The City traffic went haywire during President Ram Nath Kovind’s two-day visit of the State which started on Friday. People had to face traffic jams at several place during the day.

Kovind reached Ranchi at 2 pm at Birsa Munda Airport of the State Capital.  The traffic police prepared the outline of the traffic system. Traffic on the square-intersections, of the routes through which the President’s carcade passed, was stopped for some time in view of security. In such a situation, those who wanted to reach somewhere on time, they got disturbance.

Due to closure of intersection people had to travel long distances in Kanke Road area because this is the route through which President reached Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) to attend convocation programme.

On February 29, Kovind will attend a Vikas Bharti programme at Bishnupur, Gumla at 10:20 am and proceed to Baidyanath temple, Deoghar at 1 pm. The entourage will return to the Raj Bhawan on the same day while the dignitaries are scheduled to leave for Raipur on the morning of March 1.The President had earlier visited Ranchi in September 2019.

 In view of VIP traffic, the route also diverted from the level of traffic police in some places. Adequate numbers of traffic police were deployed at every square and intersection. Apart from these, traffic police personnel were also posted on the street and cutting road.

The traffic police of the Ranchi District made arrangement of four alternate routes to the airport from February 28 to March 1, four alternate routes to the airport have been made by the administration in view of the President’s three-day visit.