A border meeting was held in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday involving the police officers of Uttarakhand and Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) during which the officers of both the States laid stress on co-ordination for improving traffic system as well as checking crimes along Uttarakhand- Uttar Pradesh border.
Informing, the State police spokesperson and additional Director General of police (law and order) Ashok Kumar said that the police officers from both the States sounded worried over spike in crimes and incidence of drug peddling as well as traffic congestions happening nearly daily at Daat Kali temple area.
“Commuters going to Delhi, Roorkee and parts of Uttar Pradesh are facing problems of traffic jams on weekends and during the festive seasons. To resolve such issues, police officers of both the States sat together in Saharanpur on Tuesday to frame solutions to the recurring problems, including traffic jams,” he said.
Kumar further said that it was decided at the meeting that Saharanpur police would set up a permanent police post equipped with wireless sets near Daat Kali Temple in Biharigarh (Uttar Pradesh) which would coordinate with the police post at Aasharodhi to improve things on the roads.
To resolve the recurrent traffic pileup problems at places sharing the inter-state borders, traffic plan would be drafted by the police officials of Mohand police post, Daat Kali temple police post and Aasharodhi police post, Kumar said.
The meeting also took up the issue of encroachment of the roads near Daat Kali temple by the local traders, Kumar said, adding that as per the decision of the meeting, the encroachments would be removed and action would be taken against those who park their vehicles in no-parking zone areas.
“The meeting concluded that Saharanpur-Dehradun roads would be repaired by NHAI,” he said, adding that during the meeting, the police officers took stock of the crimes like robbery, murder and vehicle thefts reported in the bordering areas over the past 10 years. “We have decided to launch regular police verification drives in such areas,” he said.
The meeting was attended among others by Garhwal range DIG Pushpak Jyoti and SSP Dehradun Nivedita Kukreti from Uttarakhand and SP Traffic Dhirendra Gunjyal DIG KS Emenual and SSP Bablu Kumar from Uttar Pradesh