Drive against wrong parking launched in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, April 4

The Ludhiana traffic police under the leadership of the Deputy Commissioner (Traffic), Saumya Mishra, launched a special drive against wrong parking and wrong side driving. The purpose of the drive is to ensure no traffic jam on roads and to prevent road accidents from such violations.

DCP Saumya said ACP (Traffic) Gurdev Singh and ACP Varunjit Singh along with the traffic police personnel are personally visiting different parts of the city to check the violation of wrong parking.

In the drive, which was launched on March 30, as many as 236 challans of wrong side driving were issued in the various city areas as special nakas were set up to catch violators. The DCP said wrong side driving often becomes the cause of road mishaps and the police would strictly punish the violators.

Apart from this 189 challans of wrongly parked vehicles in city were issued on the spot and these vehicles were creating traffic hurdles on road. As many as 224 vehicles lying parked hazardously were also towed away by the towing vans from various places.

Meanwhile, city residents demanded that the traffic police should give first priority to traffic control as they alleged that traffic cops at nakas mostly prefer to issue challans and they care two hoots about traffic jam.