M.A. Saleem brought back to head traffic management in Bengaluru
The Hindu
Bengaluru With an aim to rehaul and professionalise traffic management in the city, the State govern
With an aim to rehaul and professionalise traffic management in the city, the State government has brought back M.A. Saleem, a 1993-batch IPS officer with a track record of innovative traffic management and a PhD degree to back it, to helm traffic in the city.
Following recent complaints by several industrialists and investors of the crippling traffic in the city even during Invest Karnataka 2022, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who also holds charge of Bengaluru Development, had recently said that easing traffic congestion in the city was his government’s top priority.
Sources said the Chief Minister was keen on bringing back Dr. Saleem to head traffic management in the city.
To accommodate Dr. Saleem, the post of the Bengaluru City Traffic Police Chief has been upgraded to Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) rank, to which even the City Police Commissioner belongs to.
In a newly created post, M.N. Anucheth has been posted as Joint Commissioner, Bengaluru City Traffic Police, to assist Dr. Saleem.
Dr. Saleem is known to be one of the rare officers passionate about traffic management and has had one of the longest stints managing traffic in Bengaluru in various capacities.
His passion for traffic management was such that he went on to get a PhD on ‘Traffic management in metropolitan cities: A framework to provide sustainable strategies to overcome traffic congestion and ensure greater safety on road’, from Bangalore University in 2010.
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