Topic: Increasing the price of petrol is the best way to solve growing traffic and pollution problem. Do you agree or disagree?
What other measures do you think might be effective?
It is true that since last few years, widespread use of vehicles has contributed major role in distributing pollution and traffic. It is agreed that raising a petrol price would definitely wise solution to figure out traffic and pollution issue.
To begin with, availability of vehicle fuel in cheaper rate is the main reason for encouraging people to use more vehicles on the roads. It has been found in the latest research by Indian petroleum department that since they reduced price of petrol due to decrease in crude oil price in International market, people tend to use more vehicles. Thus, it is quite appropriate that if the rate of the fuels made higher would make them restricted on usage of vehicles.
The other effective measures to lower the traffic and pollution issue. Firstly, people are encouraged to use more public transport facility like railway and bus services by providing them easy and cheaper access. Additionally, local authorities should keep pollution free day once in a month when no one allowed to drive vehicles on certain roads or area and allow them to use pollution free vehicles like cycles. For example, In Ahmadabad, local municipal has decided not to allow any vehicles on particular area which is supported by most of the people and as a result there is less traffic and pollution can be seen in that area.
In Conclusion, increase in petrol price will restrict vehicle owners on their usage and other solution like encouraging public transport and observing pollution free day by ban on vehicles would really aid to solve the pollution and traffic problem. It is predicted that Government should take necessary actions to sort out this issue.