CP VISITS TOLL PLAZAS TO CREATE AWARENESS
Nagrale appeals to people to stay indoors, says vehicles’ colour tagging will discourage people from getting out unnecessarily
A day after the Mumbai Police made it mandatory for vehicles engaged in emergency and essential services to have colour coded stickers, the Commissioner of Police (CP) Hemant Nagrale visited the crucial entry points of the city-- Dahisar and Mulund toll plazas and distributed the stickers to motorists. The order came after the entry-exit points at Dahisar, Mulund and Vashi, and some other parts of the city saw long traffic jams because of police nakabandi and check on those flouting lockdown rules.
The Mumbai Police CP had said that red, green and yellow stickers were introduced to ensure the strict imposition of the restrictions brought by the Maharashtra government to curb the rising coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases. CP Nagrale highlighted that the colour coding of the vehicles will
discourage people from getting out unnecessarily.
On Sunday, CP Hemant Nagrale visited the Mulund and Dahisar toll plaza to personally advise people to stay indoors unless necessary and requested them to abide by the colour-coded sticker rule. "While the stickers are not to be issued like the e-passes for travelling, they should be in the form of six-inch circles, and can be easily made at home at no cost at all. Those unable to make it, can procure it from ‘nakabandi
points’ and all toll nakas free of charge," said the Mumbai Police chief.
Vehicles of doctors, medical staff, ambulances and those engaged in supplying medical equipment will have to sport red stickers, while vehicles transporting food, vegetables, fruits, groceries, dairy products, etc, will have to have green stickers, CP said. People employed in essential services such as civic body, electricity, telephone department and press will have to paste yellow stickers.