DC Kupwara chairs Road Safety Committee meeting

• Directs concerned to ensure zero tolerance against overloading, other traffic violations

KUPWARA: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kupwara, Ayushi Sudan today chaired the District Road Safety Committee (DRSC) meeting at Mini-Meeting Hall of DC Office Complex Kupwara to deliberate on enforcement of road safety measures and ensuring smooth traffic flow in the district.

The meeting extensively discussed better management of traffic, including identification of black spots, blind spots, improvement of lighting on vital roads, clearance of ROWs, provision of Trauma centre on national highway.

The DC also took a detailed report about the tasks assigned to different departments during the previous Road Safety Committee meetings. She directed all the members to make coordinated efforts to ensure safety on roads and prompt emergency care.

Ayushi stressed upon all the stakeholder departments to be proactive, work in complete synergy and take all required measures to decongest the main towns of the district for smooth flow of traffic.

She stressed on repairing black spots, initiating remedial measures at blind spots, installation of signage and painting of roads at appropriate spots. OC Beacon on the occasion appraised the chair that Beacon will soon install crash Bearers on 12- km road area, as they have procured the crash bearers. He further said that Beacon is also procuring steel wire row- lines for roads of snowbound areas.

Ex. Engineer R&B Handwara was directed to fill the potholes on Handwara–Sopore road and other important roads of the district, install the longitudinal gradients to control the speed and erect road signage at proper places.

Emphasizing on putting a check on over-loading, curbing other traffic rule violations, and enforcing strict actions against violators, DC said “Over-loading is one of the reason of the accidents in the district, it needs to be checked, and all police nakas in the district will check and challan the overloading of passenger and goods vehicles without fail and take strict action against the violators”.

The DC also instructed the concerned to increase deployment of police personnel at Kupwara and Handwara towns to address the issue of traffic congestion. EO Municipal Council Kupwara was directed to identify two more parking slots at Kupwara town and remove all road side and footpath encroachments on Kupwara Bye-Pass road and hospital road.

The meeting was attended by ACR Kupwara, ASP, SE R&B Circle Kupwara, CMO, Executive Engineer R&B Handwara, Ex. Engineer PMGSY, ARTO Kupwara, OC Beacon, EO MC Kupwara and other committee members.