Wednesday, 13 April 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
The Dehradun district magistrate R Rajesh Kumar has ordered the officials of the municipal body of Mussoorie, the Forest department and Mussoorie-Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) to work in coordination with each other to mark suitable parking places to improve parking and traffic conditions in the area.
A meeting was conducted between Kumar and representatives of local businessmen of Mussoorie on Tuesday to discuss their issues during the tourism season in which officials of the departments concerned were present too. He gave necessary directions to the officials in the project of marking vending zones and improving parking arrangements in Mussoorie. The DM was informed that there are 154 registered vendors in Mussoorie.
The officials from the forest department informed the DM that surveys of the notified sites are being conducted through the Survey of India (SOI). The department has sent the maps of 167 sites out of a total of 218 surveyed sites while the work is being done on the remaining sites. The DM directed the department to speed up the process and asked to call SOI officials in the next meeting. He also directed the forest department, MDDA and municipal body to work in coordination with each other to mark parking places in Mussoorie as parking becomes a serious issue during peak tourism season and causes traffic congestion.
The officials of Jal Nigam also updated Kumar that the works of providing drinking water and road repairing works near Mall Road have been finished whereas construction work on the stretch of 40 kilometres out of a total of 85 kilometres is still underway in Mussoorie.
The DM has directed the officials concerned to all possible measures to speed up the work and finish the work as much as possible before the peak of the tourism season.
