With eight million cars plying the notoriously busy roads in a tech hub renowned for its traffic snarls, police say they don't have enough flesh and blood officers to man all the junctions. "There are 44,000 junctions in the city but traffic lights are fixed in (only) about 450 junctions, the rest of it is manned manually or not managed at all." He added that officers use a "hide and seek" tactic -- swapping the mannequins with actual police -- to keep drivers on their best behaviour. For More of This and Other Stories, Grab Your Copy of the Standard Newspaper. Businessman Rohit Kamalkar said the scheme wouldn't work in a country like India where rules are flouted with impunity.

Source: Standard Digital December 31, 2019 05:37 UTC