Heavy traffic jam was witnessed in the state capital on Monday, vehicles were seen snarling from morning to evening,due to the callous attitude of police and administration officials.
Traffic was stopped inappropriately at several places without proper diversions and the common people were let suffer.
All this mismanagement wasdone in the name of visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Barricading has been done on many routes and several sub-lanes coming to main roads. Rehearsals were also done in the morning due to this also the roads were closed.
PM Modi is coming to Bhopal on Tuesday and will stay here for about 4 hours. After Rani Kamalapati Railway Station, he will also attend the program to be held at Motilal Nehru Stadium near Lal Parade Ground, wherever Modi will pass, those roads will remain closed. Due to this, barricading was done on all the routes Since Sunday. Due to this, the passers-by faced difficulties in moving on the roads. Be it New Market or Link Road No. 1, Link number 2, Jail Road, in front of Police Control room, Hoshangabad Road, vehicles were moving at a crawl. Cops were seen only stopping the traffic, but no efforts were seen to manage the crowd or traffic.
Rehearsal was also done after barricading in the morning. Due to this the roads were closed, which caused the situation of jam on many roads. Only pictures of long queues of vehicles were visible from far away. The jam opened after about an hour. Because of this, many government officials and employees were late in going to their offices. Officers and employees arrived late, especially in government and private offices located in the area of two to four kilometers of MP Nagar including Satpura, Secretariat, Vidhyanchal, Collectorate.
The Prime Minister is coming to Bhopal to flag off Vande Bharat in Bhopal. Due to which there will be diversion of many routes on Tuesday as per the requirement. All goods, heavy, commercial and permitted vehicles will be diverted from 7 am to 12 noon. All types of permitted goods vehicles, entry of heavy vehicles will remain completely closed from DB Mall Tirahe towards Jail HQ Rotary, Lily Square towards Police HQ, Roshanpura towards Gandhi Park Tirahe towards the conference venue.