Srinagar: As many as 200 notices have been served to violators for various violations through concerned Police Stations in Srinagar in last month, traffic police said.
“With the improvement in weather conditions, the economic activities across the region is gaining momentum. Likewise arrival of tourist vehicles is also increasing at a greater pace and shifting of Darbar to Summer Capital is further contributing towards increased traffic pressure on City roads,” a police spokesman said. As such, in coming days Srinagar City is expected to experience heavy rush of traffic on City roads, the spokesman said.
“Therefore Traffic Police City Srinagar has geared up to tackle the traffic challenges in the City. To manage the emerging traffic issues in the City, Traffic Police City Srinagar has intensified its drive against the Traffic violators since last one month,” the spokesman said, adding, “Besides, the regular challaning mechanism on the roads, City Police Traffic is restoring to other novel challanning procedures like serving notices to violators through concerned P/S for all the violators whose act of violations are being recorded through various CCTV Camera’s and other mobile cameras placed across the City.”
In this regard, he said, during the month of April as many as 200 notices have been served to violators for various violations through concerned Police Stations.
“Moreover special intensified drives in collaboration with local Police, Srinagar Municipality Corporation and Transport department is also being conducted to tackle the menace of road encroachment by hawkers, wrong parkings and other road violators,” he said. Likewise to create awareness among the public especially the young generation many traffic awareness programmes are being conducted in various Schools and Colleges of Srinagar, he said.
These endeavours of Traffic Police City will gain further momentum in coming days. “As such general public is requested to cooperate Traffic Police to fight the menace of Traffic violations on the city roads so as to make the city roads not only safe but also to ensure effective traffic movements on the city road,” he said.
