Remember The Mandate

A lesson the concerned authorities may wish to learn from such incidents is that paying capacity\affordability of the people should be taken into account while imposing monetary penalty\tax on them, be it different types and level of taxes introduced by Swarnim Wagle or the fine imposed on an offender by traffic police. Traffic police should not forget that their job is not to collect more and more revenue for the government but to avoid the recurrence of traffic rule violation incidents, which can be achieved by making the offender feel that a mistake has been done and it should not be repeated. Monetary fine is not the most effective tool…