Amritsar: Top cop Vikram Jeet Duggal leads from the front

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 10

At a time when people preferred to remain indoors, Police Commissioner Vikram Jeet Duggal ventured out along with Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Jaswant Kaur and several other officials of the traffic wing on Friday. He waded through the rainwater accumulated on the roads barefoot in order to encourage the traffic cops and to oversee the problems faced by commuters due to the jam because of heavy rain.

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“It is appreciable how the traffic cops were performing their duties during heavy rain and ensured to streamline the traffic,” he said, adding that his prime motive now was to oversee what problems the commuters face in holy city during heavy rain showers.

From the Hall Gate area, he went barefoot to the Heritage Street near Golden Temple where heavy rainwater got accumulated like after every downpour. He interacted with the shopkeepers about the problems they faced due to traffic bottlenecks during rains or normal days.

“The water might have got accumulated near the Heritage Street due to chocking of drains. This must have led to traffic chaos near the area,” he said, while adding that he would talk to the civic authorities about this as the area witnesses a huge rush of devotees and tourists to pay obeisance at the holy Sikh shrine.

The other major problem was of parking on the road leading from Hall Gate to Darbar Sahib. In the absence of any parking lot, shopkeepers and people park their vehicles in a haphazard manner on the road. “Wrongly-parked vehicles lead to traffic jams. People should think of the problems which arise due to their negligent attitude,” he said.

He said the traffic cops were deputed at main chowks, including the bus stand, railway station, Heritage Street and other adjoining areas for streamlining the traffic.