Turn on the traffic lights

-Vimalkrishna

A middle-aged woman named Bayamma has overtaken the charge of traffic controlling in Taramani junction on her own after her daughter was met with an accident in that same busy street. The junction is left without any traffic signals or a security officer to control and maintain the vehicles. As it is a hectic and busy street, there is a high possibility of accidents due to the lack of proper controlling.

  One night, Bayamma's daughter was crossing the street, a motorbike hit her which Injured and hospitalised the young girl. As a precautious measure to such incidents, Bayamma decides to take matters on her own hand and from the next day onwards, she stood at the centre of the junction and started to direct and control the traffic. Bayamma is actually a cleaner in a hospital situated at Taramani. After her working hours at the hospital, she spends the rest of the day as the traffic controller. She starts her duty from 6'o clock to 8'o clock in the morning. Then in the afternoon, her work extends from 4'O clock to 8'O clock at night. Bayamma says, even though many police officers Patrolling around the area has seen her, nobody took the effort to remove her from the spot. It is only after she got media coverages, the case went viral and Police was compelled to stop her from doing this. But according to Bayamma, she genuinely wants to take up this job, neither as a protest nor as a complaint, but to help people to have an easy and safe journey.

  School kids who regularly use the street have responded that Bayamma has been a good help to them as she helped all the kids to cross the street safely. Previously it was a very difficult task for them; says some students. Selvaraj, a carpenter from the neighbourhood also stated that Bayamma's effort should get proper recognition because she's doing a very helpful job for the travellers.

  Even if Bayamma is allowed to continue or not, it is not at all right to leave the junction abandoned without attention as there are many such unheard voices crying out for helping them from such high risky and busy traffic areas.