Identify public transport vehicles stops and remove encroachments from footpaths: Sandhu
Friday, 21 April 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Chief secretary SS Sandhu on Thursday ordered the traffic police and transport department to identify stops of public transport vehicles like auto rickshaws and electric rickshaws to ensure their proper operation in cities. He also instructed the officials concerned to act against encroachments on roads and footpaths for proper traffic management. He also directed the officials to constitute a separate budget head to revamp footpaths in the cities.
Sandhu issued these directions in the Integrated Metropolitan Traffic Authority meeting held at the Secretariat. He also asked the officials concerned to work on short-term and long-term measures to improve traffic management besides ensuring strict compliance of traffic rules. He instructed them to take action against those breaking traffic rules like parking vehicles in no-parking zones among others as per the law and impose challans accordingly. He also asked Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) to spread information about traffic rules through various means including signage across the city. He said that the issue of traffic congestion will be resolved completely only when each citizen will start following traffic rules. He asked departments concerned to make awareness videos and spread them through social media platforms to raise awareness among people.
The officials said that the municipal corporation of Dehradun and district administration are taking consistent action to remove encroachments from roads. The vice chairman of MDDA Banshidhar Tiwari informed Sandhu in the meeting that authorities are in constant touch with administrations of several schools for using their respective playgrounds as parking space after school hours and most of them are ready to cooperate. The schools are also being asked to park their school buses in their premises too. He said that malls have also been asked to utilise their parking space to full capacity. They have been directed to display the information outside the malls when their parking space is full, added Tiwari. The Dehradun senior superintendent of police Daleep Singh Kunwar said that police are imposing challan for traffic violations using CCTV and drones.
