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Welfare board sought for traffic policemen

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, APRIL 3. The administration must set up a welfare board for police, particularly traffic policemen, in the Union Territory, the Muthialpet Consumer Group has suggested at a recent interaction between the traffic police and public here.

R. Shanmugasundaram, group president, said today that he had requested the police authorities at the meeting to ensure that the widened roads were not misused by vendors. The encroachments on important thoroughfares such as the Mahatma Gandhi Road were affecting the free movement of traffic.

He said he had also focussed on the unnecessary expenditure incurred in replacing the tar roads with cement roads. Instead, the Government could have repaired the roads.

The jurisdiction of the traffic police cell should be widened to cover peripheral pockets such as Kalapet, Muthialpet, Mudaliarpet, Ariyankuppam, Villianur, Kurumbapet, Bahoor and Krimambakkam on the four entry points of Pondicherry. A separate traffic outpost should be created on these arterial routes.

The Association of Pondicherry State Retired Police Officers today charged the administration with ignoring the welfare of police personnel.

In a release, the vice-president of the association, N. Natarajan, said that no measures had been announced in the budget presented by the Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, on March 28.

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