Advisors to Governor, K Vijay Kumar and K K Sharma today convened a meeting of officers to review traffic management in Srinagar city.
Chief Secretary, BVR Subrahmanyam, Principal Secretary HomeShaleen Kabra, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh, DivisionalCommissioner Kashmir Baseer Khan, IG Traffic Alok Kumar, IG Kashmir SwayamPrakash Pani, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Chaudry, SMCCommissioner Khurshid Sanai, SSP Srinagar Dr. Mohd Haseeb Mughal, SSP TrafficMuzaffar Ahmad Shah and other senior officers were also present in the meeting.
Divisional Commissioner apprised the meeting about thevarious issues regarding traffic managements in the city, includingrehabilitation of street Hawkers/Vendors occupying roads and pavements.
The Advisors directed the concerned officers for immediatecensus of all street hawkers and vendors and placing them at designatedrehabilitation slots to stop their proliferation along roads and pavements.
They also directed for the regulation of variousunauthorized parking places and asked interdepartmental corporations amongvarious concerned departments for better and hassle-free traffic management inthe city.
The meeting also had discussion of National Highway trafficmanagement and it was given out that the department plans to establishCCTV/Communication Control Rooms at various locations along the Highway on thepattern of one established at Chenneni-Nashri Tunnel.
It was informed that the setup will improve monitoringtraffic management system on real-time, besides keeping an eye on traffic ruleviolators.
The Advisors stressed on installation of Public Address (PA)system on all vehicles used for Traffic Management.
They also asked the concerned officers for installing CCTVsand PA systems at all congestion/Choke points hampering traffic movements inthe city.