Though biometric attendance system run through an application that shows the location and timing of the attendance of the employees due to Geo tagging facilities is the best to enforce punctuality in Government offices but traffic jams galore both in towns and villages more in peak morning hours than in the later part of the day has reduced the very purpose of punctuality with which the biometric system of attendance was introduced in Government offices across Jammu & Kashmir. While the traffic jams are so intense that employees reach their offices late by 30-45 minutes in the morning, the very purpose of introducing biometric system of attendance comes into question and as such increasing traffic jams by all standards of administrative wisdom deserve immediate attention of the Government. So by all standards of understandabilities the working of the J&K Traffic Police does not hit only the working of Government offices but also of business operations across Jammu & Kashmir. Henceforth unless and until the Government does not take corrective measures for introducing accountability in the working of the traffic police department with the motives of reducing the increasing intensity of the traffic jams, the motives of punctuality in government offices and efficiency in business operations can’t be established even in a single urban or rural area of either Kashmir Valley or Jammu division. Unfortunately traffic regulation system is not suited to the conveniences of travellers even in the twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu not to talk of towns and villages. Traffic cops are visible only at very few four way crossings in twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu in the morning and evening hours but not on bypass highways leading to different district headquarters from twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu.
“Unless and until the working of the traffic police department is not changed to suit the travel conveniences of people of all classes, hospital emergencies and other public facilities, the working of Government departments, health facilities, schools and other such centres of public conveniences can’t be changed with the purposes of easing the conveniences of the people”.
It is also an irrefutable fact that traffic cops are seen clearing the movement of top government functionaries but not of the hospital ambulances and staff buses ferrying doctors and paramedics to hospitals and children to schools in the peak morning hours in both the twin capital cities and as well as major towns of both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division. Though movement of hospital ambulances, school buses and the staff vehicles ferrying doctors and paramedics to hospitals should have been the priority of the traffic police but unfortunately their priority is the movement of top Government functionaries just for their travel comforts. Unless and until the working of the traffic police department is not changed to suit the travel conveniences of people of all classes, hospital emergencies and other public facilities, the working of Government departments, health facilities, schools and other such centres of public conveniences can’t be changed with the purposes of easing the conveniences of the people .
