Student site visitors volunteers to be re-engaged in Twin City

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: The Commissionerate Police will re-engage scholar site visitors volunteers within the Twin City of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack from Monday after a niche of two years. 

After the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the Commissionerate Police had stopped participating college students in site visitors duties to make sure their security.

Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissioner Saumyendra Kumar Priyadarsi on Saturday inaugurated a two-day coaching workshop within the Capital City for about 200 scholar site visitors volunteers. 

While Cuttack DCP Prateek Singh inaugurated a one-day coaching programme on Sunday for about 120 scholar site visitors volunteers within the Silver City. The volunteers had been offered coaching about primary site visitors guidelines/rules and the way they need to conduct themselves whereas on obligation. They will probably be deployed in vital intersections and the areas dealing with site visitors congestion in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. 

“About 120 student volunteers from Cuttack and 200 from Bhubaneswar have been inducted to assist the traffic personnel in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. The volunteers include both boys and girls and they are over 18 years old,” mentioned Twin City Traffic DCP S Susree.

The college students will probably be deployed within the site visitors posts that are close to to their homes and every day they’ll carry out duties for 3 hours.

“Mostly the student volunteers will be deployed in evening hours so that their education is not affected. They will have to perform duties for 16 days in a month and they will receive a remuneration of `100 everyday,” mentioned Susree.

Commissionerate Police had acquired a number of functions from the candidates and senior officers organised an induction programme to pick the scholar site visitors volunteers as per the sanctioned energy of the system. 

The candidates had been chosen primarily based on their character check, peak/weight and different parameters. Police have already offered T-shirts, sneakers, caps and whistles to the scholar volunteers and they’ll obtain their identification playing cards this week. The Student Traffic Volunteers Scholarship Scheme (STVSS) was carried out in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in 2017.