A vast majority of the citizens driving on Indian roads break traffic laws on a daily basis. It might be as innocuous as changing lanes, overtaking from the left or just parking in zones prohibiting that.

To make people understand the same and to prevent them from doing so, the Hyderabad City Police has started this new initiative to change the laid-back lifestyle of the Indian road users. The Violation-free day, observed on the first of every month, envisages just that.

With the help of a few hundred volunteers, the city police manned prominent intersections of Hyderabad and educated people on the importance of following traffic rules. As part of the same endeavour, the police has decided that on these violation free days, no person would be fined for simple offences. Instead the offenders would be required to don the mantle of a traffic constable for one full day taking a break from his/her work. This would give the citizens a first hand feel of the difficulty in handling traffic as also make them realise that following rules makes the traffic situation in the city much better.

Unfortunately, the exercise lasted only in the day time and the dark hours when most serious violations and accidents occur were left untapped. Maybe if there was an exercise to inculcate traffic sense in the night time when violations are rampant, it would have been an undisputed success.

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