The city dwellers of Dehradun are sure to face commutation problems on Monday as police would enforce ‘Zero Traffic’ for 30 minutes on the route on which President Pranab Mukherjee would travel to the State Assembly.
In addition to this the traffic would be diverted at various points of the city during the day. The President would address a special session of State Assembly on Monday.
Superintendent of Police (City) Ajay Singh said the President’s helicopter would land at GTC helipad in Garhi Cant from Jolly Grant airport and from there the motorcade would head straight to state assembly.
After addressing the assembly Mukherjee would return to Raj Bhawan. SP City informed that the entire route from GTC helipad to assembly would be Zero Traffic zone for 15 minutes each, at the time of his arrival and return and during this period no one would be allowed to enter the roads as policemen would stop traffic at barricades erected for the purpose. He accepted that people would face some problems due to the restrictions imposed in view of the visit of President.
During the time when the President is present at Jolly Grant airport, all traffic would be stopped at Ranipokhri, the vehicles heading from Dehradun to Rishikesh would have to take detour from Nepali farm during this period.
At the time of President’s stay at state assembly the traffic from Dharampur to Rispana Bridge would be diverted to Haridwar by pass. The traffic from city to Haridwar and Rishikesh would be diverted to Mussoorie bypass from Nehru Colony.
The administration and police made final preparations for the visit of President on Sunday. The traffic was stopped for some time when mock drill consisting all the vehicles on Presidential duty passed through the roads of the city.