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Wednesday, Jul 13, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Schoolchildren to don the role of traffic commandos

Staff Reporter

3,000 boys and girls to monitor vehicular flow near schools

RARING TO GO: Schoolchildren, inducted as `Traffic Commandos', demonstrating at the KVBR Stadium in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

HYDERABAD: From Wednesday, schoolchildren in the city will try to infuse some traffic sense into the minds of their teachers, parents and autorickshaw `uncles.'

Some 3,000 boys and girls of classes eight and nine from 120 schools, who were inducted as `Traffic Commandos' here on Tuesday by the Hyderabad Traffic police, will regulate movement of vehicles near their respective schools. They will guide the drivers to specified parking lots and minimise the chaos commonly witnessed at school zones.

Addressing the colourful induction ceremony attended by tennis star Sania Mirza and Telugu film actor, Srikanth, the Additional Commissioner (Traffic), A.K. Khan, said the commandos would come 30 minutes before school time in the morning to regulate the traffic. "Similarly, they will stay back for an extra 30 minutes in the evening," he explained.

The Class 10 students were deliberately omitted from the innovative experiment keeping in mind the pressure of examinations. The Commissioner of Police, V. Dinesh Reddy, asked teachers to give special certificates to the commandos as is the practice in the NCC.

Earlier, the commandos presented a colourful march past at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy indoor stadium marking the induction ceremony.

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