Ahead of the festive season, the Chandigarh Vyapar Mandal raised traffic and law and order issues with the Chandigarh Police.

Ahead of the festive season, the Chandigarh Vyapar Mandal raised traffic and law and order issues with the Chandigarh Police.

Chandigarh 14 October ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : Keeping in mind the huge crowd expected in various markets of Chandigarh during the upcoming festive season, a delegation of Chandigarh Vyapar Mandal (CBM), the apex body of traders of the city, led by its President Sanjeev Chadha, today met Sumer Pratap Singh, SSP Traffic and Kanwardeep Kaur, SSP, Chandigarh. The delegation submitted memorandums regarding smoothening of traffic arrangements and ensuring safety in various markets of the city. The delegation informed police officials that during festivals, large crowds of shoppers and increased vehicle traffic in markets create traffic jams and security issues. Effective action is essential to address these issues in a timely manner.

The major demands related to traffic management include immediate road marking on roads in all markets, ensuring deployment of traffic police in major markets during evening rush hours, using nearby vacant spaces and grounds for additional temporary parking during festivals, taking strict action against unauthorised hawkers encroaching on designated parking spaces and streamlining the entry and exit arrangements for vehicles in crowded markets. The major demands related to security and law and order included increasing police beats and foot patrolling in the markets, ensuring better coordination between beat officers and heads of the concerned market welfare associations, maintaining police presence in the markets till late evening till shops close, ensuring regular and effective patrolling by PCR and police to strengthen the sense of security among traders and customers, and checking the availability and functioning of CCTV cameras in and around the markets and improving the arrangements as per requirement.

Both the senior police officers listened to the delegation seriously and assured all possible cooperation and necessary steps to maintain smooth traffic in the markets and strengthen the security arrangements during the festive season. On this occasion, the security advisory issued by Chandigarh Police for traders and market associations was also handed over to Sanjeev Chadha, President, CBM, so that it could be disseminated to every market association and necessary precautions could be taken. The delegation included senior CBM officials Balwinder Singh, General Secretary, Radhey Lal Bajaj, Finance Secretary Navdeep Sharma, Vice President and Ravinder Singh Billa, Executive Member.