Indore: The campaign for traffic improvement is continuing in Indore city. This campaign will be made more effective by giving it momentum. Under the campaign, technical improvement of roads and intersections, beautification, removing encroachment from roads and footpaths to make them obstacle-free, converting basements into parking, and other activities are going on with the joint efforts of District Administration , Municipal Corporation , Traffic Police , Indore Development Authority , Public Works and other departments. To give momentum to the campaign, a meeting of the District Road Safety Committee was held here today under the chairmanship of Collector Shri Ashish Singh.
Municipal Corporation Commissioner Mr. Shivam Verma , DCP Traffic Mr. Arvind Tiwari , Additional Commissioner Mr. Rohit Sisonia , Smart City CEO Mr. Divyank Singh , Additional Collector Mrs. Jyoti Sharma and Mr. Roshan Rai , Indore Development Authority Chief Executive Officer Mr. R.P. Ahirwar, officials of other related departments and traffic experts were present in the meeting. In order to ease traffic on the main roads of the city, the progress of the campaign being run to take action against buildings whose basement parking is being used for other purposes was reviewed. It was told that positive results of this campaign have come to the fore. So far, action has been taken to seal 134 buildings in all the wards for using their parking for other purposes. Out of these, 7 basements were closed by filling them with CMD waste. Also, basements of 72 buildings have been converted into parking. This has provided parking facility for more than two thousand two-wheelers and four-wheelers. This has helped in making the parking system and traffic smooth. Such campaigns will continue continuously. Collector Mr. Ashish Singh directed that the basements of the remaining buildings should also be converted into parking lots soon. Action should be taken against those who do not convert the basement into parking lots.
In the meeting, he directed that it should be ensured that vehicles are parked only at designated places , action should be taken against those who obstruct traffic by parking vehicles on the roads. In the meeting, Collector Mr. Ashish Singh directed that it should be ensured that no speed breaker is built without the approval of the Road Safety Committee. Approval should be obtained from the Road Safety Committee for building speed breakers. It is being seen that speed breakers are being built without technical guidance, due to which there is always a possibility of an accident.
In the meeting, the proposal to operate buses going towards Gujarat, Rajasthan and Delhi from ISBT located at Kumedi was approved. On this occasion, Collector Shri Ashish Singh reviewed the actions being taken zone-wise to remove encroachment and other obstacles from roads and footpaths. He directed to make the campaign being run in this regard more effective by giving it more speed. He said that the said action should be expedited by identifying new routes as well. Collector Shri Singh discussed with all the zonal officers present in the meeting and inquired about the actions being taken. He told all the zonal officers to continue taking such action continuously. After persuasion and action, strict action should be taken against those who obstruct traffic on the road or footpath by placing material again. Shri Singh said that there is more need to do such work in Indore. Continuous monitoring should be done at the places where action has been taken. It should be ensured that there is no encroachment again and no one obstructs the traffic.
