Cab drivers will get monthly awards

Hyderabad March 19: Cyberabad Police Commissioner Sandeep Shandilya, has said that city cab drivers will get the monthly awards as the best cab driver award here on Saturday.

He conducted a meeting here on Saturday along with higher officials,

During the program, cab drivers have been shown actual accident scenes captured from the CCTVs and were also educated about various safety tips while driving like an advantage of wearing seat belts, not to use cell phones, to behave properly with passengers, not to chew gutkha/pan masala and avoid drunken drive. They have been also given leaflets about various safety measures.

Speaking on the occasion, Sandeep Shandilya said, "We would like to reward best drivers. We, along with SCSC, would take suggestions from all major IT companies and major Taxi operators to identify the best cab & aTaxi drivers on a monthly basis to reward the drivers with best conduct. He also advised the drivers to take special care while dropping the women passengers at their home/office – instead of just dropping them at their destination and leaving immediately. He exhorted them to wait for a couple of minutes to make sure that they enter their house/office safely".