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New norms for curbing traffic violations

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Issuing a series of guidelines to check violation of traffic rules and accidents on the Capital's roads, the Delhi High Court on Saturday asked the Delhi Transport Corporation to raise the educational qualification for recruitment of drivers from Class X to Class XII and ban smoking while driving.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice H. R. Malhotra asked the traffic police to raise the amount of fine for jumping traffic lights and make a provision for an increase in it for every repeat of the offence and cancellation of the licence of the violator if he repeated it six times.

The Bench also suggested to the traffic police to impose a fine on abusers of beacon light. Earlier, Standing Counsel Mukta Gupta informed the Court that the traffic police had installed 16 closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras at important traffic junctions.

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