LAHORE - The traffic police department, at last, has adopted 'old traditional method' of generating revenue by imposing maximum fine on the motorists, no matter the drivers are violating traffic rules or not. It has been learnt reliably that each warden deployed in the City has been assigned the new task to impose fine on at least five motorists during his eight-hour duty every day, thanks to the new guidelines set by the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Traffic Police Ghalib Ali Bandesha. The graduate force of wardens, which has replaced the old traffic police with an idea to bring drastic change at grass route level, has been assigned this task of generating revenue by the DIG Traffic in a darbar of traffic wardens held here the other day. Presently, at least 3,000 wardens are discharging their duties in the Provincial Metropolis. The new instructions mean this number of traffic wardens would issue no less than 15,000 challan tickets to the motorists every day showing that how 'cruel' is the decision of the traffic police towards motorists at the time when they are already facing a number of other problems including high fuel prices, tremendously increasing prices of vehicles' spare parts besides another serious dilemma of unavailability of parking facilities. The wardens have been warned against strict departmental punishment also called as the 'Drill Punishment' for not complying with the new orders. This punishment, also termed as a symbol of terror among wardens, is usually awarded to the traffic officials for committing serious violation or disobeying orders of the seniors. After Darbar, the said instructions were issued in the order book of the traffic department with strict directions to the Senior Traffic Wardens to ensure implementation upon these guidelines otherwise be ready to face departmental action. The Superintendents of Police Traffic have been asked for close supervisions in this regard. The senior wardens will prepare reports of the juniors for their failure to meet the target of five challan tickets during their working hours. These reports will be sent to the traffic police department for punishment. This initiative was taken at the time when the new traffic force was undergoing the learning process and was not fully aware of all the tactics or methods of controlling the City's massive traffic. Instead of improving professional skills of the wardens, the traffic police department has put its (wardens) energies in generating revenue, which is evident from the fact that the wardens have started imposing heavy fines on the motorists to meet their target and to show their performance. They are not giving much attention towards smooth flow of traffic on the roads due to fear of departmental punishment. One can see group of at least two to three wardens, these days, on almost every main road of the City issuing challan tickets to the motorists. The incidents of exchange of hot words between the wardens and the motorists and minor scuffles have become a routine matter. The DIG Traffic Ghalib Ali Bandesha was not available for comments when contacted repeatedly.