SRINAGAR,
MAY 14: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan, today said
that Intelligent Traffic Lights (ITL) will become functional soon across the
Srinagar city.
The
Div Com was speaking in a meeting reviewing the progress of ITL
project. The meeting was attended by IGP Traffic Kashmir Basant Rath,
Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Purnima Mittal, Traffic Advisor to
Government Anuj Malhotra, SSP Traffic, SMC officers, Deputy Director Planning
besides representatives from DIMTS Myasa and IPE Global PMC consultants.
The
Div Com took a serious note of the dismal progress on this prestigious project
and issued strict instructions to the executing agency to expedite the
installation work at all 33 junctions on war-footing and complete the
project within the stipulated timeline.
Khan
also directed IPE Global Consultants appointed for monitoring and supervising
of the ITL project in Srinagar and Jammu cities to submit weekly reports in
consultation with the Traffic Advisor to the Divisional Commissioner’s Office.
He
said the ITL project is a major part of measures being taken for regulation and
better road engineering in Srinagar and Jammu cities and due
diligence and commitment is required on the part of all those involved in its
execution. He instructed all the concerned to work in close coordination and
complete this prestigious project on war-footing.
The
ITL system will automatically read the volume of traffic at crossings
and accident-prone areas and will reduce the occurrence of traffic
jams besides reducing the tendency of road accidents in the Srinagar city.
The project
sponsored under AMRUT scheme involves an estimated cost of Rs 4.15 crore
in the first year. The work on the project was started in December 2017.
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