According to Additional Commissioner of Police M K Tandon, this was the first-ever medical examination of bus drivers by the traffic police to assess the drivers eyesight, which is very essential for safe driving. He said such camps would be organised again in due course of time.

However, divisional controller of the Vadodara unit of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation P K Patel said that the drivers detected to be suffering from weak eyesight were not disabled for driving. When it was pointed out that their eyesight might deteriorate in time if no corrective measures were taken, he said that all such drivers had been asked to get themselves rechecked and procure spectacles accordingly.

He said that only 147 drivers were examined and eye check-ups of other drivers would be done in phases. There are over 1500 drivers with the Vadodara depot, according to Patel.

Patel said that the department itself had been holding health check-ups of their drivers from time to time to find out if they were physically fit to continue their work which was physically demanding.

He said that dozens of drivers had been found physically weak for driving and assigned light duties keeping in view their health. He said that drivers' work was such that it was really not possible for some of them to drive buses after the age of 55 years.

When it was pointed out that some ST drivers were in the habit of driving in inebriated state, Patel said that two cases had been reported by the police in recent months but their medical examination proved negative.