Siliguri, Sept. 27: The effort is commendable but hardly dependable.

Siliguri Traffic Police today released a Puja guide map, a guidebook and children’s identity card to help pandal hoppers have as convenient a day as possible. But the guidebook, brought out in collaboration with a private service provider, does not have all the required information and is splattered with spelling errors.

Even the invitation to visit www.darjeelingpolice.com seems to be a farce since most of the facts on the site are old and incorrect.

When asked about it, Darjeeling superintendent of police Rajesh Subarna, who released the map and the guidebook, said the portal was yet to be updated, incorporating all the corrections. “Take it as a mistake,” he said. This was the same reaction he had when The Telegraph had reported on the unrevised portal a few months ago.

In a bid to avoid traffic snarls, movement of vehicles in Siliguri will be restricted from 4 pm to 3 am on the Puja days, the police chief said.

The guide map presents locations of Puja mandaps, roads leading to them, police assistance booths, police outposts, important intersections, railway tracks, traffic prohibition areas and police pickets.

The guide book comprises important telephone numbers like those of police stations, hospital and nursing homes, ambulance and blood banks, railway, airways and tourism, electricity and even media houses. But there are some glaring omissions here. It also has the names of city-based clubs that are organising the 28 major Pujas in Siliguri.

The guide map and book, and the children’s ID cards, are available at police assistance booths.