheelers and collecting money from them. If your vehicle is not registered in Maharashtra then you are being teased by them. There is rule by Maharashtra high court that you have to transfer your registration to Maharashtra if you want to drive it in state. But most of the people and traffic police don’t know or they show them innocent about this rule directed by high court in sept’03 that “Non-state vehicles can’t be taxed”. This rule says that vehicle registered outside but used in state for more that 12 months should transfer their registration to Maharashtra. The transport authorities can’t demand the one-time tax payment before that.

I can share one of many incident happened with me regarding this. Once in the morning I was riding my bike to office and I stopped on a traffic signal. One police man came to me and asked for papers of bike. I showed him everything, then he asked for pollution certificate and I produce that also. They that guy asked for NOC and said you cannot ride out of state vehicle here. But I tried to convince him about the rule but he least bother about what I was talking about and take my license and ask me to come on one side of the road. I argue with him about this high court rule but he said there is no rule of such kind and unfortunately I was not carrying that newspaper cutting with me. So he told me to get that and show him if there any rule of that kind exist. I told him that I was getting late for office but he didn’t listen to me and start doing his job. And went back home and get all the needed documents and produce them to that traffic police guy. He then said “OK, you can go now”. Now my question is why I was being teased by him, its his job to update himself from all the rules directed by court related to his job. But nobody is answerable for this.

My other concern is why don’t there traffic police guys stop the PMT buses for breaking rules and jumping red lights and not following the heavy vehicle lane on road? These buses are most responsible for accident happens in city of Pune. They stop wherever they find any passenger. In city like Delhi, Bombay and Chandigarh buses and equally being “challan” for breaking traffic rule.

In city like Pune you can easily find a tempo picking two wheelers from parking lot and says it is no parking place. They claim that was outside the white line marking done by police for parking place on roadsides. But actually these lines are absolutely not visible at most of the places. And sometimes they even don’t mark it clearly that your vehicle is seized by traffic police and which police station to approach.

One more thing that I had observed in market place that shopkeepers had put a iron or wooden grill to connect to the main road so that customers can approach his shop. You can find such kind of grills on FC road, JM Road. But this is illegal; no shopkeeper is authorized to put anything on road to block the place of parking. If police remove these then 30-40 more vehicles can be parked on the road side on this famous market place.

I believe these traffic police guys are not doing there duty properly and they are just filling there pockets by teasing the student and working people using two wheeler for their transportation. Most of the people even don’t know even this that a traffic police also need an authority letter to check your license and other papers. And one inspector rank office must present there during this process of stopping vehicle and asking for any document by any “havaldaar”. And no traffic police have any kind of right to argue with you or to abuse you. He can maximum put your license/RC with him or can seize your vehicle if you don’t produce it. He cannot touch you or use any kind of ill language with you. If he is doing this or even more then you have right to file complaint against him. My suggestion to traffic police is that please concentrate on your job and not just collecting money. And also please consider all type of vehicles on road who are breaking traffic rules and not just two wheelers. I think people are also equally responsible for this behavior of them because they don’t know about their rights and they are not aware of what is right and what is wrong.

Mandal commission

This week must be depressing for many students who are studing hard and must be putting their all time in books just to get admission in top most institutes in India like IIT’s and IIM’s, after listening the views of govt. of increasing the Quota for lower caste peoples. I myself was also really depressed after hearing all this news. I simply cannot able to make out that why these politicians always ready to play with carrier of lacks of students just to increase their vote bank. And why they run away from the actual problem and actual feasible solution they can provide for the problem. This reservation was very hardly pushed by late B.R. Ambedkar to provide attract students from lower caste and then finally implemented by mandal commission in 1990 by Hon. Ex. Prime minister V.P Singh.

But I still question him firstly that why this quota system is on caste based and not on the economic status of the family of the student. Govt. is running away from doing this work and recognise the actual needy person for this quota. But I think this can be easily done just by channelising the system, and we can get the list of economic status by the help of municipal party, panchayats, IT department and other special formed commetes also can do this. They can list down the people who can actually can’t afford to study and need such kind of facility and then govt. can take step for them to provide them way and facilities for education.

My next question is Do we really want any kind of quota for any kind of people? I think by putting quota we are telling them not to work much hard. Govt. must provide poor student free education instead of quota. Govt. can setup public libraries where student can actually study and prepare himself to face any kind of tuff competition. Right now govt. is providing free education at lower level and providing them free meal also to attract more and more children. If govt. is so confident about the facilities and education

Provided to these students in school then why they need any kind of quota in any exam after there school. They must be competent to crack any exam. But govt. knows that education provided by them is not good and not sufficient, so just to hide this fact they are providing quota at higher level.

My next question is that if we are providing quota in education to make sure that everybody gets equal education then why do they need any kind of reservation in jobs?

If two peoples are passes out from same college and had done same education then why one have any reserved seat in govt. jobs.

Next thing comes in my mind is that govt. is already providing basic education at school and college level then if even after student is not capable of getting job or getting admission in post graduation then they themselves are responsible for this and not govt. They themselves had not studied hard during there schooling and graduation. So I think Quota in post graduate course must be fully removed and admissions must be fair and equal for everybody.

Now I am taking the case of particular IIM’s. Let we provide the quota in these management institutes and students take admission in them. If they can pay the fee for these institutes then why can’t they afford their study at any level? And why they need any excuse for poor background family.

We can think of a faculity who will be teaching the students of a class which contains 50% students having education level and mental level of 2 and other having education level of 4-5. So to provide them education equally they cannot take the student of level 5 to 10 just only because level 2 cannot directly be taken to level 10.

So faculty also can balance and take whole class maximum just to level 7-7.5. And finally 50% of class suffers, as they are expecting them to reach at a level of 9-10 but they will be at level of just 7-7.5. And this results in dropping the level and quality of education of these top most institutes who had already spend decades of there efforts to reach that level and had got recognized in all over world.

So in my believe govt. is not doing fair with any body. Neither with general category students nor with poor students (reserve category). They are actually closing the way for them to develop their mind and to compete with other guys. And for other students they are lowering the education level.