The Uttar Pradesh Government has provided 250 additional traffic police constables to Noida Traffic Police. These constables will be deployed on 206 busy intersections to handle traffic movement.
The newly inducted constables will also keep an eye on those indulging in traffic violations.
Inspector General of Police (Meerut range) Aloke Sharma is likely to convene a meeting with the city police officials to resolve the traffic woes. A senior police official said the traffic police was facing man power crunch to resolve traffic issues in Noida. City traffic police has a total of 100 traffic constables who have been deployed at 50 intersections.
lack of man power was impacting the regulation and enforcement of traffic rule on other roads, said the officer. Noida’s Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Ram Nayan Yadav said,
“The department has posted 250 traffic constables in the district. They will join duty in the coming week. They will be deployed at intersections and accident prone areas to minimise accidents in city”, he said.
Some intersections like Model Town, Mamura Chowk, Sector-60, Sector-71, labour chowk, Rajat Vihara, Sector-12/22/56, Kalindi Kunj and Salarpur Bhangel Marg have been kept under heavy traffic jam routes where traffic personnel will be deployed regularly, the SP added.