The Federation of Dehradun City Buses Association alleged that the City Patrol Unit (CPU) personnel are inclined more to impose penalties rather than performing their actual assignment.
The president of the federation Vijay Vardhan Dandariyal said on Monday that the CPU personnel have restricted themselves to merely slapping chalans and doing no other work.
He sarcastically remarked that instead of City Patrol Unit (CPU), it should be renamed as Challan Patrol Unit in tune with the work they are now exclusively engaged in.
He wondered why costly modern equipment and vehicles are being provided to them when it remains engaged in slapping chalans. “This is a sheer waste of public funds,” he said. Citing an instance of a CPU sub-inspector, he said that during his service spanning four years and seven months in CPU, he has imposed 18301 penalties (challans).
He alleged that as per the RTI revelation, the officer had concentrated himself on imposing penalties on the city buses alone while acting softly on Vikrams, Tata Magics and other vehicles.
Dandariyal further said that instead of relying on CPU for regulating traffic, the Government should strengthen the traffic police instead and engage the CPU for the purpose it was created.
He reminded that CPU had been setup for traffic management, controlling accidents and preventing street crimes.
