Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Cops Vs Auto drivers

The traffic police of the city are engaged in a mission to regain the lost sheen of auto drivers of Kozhikode district. With in a few days the traffic police team in mufti will be appointed in different parts of the city to get hold of the auto drivers who decline to ply to certain places.
A team of two police persons will be engaged in checking the unruly manners of the minority segment among the auto drivers. They will also check whether any three wheeler driver is charging extra money from the public.
The Kozhikode based auto drivers had been praised for charging reasonable fare and taking the customers safely to the destination. But owing to the greed and unruly manners of a minority segment in the community, the inherited sheen of service of the whole community has started to fade.

Though the rule ask the three-wheeler drivers to go to any place the customer demands, most of the go-go generation auto drivers limit their route on their own and deny to ply to certain places, especially when women and children approach. This defiant nature of the new generation auto drivers has already invited the opposition of public.

On the same time another group of auto drivers are testing the patience of the passengers by extracting money from them. Though many persons react to the auto drivers on the scene, they do not file any complaint with the traffic police. Thus this innovative effort by city traffic would help to regain the lost fame of Kozhikode Auto drivers

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