Rawat calls for streamlining traffic in urban areas

Assuring that allocations for traffic reforms will be increased in the next budget, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat today asked officials to prepare a fool-proof plan for streamlining traffic in urban areas of the state within three months.
Reviewing traffic control and management system in the urban areas of Nainital, Udhamsingh Nagar, Haridwar and Dehradun districts here, Rawat asked officials concerned to install CCTV cameras at chosen points to make the system of penalising traffic law violators more effective.
He also asked them to put up signages telling people that they were under CCTV surveillance to deter them from flouting traffic rules.

Anyone who violates traffic rules must be sternly dealt with and not allowed to go scot free at any cost, he said.
Venues for staging dharnas and demonstrations by political parties and routes for religious processions should be identified and fixed as they often result in disruption of traffic causing inconvenience to commuters, Rawat said.
The Chief Minister specifically asked DGP B S Siddhu to arrange for the manpower required to control traffic in urban areas.
He also asked Chief Secretary Shatrughna Singh to review traffic management in urban areas on regular intervals and establish co-ordination between different departments involved in the exercise.

Rawat instructed the agencies involved in the digging of roads for laying sewer pipelines in Dehradun to stop digging in fresh areas and first repair the roads already dug up for the purpose.