Following on the Government emphasis on smooth conduct of char dham yatra, Dehradun District Magistrate along with police head made physical inspection on the ongoing arrangement of char dham yatra at rishikesh and also inspted the ongoing construction work on national highway 58 and 72 on Saturday.
Dehradun DM SA Murugeshan instructed National highway authority of india (NHAI) officials to make alignment of the road by which traffic movement get slow down and inviting accident as well. He instructed don’t keep unnecessary construction material and excavated material and put signage as per the norms of national highway and divider and radium band so that people can understand from distance.
He also visited to Rishikesh bus stand and checked the status of drinking water, toilets, waiting room, food stalls, booking counters and enquiry centre. He asked them to make sure everything should be in place and people should not face inconvenience. Recently chief minister Trivendra singh rawat had convened a meeting with district magistrate through video conferencing and categorically asked to make sure display of rate list at each food joints so that they could not cheat pilgrims. Following on it, DM asked tourism department to enforce everyone to display rate list of their service like transporter should display their rate and hotel should also display list of each eatable strictly.
During inspection he found trucks were parked at bus stand and illegal vendors were mushrooming so he asked the SDM to remove all these and penalize them strictly. You also display contact numbers of official for so n so service anomalies on every nook and corner so that people should not face inconvenience in case of any emergency or anomalies.
He asked the bus stand officials to make sure cleanliness of toilets and bus stand as well. You sort out the problem of people immediately after getting complaint. He also warned that whosoever will adopt dillydallying attitude while discharging their part of service will be dealt with iron hand.
During inspection and SSP Nivedita Kukreti, SDM Doiwala, Shalini Negi, Rishikesh Brajesh Tiwari, CO Niharika Bhatt, NHAI project director Pradeep Gusain etc were present to brief them.