GURGAON: When driving in Gurgaon, be sure not to flout traffic rules. Or you could end up with an "I AM UNCIVILIZED" sticker on your car's windscreen.

The traffic police have hit upon an innovative way to teach driving manners to a city notorious for flouting rules and printed these yellow stickers with the words written in red. For starters, the drive is aimed at punishing people who park their cars in the wrong place. There will be no challans, just the stickers, which police hope will drive home the point much more effectively than a fine.

The drive started on Monday evening near Good Earth City Centre in Sector 50. Initially, the police are focusing on the stretch from Mayfield Garden in Sector 51 to Park Hospital in Sector 47. The idea is make people realize that following traffic norms is part of responsible civic behaviour.

"We have to use different means because people do not understand how not following traffic norms affects the city. It affects the speed of traffic, leading to jams. We want people to understand their civic responsibility," said DCP (traffic) Vinod Kaushik.

Since the stretch chosen for the drive witnesses heavy jams during evenings due to haphazardly parked vehicles near the shopping complexes, the drive is undertaken during the evening peak hours — between 5pm and 7pm. Cops pasted around 30 stickers on Monday and around 20 stickers on Tuesday.

"We have been instructed to not say anything to the offender or challan the vehicle. Our duty includes only posting the sticker on the vehicle which is not parked properly," said traffic in-charge Suresh Kumar. Traffic cops have been instructed to make a video of a vehicle not parked properly after pasting the stickers.

