The State police worried over the continuing accidents taking regular toll of lives, the State Director General of police Anil K Raturi asked the officers to further tighten their belts and go the whole hog to control the road mishaps by coming down heavily on rash/drunk driving, overloading and other such menace.
While presiding over a traffic review meeting at police headquarters on Tuesday, the State police chief said that over 100 traffic police personnel would be posted in the accident prone areas of Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar while 30 of them would be deployed in Pauri and Tehri districts, the four districts aside from Dehradun accounting for a large share of the road mishap casualties reported over the past few years.
Besides, the district police chiefs would identify accident- prone areas, bottle necks and black spots, he said, adding that every possible measure like installing warning boards would be taken to avert accidents.
Raturi invoked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that awareness campaign would be conducted using local languages like Garhwali, Kumaoni and Jaunsari and also the social networking sites to make the people aware of the traffic norms and the imperative of their abiding by them for their own safety on the road.
He also stressed on improving the traffic system in the state while expressing concern over the people facing traffic pile-ups daily.
Uttarakhand being a state greatly dependent on tourism, the tourists must not face traffic congestions which might have a dampening effect on the prospective tourists, he said, adding that new parking venues would be developed in all the districts of the state.
He further said that police must deal with the encroachers with a heavy hand and have all the encroachers booked under section 133 of CrPC. He asked police to work in conjunction with various departments like MDDA, PWD and NHIA to build new flyovers and parking zones and improve the road condition.
Among others present on the occasion were additional DGP Ashok Kumar, ADGP Ram Singh Meena, IG Deepam Seth, DIG Pushpak Jyoti, traffic directorate director DIG Kewal Khurana, SP Traffic, Dehradun lokeshwar Singh and SP Traffic, Haridwar Manjunath TC.