Tuesday, 01 March 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
Women patrolling squad has proved to be quite effective towards minimising random parking issues in the crowded areas of the city since its formation a month ago in Dehradun. The squad alone is taking action against about 70 vehicles on a daily basis to ensure effective traffic management in crowded areas near shopping malls, marketplaces, cinema halls among others. The traffic police has collected a penalty of about Rs eight lakh since the formation of the squad in February to tackle the issue of random parking across the city through special clump mobile vehicles. This was stated by the Superintendent of Police (traffic) Akshay Konde. He said that since the formation of the squad, there has been a huge increase in the number of vehicles towed and clumped in main areas of the city on a daily basis which has certainly improved traffic and parking issues. He informed that the squad has clumped over 2,000 vehicles in the past one month. This initiative is also impelling people to park their vehicles at designated places rather than parking randomly anywhere leading to traffic problems. The squad mainly targets the crowded places like Rajpur, Rajpur Road and Tehsil Chowk where the crowd is intense throughout the day. This has controlled random parking issues to the extent that the traffic police have started regular inspection of areas like Sahastradhara Road to check traffic irregularities, as per the SP.He said that this initiative was taken by traffic police to empower the women by increasing the involvement of the women traffic police personnel in the works which are mostly conducted by male police personnel. “We also appeal to the people to abide by traffic rules and act as responsible citizens by not parking their vehicles randomly in the public places,” added Konde.
