Kejriwal’s road rationing Why it has failure, untold inconvenience writ large on it

who hasn’t been able to install CCTV at crucial points to prevent crime, would be at his wits’ end finding the resources to install smart overhead cameras on every traffic signals in Delhi in a record time of less than a month given the roll out of his plan is scheduled for the new year day. In a city chock-a-block with private cars that outnumber cars in the other three metropolitan cities, it would be well night impossibleThe Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal though has chosen to act on being upbraided by the Delhi High Court -- people of Delhi are living in gas chambers. His knee-jerk reaction was to clear the Delhi roads of vehicular traffic by half the number of private cars, come 1 January 2016. Even number bearing cars and the ones bearing odd numbers would take turns on alternate days.Beijing resorts to



road rationing with its ruthlessly efficient police force’s writ running. Here in Delhi, however, the Kejriwal government is constantly at loggerheads with the Centre. Delhi Police, including those manning traffic, come under the Central control which for all one knows might not do Kejriwal’s bidding if only to spite him. The traffic police in many of the Latin American countries employ overhead cameras to capture smartly the number plates of cars that had no business to be on roads at a given point of time pursuant to the road rationing policy.to enforce the rule manually even if somehow the Central government and the peeved Delhi Police -- who are still chafing at his thulla remark -- are brought around.Most of the car owners are well heeled and reluctant to use public transport. Many of them would go for a second car with a number plate that allows them to use both the cars on alternate days without falling foul of the law. And the intrepid ones would take the risk of falling foul of the law by tampering with the last digit, smug in the belief if caught they would bribe their way through. Indeed the honest traffic police in Delhi would be having a tough time hauling up the offending cars and their drivers and the corrupt ones would be having a field day, lining their pockets happily. The bumper to bumper traffic Delhi is witness to might well come to a standstill with honest or corrupt police personnel waving down the offending cars.