Economics is a cool thing. The concept of trickle up and trickle down are too awesome. They just mean that something foreign will adapt to the existing environment or the environment will accommodate the foreign element.
Most people complain about the traffic police who take bribes. I think its OK for the police to take bribes. In fact, the fines should be higher for some serious offences like speeding, drunken driving, non insured vehicles, polluting vehicles and such. Something like, Rs 2000 - Rs 5000 fines will force people to have proper driving discipline, like how it is in US/UK. Each fine is about 5-10% of the monthly income of a upper-middle-class citizen. And look how that works out for them. People follow lane discipline, lesser number of accidents and the intensity of the accidents is about the same as here (except for the pile-up type accidents), but the frequency is very less comparatively. So if the fines are higher, the police will also increase the bribe fee, which is still pinching for most people. That will force people to follow the traffic discipline. As a side benefit, police will see this as an additional income and do their work more stringently and that's the only thing that matters to me. In fact, if the government allocates something like a 20% of the fine amount collected by them as their reward, the corruption could be minimized while maintaining the same duty motivation.
Alongside, the police should install more speeding interceptors, photo tickets at most signals which will increase their income and will decrease the number of traffic problems in most cities. The "Chaos" city of Hyderabad can benefit most from this sort of system. Keep logging the complaints and fines on the registration. Send the tickets to the registered address. When you catch the vehicle in the random checks, seize the vehicle if there are any outstanding bills to be paid. Sell the vehicle to others if it stays in impound for more than a year. Pretty cool huh?
Any thoughts/comments?
3 comments:
Interesting. I think improving the road infrastructure would help reduce breaking of laws. If you have good and enough roads for the traffic then the chances of breaking the rules to go ahead reduces. I can see more people following the rules on highways these days. Well this would be one of the ways.
hmmm... not a bad thought... but if you observe the police really don care much about the real problem like lane discipline overspeeding signal jumping... the bribe they collect is from only the 2 wheeler folks whom they can catch an ask routine license, rc book, insurance papers an if nothin else works emission papers..
the money should go to police...It should go towards developments of roads..
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