Police monitor traffic with drones in Ludhiana

To ease traffic congestion on city roads and find out cause of traffic nuisance in the industrial hub, the Ludhiana traffic police have come up with a novel idea to use drones. The drones are being used to monitor the traffic situation in the city.

Joint Commissioner of Police (City) Deepak Pareek, who is supervising the initiative, said the purpose behind the idea was to first get to roots of traffic nuisance in certain city areas. The root cause of traffic mess can be many such as encroachments on roads by shopkeepers or roadside vendors, ill-mannered parking of vehicles (temporary or permanent), wrong architectural design of road or a stretch and lack of traffic lights.