Soon school students to man traffic at key Jaipur intersections

Jaipur: The city will soon see schoolchildren helping manage traffic at major intersections as part of a new awareness campaign by the city traffic police. The move comes after an NCRB report placed Jaipur second in road accident deaths, prompting officials to focus on public sensitisation before stricter enforcement begins.The campaign will involve school students, NCC cadets and scouts at several important crossings. Traffic police believe their presence will encourage motorists and pedestrians to follow rules more responsibly.“We will soon start imposing heavy challans against traffic offenders. But before that we want to sensitise both the motorists and pedestrians so that they cannot blame police for issuing rampant challans. Since schoolchildren, NCC cadres and scouts have a sense of patriotism in them, we want to involve them in the awareness drive,” ADCP Traffic (East) of Jaipur Commissionerate, Hemant Kumar Jakhar told TOI.A team led by DCP Traffic Yogesh Goyel already began giving basic training to schoolchildren in traffic operations and management. After training, they will be stationed at selected traffic points for short durations, especially during the summer vacation period.“These schoolchildren, including selected cadres from the NCC and scouts, will manage traffic like other traffic officials. The only difference will be that unlike traffic officials they won’t execute challans. With summer vacations approaching we will deploy them for limited time at key intersections,” stated a traffic official.Officials said the initiative follows a recommendation from the 59th Conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police (2024), which stated, “schoolchildren may be deployed for limited periods to manage traffic checkpoints in collaboration with the police, thereby not only familiarising them with police operations but also contributing to improved traffic flow”.