Mumbai police have created “inexperienced hall” in any respect test factors and toll plazas for the speedy motion of autos of medical services staff which sport red stickers, an official mentioned on Monday. The town police on Saturday mentioned autos engaged in emergency and essential services must put up colour- coded stickers to restrict the vehicular motion and avert site visitors jams amid the COVID-19 curbs.

Autos belonging to docs, medical workers, ambulances and people engaged in supplying medical gear and testing kits must sport crimson stickers, whereas these transporting meals, greens, fruits, groceries and dairy merchandise might want to have inexperienced stickers.

Going a step forward, the Mumbai police have now created “inexperienced hall” for autos having crimson stickers, the official mentioned.

All such autos had been now being allowed to maneuver by way of these devoted lanes, he mentioned.

Police personnel at varied test factors and toll plazas had been on Monday seen serving to autos having crimson stickers transfer by way of such lanes for clean site visitors motion.

“Inexperienced Hall for Autos With Crimson. We perceive the urgency of all emergency professions and repair seekers. Subsequently, there’s a devoted lane for autos with crimson #emergencystickers at each test level on the roads of Mumbai,” the police tweeted.

After the police directed that autos engaged in emergency and important companies must sport colour- coded stickers, a message on social media claimed gasoline will solely be offered to such autos at petrol pumps.

Nonetheless, the Mumbai police clarified that they had not issued any such instruction and the message was pretend.

“Pretend Message Alert. A message about police instructing petrol pumps to provide gasoline solely to vehicles with #EssentialStickers is fake. Nonetheless, our attraction to Mumbaikars to not transfer out except it is for necessities or an emergency is real & heartfelt,” the police tweeted.

On Sunday, town police registered circumstances towards 286 autos beneath IPC Part 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) for popping out on roads with none emergency or important work, a police spokesperson mentioned.