Jamshedpur: Adityapur in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district will soon get a dedicated traffic thana, thus fulfilling the long-standing demand of local residents as well as the district police.

The new traffic thana will start operating from either Adityapur or adjoining Gamharia by the end of this week.

Seraikela-Kharsawan superintendent of police Chandan Kumar Sinha said the state cabinet had decided on setting up of a full-fledged traffic police station a fortnight ago but a notification in this regard was issued on Monday.

The Seraikela-Kharsawan SP said traffic movement in the district, especially at the townships of Adityapur and Gamharia will be much more streamlined following the setting up of the traffic police station.

"We currently manage with just 50 traffic cops headed by a traffic sub-inspector across the district, but once a traffic police station comes up we will get over 250 cops including one inspector, five sub-inspectors, 25 assistant sub-inspectors and 38 head-constables. Over 180 constables will be posted in the district," the senior police officer told The Telegraph.

Conceding that the Tata-Kandra Road is the most mishap-prone area, he said extra manpower would bring down accidents.

"The regular road mishaps is ascribed to the absence of adequate number of traffic cops. Had there been adequate manpower, then the traffic police would have been deployed at strategic locations like the Tata-Kandra Road and mishaps would have been controlled easily. But now we are confident that road mishaps will not take place any more," claimed the SP.

Pointing out to another blind spot in traffic management, Sinha said the efforts of traffic personnel in Adityapur, who carry out helmet checking drives, is wasted in the absence of powers that the traffic wing currently lacks.

"As of now the traffic police in Adityapur did not have spot-fine power and an offender, if nabbed, without helmet or vehicle documents, would have to travel to Seraikela for paying the penalty. But now we will have the spot-fine power and we will be able to slap spot fines during the helmet-checking drives like it happens in Jamshedpur," the SP said.

Sinha said personnel posted in the district will be distributed among the various townships like Seraikela, Chandil, Adityapur and Gamharia for more effective traffic management.