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These emergency vehicles include mostly the first-response service providers such as ambulances, fire brigades, disaster management vehicles, and police patrol vans.
According to Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic), who also heads the technical committee of the Delhi Police, “the installation of cameras on such vehicles could serve a variety of purposes ranging from instilling lane-discipline in drivers to the retrieval of impeccable evidence from crime scenes.”
As many as 50 prominent stretches within the city have been designated as ‘No Tolerance Zones’ for lane discipline enforcement by mobile traffic teams and chase-and-challan squads.
Several traffic teams work in sync with each other with one team keeping an eye on the lane violation and also sharing it with the other teams which would then chase down the violator for on-the-spot prosecution.
Under the provisions of the Rules of Road Regulation, 1989, as well as the Delhi Motor Vehicles Rules, 1993, the Delhi traffic police have designed a vehicle movement pattern for different categories.
This consists of the extreme left lane, which is the bus lane, for the plying of buses as well as light four-wheeled transport vehicles, including four-wheeled goods carriers; the next lane being reserved for three-wheelers.
As per the regulations, for motorized traffic other than transport vehicles and goods carriers, the extreme right lane on all roads with a provision of a central median must be used.
