‘Traffic system will improve with coordinated efforts’

Traffic system in the State capital would improve  through the coordinated efforts of all the departments concerned and other stakeholders, said state Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Ashok Kumar while addressing a seminar on ‘road safety and traffic improvement’ held at police lines on Tuesday.

Kumar maintained that no religious, political or other type of processions would be allowed to be taken out on the principal roads in the core areas of Dehradun.

He directed Dehradun police to implement the order and added that the extent of the implementation of the order would be reviewed later.

He also said that the police officers have been directed to lodge  FIRs against the construction agencies involved in digging roads and dumping construction materials right on  the roads.   Police  alone cannot achieve  much in improving the traffic system unless other  departments as well as the people play their roles, he added.

SSP Nivedita Kukreti said that issues related to digging of roads,  keeping construction materials on the roads, allowing commercial establishments without ensuring parking facilities, encroachment of footpath, rash/drunk driving and overloading among others were raised by the participants.

 “We would act on such matters and progress would be reviewed,” she added.  Traffic directorate director DIG Kewal Khurana said that those who would send photographs of illegally modified vehicles creating noise pollution would be awarded with Rs 100.