Cabinet met after RS nomination filing
Dehradun: A slew of decisions are expected to be taken by the State Cabinet in its meeting held on Monday. The Cabinet met after the process of nomination of RS elections at Vidhan Sabha was over. At the time of filing this report the deliberations were going on. It is learnt that a total of 45 issues came up for discussion by the Cabinet.
DIG directs to ensure smooth traffic
Dehradun:Traffic headquarters director DIG Kewal Khurana directed the district traffic police personnel to ensure smooth traffic movement for the forthcoming char dham yatra. Along with district police, Khurana inspected Dehradun, Chamba and Uttarkashi routes. Construction of roads was found to be under process at some places along the pilgrimage routes. No signboards at construction sites and accident- prone areas were found on char dham yatra routes during the inspection. A letter has been sent to department concerned to have the potholes repaired and also to install sign boards at important places. Khurana said that 14 bikes would be given to Uttarkashi police to regulate traffic on Char Dham yatra routes. An arrangement of water and biscuit would be made wherever there is possibility of traffic jams due to various reasons, including landslides, he added.
Police stress to curb traffic voilation
Dehradun:The police department has sent 75,000 applications in 2017 to transport department for the traffic rules. However, just seven licenses have been cancelled while 700 licenses have been suspended for three months. In January and February, 1900 and 1700 applications were sent for the same to transport department, said traffic headquarters director DIG Kewal Khurana on Monday. He said that he would write a letter to the transport department to look such application seriously so that traffic violation on roads could be minimized.