Kathmandu, April 25:

The Metropolitan Police Traffic Division (MPTD) today launched traffic police SMS service to provide traffic information to mobile subscribers.

The programme has been launched with the help of FOCUSONE, a private company, through which mobile subscribers can get traffic information of the Kathmadu Valley by sending SMS to 4321, MPTD chief Bhishma Prasai said.

“People can inform about their vehicles being lost and can ask traffic police whether their lost vehicles have been found through the SMS,” Prasai said at a function organised at the MPTD.

The MPTD would provide more reliable and accurate traffic information to be updated from traffic police control room.

The premium SMS service is being provided through the SMS short code.

“People should type the word — jam — and send it to 4321 to know about the places having traffic jam.

Also to know about jam in any specific place, the mobile users should type the and the place they want to know after a space,” according to a press release issued by the MPTD.

“Each SMS will be charged Rs two for the Nepal Telecom subscribers and Rs three for the Mero Mobile subscribers,” the release informed.

On the occasion, Suraj Baidhya, chairman of Baidhya Group, handed over a one-room building constructed on the premises of the MPTD to Prasai.

Named as Forum for Justice, the building would be a room for discussion among people and traffic police personnel on any kind of issues related to traffic.

“People, who think they are booked by traffic police without any fault or who think they didn’t get justice in any traffic-related case, can file complaints at MPTD and discuss on the issues,” Prasai told at the function.

Baidhya said his organisation helped the MPTD by establishing the building to create traffic awareness among the people in the Kathmandu Valley.