The Pauri District Magistrate Sushil Kumar instructed officials of departments concerned to remove encroachments from the Char Dham Yatra route especially in Srinagar, Kotdwar and Satpuli areas of the district. He also directed them to identify the sensitive and most sensitive sites on the motor roads while also repairing the maintaining the roads. The district magistrate issued these instructions while presiding over the meeting of district road safety committee held in the Pauri district headquarters.
The DM instructed the national highway officials to ensure that the roads on the Char Dham Yatra circuit are repaired and maintained in the Pauri district. In places where road cutting and widening work has been undertaken as part of the all-weather road project, retaining walls should be put in place to prevent landslide. The places on the roads which are sensitive and most sensitive roads should be provided with protective measures. In addition to this, proper road signs and hoardings should be put up in places which are known to be accident prone,. Along with identified encroachments, hoardings on bends should also be removed along the highway and in Srinagar, Kotdwar and Satpuli. A continuous checking drive should be conducted against over loading, drunken driving and speeding in order to put a check on road accidents. Kumar also directed the ARTO to arrange counselling for the commercial drivers to check the accident and to conduct their general health inspection. A rally for raising awareness on road safety will also be held on April 24.
The assistant regional transport officer Dwarika Prasad informed in the meeting that 152 licences had been cancelled for drunken driving till now and 25,000 challans had been issued apart from the 8,000 challans for riders caught without helmet.