City police's Petrocard system impresses MHA

The Bangalore City Police introduced the Petrocard System from November 1, 2010 as part of economy measures to put an end to unnecessary waste of man power, energy, fuel and money.

Police drivers can use the card to fill fuel from any petrol pump of the Indian Oil company, unlike earlier when the drivers could get fuel from only three designated bunks.
“An audit team of MHA visited the City recently and held discussions with me regarding the system and collected technical details. We have given them a booklet which consists of details of the system including those of drivers and their vehicles,” Bangalore City Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari told Deccan Herald.

The team was impressed with the system, which, if introduced by the Union Government, could save huge sums of money for the Central Exchequer and put an end to unnecessary expenditure.

At present, vehicles of the Central forces like Indo-Tibetan Border police, Border Security Force and Central Reserve Police Force travel upto 50 km to fill fuel from designated bunks of a particular oil firm. Each vehicle would be travelling more than 100 km, including to and fro travelling, only for the sake of fuel. 

“The City police introduced the system from November 1, 2010. At present drivers of 1,348 four wheeler and 664 two-wheelers are using the facility. The Department has saved upto Rs one crore this year. Encouraged by the results, we have decided to introduce the same for the vehicles attached to City Armed Reserve from January 1, 2011. A total of 178 four wheelers and 39 two-wheelers of CAR (North), (South) and Headquarters will be covered,” he added.