Jamshedpur : The traffic police today wrote to all the five traffic police stations Sakchi, Bistupur, Golmuri, Jugsalai and Mango to start a crackdown on encroachers of roads causing obstruction to traffic in major market areas of the city from Monday.
The five traffic police stations before starting the drive will inform the sub-divisional officer Dhalbhum Prem Ranjan.
DSP R M Sinha said the anti-encroachment drive is carried out after several months but the crackdown by traffic police would be a daily affair. The crackdown will begin on Straight Mile Road stretch of nearly 500 meters between Ramleela Maidan and Sakchi roundabout which passes through commercial hub of Sakchi market on Monday.
The police have also asked make-shift shops and other encroachers to remove their things along the road. The officer said that taking confidence the traders of the area so that the encroachments along side the road can be removed.
The district traffic department has chalked out a mechanism wherein the violator of the traffic rules will be penalised. The traffic personnel are also slapping spot fine on two-wheeler and four wheeler riders for violating the traffic norms. Fines are being slapped on those who are not wearing the helmets.
Meanwhile police officials said that the drive would press a sense of alert among the people.
Officials said that the drive is one way of alerting the people from violating traffic rules. There is nothing unusual in carrying this exercise in order to teach the rules to the citizens.
Mostly petty shops and kiosks erected by fruit-sellers that had been a feature of the Sakchi led traffic congestion a perennial problem here.
�The traffic police have been enforcing the law with a firm hand. But there is no respite to the increasing number of accidents. At the same time most of the city roads are narrow. Some are uneven and with curves. And most of the roadsides are thickly vegetated hampering the vision of road users,� said Prakash Sharma, a social worker.
Despite claims by the authorities, larger parts in the city are still under control of several unscrupulous persons. Officials of Traffic Police went on to add that the eviction drive is taken up in view of a plan to widen the road to enable of operation of buses and traffic through it.
