Now-a-days we are facing a whole lot of problems like pollution, power failure, shortage of water and corruption in our day to day life and they have become a part and parcel or our life and we somehow manage to live with them with the hope that someday we might be able to come across these problems. But to be precise, these problems are increasing day by day no matter how hard we, our government and the concerned authorities try to curb them. I am going to discuss here one of such problems that is on the full swing and which have a very much influence in our day to day life and activities in this article.

Traffic jam in big busy cities has been one of such issues which concerns us alot and we are really affected by eat.  Everyday we move out of our houses for our day to day work like offices, schools, colleges, business etc and not to mention there remains a huge amount of pressure in us to reach our destination in time. But the question is how often do we reach our place of work or any other place in time? I am sure many of us would answer that it depends upon the volume of traffic we met on our way. Besides, if we want to reach a place in time then the secondary option and the most assured one that is available to us is that we need to  move out from our home way ahead of the scheduled time. But this too also doesn't help us alot because if we move out of our home earlier there is the possibility that we reach our place or work before the scheduled time and that too adds to the agony because now-a-days time is precious and we don't want to  waste it like that.

Majority of our population daily depends upon the means of transport like public and private buses, mini buses, trams, autos, taxis and even bikes, scooters and private cars to reach our place of work in time. The thing that act as a barrier between us and our destination is Traffic Jam and it stands as a monster or a devil which eats away all our valid time, energy and patience. Very often then not we are caught in a scenario where our vehicle gets fixed all around  with other vehicles with the red traffic signal on  and we need to wait for several minutes before we get a chance to move forward. There are a whole lot of reasons for traffic jams taking place at such an alarming rate and screwing away all our happiness. It could be because of a huge political procession passing by with flags on their hands, or because of some construction going on the by-roads or sometimes because of huge number of vehicles parking at the unwanted side of the road and last but not the least because of the violation of traffic rules. Reasons like a large number of vehicles on the road and the road not being broader is quite an understandable issue and we don't have any control on them as because the vehicles are in huge number because of huge number of  human population. The thing I  intend to say over here is that the reasons which are under our control and we can have a control on them by following some basic steps like illegal parking of vehicles at unwanted or wrong spots on the road should not be entertained and our government and the concerned authorities of the traffic department should take some stern step to curb down this menace. It is also been noticed by many of us that the on duty traffic police is not bothered about the issue of traffic jam and he takes it as if something usually that happens is happening rather than taking the matter seriously and try to clear the traffic as soon as possible. To make matter worse for us they are very often not seen during the peak hours of the day when there are schools and offices and everybody is in hurry.

Though there are traffic signals at the side of most of the big roads but some of them doesn't work properly after the last monsoon. Now the question is that it isn't the dury of the concerned authorites to check it from time to time and repair and maintain them periodically for the smooth functioning of the traffic. Not only they need to repair the ones that are working but to install new traffic signals to curb down the menace of  traffic jam to an extent. We can argue to the fact that  our government and the muncipalities has done a great job so far by constructing fly-overs and building metro railways at the most conjested areas with traffic but attention should be given to those passengers also who doesn't travel much by metro railways or whose route doesn't fall on the route of the metro rail. I think in these areas more number of traffic police should be there to handle the traffic and if that is not possible then more traffic signals in good working condition should be installed in such places. Finally, it should be mentioned to one and all clearly that the vehicles should be parked at proper parking place and if any body found guilty of doing so should be penalised heavily.

To add to the above points, I would like to mention that to curb down the traffic jam problem even we citizens could play a vital role together with the government. We just need to keep some basic things in our mind like we should always follow traffic rules and abide by them either when we are driving or a pedestrian. Always keep your vehicles left when driving and last but not the least avoid overtaking for your own safety and for the safety of others. Besides we should never park our vehicles anywhere on the road but at proper parking places.