long beelines of vehicles were witnessed with huge traffic jams across all the surrounding areas of swearing-in ceremony venue Jamboree ground on Saturday in the State capital.
Residents of lal Ghati and VIP road were troubled and chose to remain confined in their houses as with the passing of every VIP through the area police used to block the traffic and commuters felt helpless in the situation. In a bid to leave the venue and reach the highway, the vehicles clogged most of the roads leaving numerous vehicles stalled.
Piplani square was one of the most congested areas as it was the junction of diversion for several vehicles which created traffic jams several times during the day.
Route from Govindpura to Chetak Bridge, Rachna Nagar to Chetak Bridge were heavily congested and stalled the traffic which eased only after traffic police intervened to manage the traffic. Traffic from Habibganj to Chetak Bridge also faced severe problems of traffic congestion.
Traffic problems were also witnessed at Hoshangabad road. The Govindpura turning also faced traffic jams as the vehicles towards Hoshangabad chose the route from Jamboree ground to Hoshangabad road.
Earlier, to avoid inconvenience for school students a holiday was declared on Saturday in CBSE schools of BHEl Township and due to the Ijtema several school buses were acquired by the administration which resulted into the closing of schools on Saturday.
An Assistant Inspector of Police Traffic SK Singh who was deployed during the swearing in ceremony suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died later during treatment.