Talking to Express Newsline, Additional Commissioner of Police M K Tandon said that as a part of the traffic education drive, a meeting with auto drivers was held at Sardar Bhavan recently.

Auto drivers were shown an exhibition and a film on the behaviour of road users and asked to adhere to traffic rules in order to avoid accidents, minimise traffic jams and ensure smoother flow of traffic.

The drivers were told to ensure that citizens, who were their clients, were satisfied by their service and behaviour. They were also told to wear a special badge so that they could be identified easily. They were asked not to park autos near road crossings since it adversely affected the traffic movement.

School autorickshaw drivers were asked not to carry more than 10 students at a time and to have grills on the right side of their rickshaws to ensure the students' safety.

The traffic police instructed them not to seat students on the driver's seat and to hang school bags in such a manner that they did not cover the vehicle's registration number.

The traffic police asked all school autorickshaws to have a board saying `School Rickshaw' properly displayed on their vehicles and park their vehicles outside schools, while waiting for students, so that it did not obstruct traffic movement. At another meeting on Monday, Tandon assured autorickshaw representatives that the number of autorickshaw parkings would be enhanced and outer limits of these parking lots would be marked to ensure that autorickshaws were parked within the marked space. Tandon appealed to people to send a post card to the traffic police mentioning date, time, place and autorickshaw number if they were charged more than the prescribed fare.