CPU, HPU to be used for traffic management

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City Patrol Unit and Hill Patrol Unit personnel would be effectively used for traffic management and putting check on road accidents in the state, said Kewal Khurana, DIG, director Traffic directorate. Khurana said that CPU personnel, HPU personnel and district traffic police have been strictly directed to slap challan on those caught over loading passengers, drunken driving and rash driving to be followed by necessary action for cancellation of the driving license, he said. Khurana informed that  a traffic control room had been set up at headquarter and traffic situation of the districts would be monitored from traffic headquarter. Initially on pilot project basis, Dehradun district has been selected and traffic situation is being monitored from the traffic control room and later it would be extended to other districts of the State. Infrastructure related to traffic is being developed at district level. Traffic on Char Dham Yatra routes would also be monitored from the control room. Orders have been issued for taking measures to put a check on drunken driving, overloading and rash driving.

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