By Tahir Mushtaq (TNI)
GNS JAMMU, : With Management of rising vehicles become a nightmare for the administration in the rapidly growing urban centers of Jammu and Kashmir, government has decided to formulate a comprehensive City Transport Policy for scientific management of the vehicles.
Sources said that some private consultants are being hired by the Transport Department to do a detailed study of traffic pattern, road use and ways to deal with the jams at peak hours.
Officials said that this will be for first time that such a detailed scientific study is being conducted in Jammu and Kashmir to effectively manage nearly 800000 vehicles which ply on the roads including thousands of floating vehicles which enter the state daily carrying pilgrims of Vaishno Devi shrine and other religious places in Jammu region.
“To streamline the regulation of traffic smoothly in the cities of Jammu and Srinagar, a comprehensive City Transport Policy is being introduced very soon.
This has become imperative keeping in view the problems administration face daily as the present infrastructure was not expected to deal with such rush ”, said a government officer.
Minister for Transport Qamar Ali Akhoon said, “We are talking to some private consultants and scientific study would be conducted to suggest ways to streamline the traffic”.
Sources said that number of awareness programmes are being organized in capital cities of the state and at district headquarters to keep people updated about the need to obey traffic rules.
It is pertinent to mention here that close to eight lakh vehicles both commercial and private are running on the roads of the state and added to this are the thousands of floating vehicles which daily enter here.
So far there are no decided traffic policy and it sometimes it get freaky while dealing with the traffic flow.
“Traffic and transport authorities should have to work in tandem for strictly implementation of traffic rules to curb accidents to save precious lives, besides to avoid un-necessary jams”, said a official.
Data says that so far 7, 19,221 vehicles have been registered upto ending December last. Of these 1, 26,180 are commercial and 5,93,041 are non-commercial, the meeting was informed.
He said that after the completion of the prescribed formalities, the applicant is required to face a test to ascertain his eligibility, ability efficiency to satisfaction of the licensing authority and a learner licenses is issued with validity for six months.
Transport department has already gone strict in giving driving licences, under Rule 15 of Motor Vehicle Rules 1989, no person is allowed to appear for the test of competence to drive unless he has held a learner license for a period of at least 30 days.
GNS JAMMU, : With Management of rising vehicles become a nightmare for the administration in the rapidly growing urban centers of Jammu and Kashmir, government has decided to formulate a comprehensive City Transport Policy for scientific management of the vehicles.
Sources said that some private consultants are being hired by the Transport Department to do a detailed study of traffic pattern, road use and ways to deal with the jams at peak hours.
Officials said that this will be for first time that such a detailed scientific study is being conducted in Jammu and Kashmir to effectively manage nearly 800000 vehicles which ply on the roads including thousands of floating vehicles which enter the state daily carrying pilgrims of Vaishno Devi shrine and other religious places in Jammu region.
“To streamline the regulation of traffic smoothly in the cities of Jammu and Srinagar, a comprehensive City Transport Policy is being introduced very soon.
This has become imperative keeping in view the problems administration face daily as the present infrastructure was not expected to deal with such rush ”, said a government officer.
Minister for Transport Qamar Ali Akhoon said, “We are talking to some private consultants and scientific study would be conducted to suggest ways to streamline the traffic”.
Sources said that number of awareness programmes are being organized in capital cities of the state and at district headquarters to keep people updated about the need to obey traffic rules.
It is pertinent to mention here that close to eight lakh vehicles both commercial and private are running on the roads of the state and added to this are the thousands of floating vehicles which daily enter here.
So far there are no decided traffic policy and it sometimes it get freaky while dealing with the traffic flow.
“Traffic and transport authorities should have to work in tandem for strictly implementation of traffic rules to curb accidents to save precious lives, besides to avoid un-necessary jams”, said a official.
Data says that so far 7, 19,221 vehicles have been registered upto ending December last. Of these 1, 26,180 are commercial and 5,93,041 are non-commercial, the meeting was informed.
He said that after the completion of the prescribed formalities, the applicant is required to face a test to ascertain his eligibility, ability efficiency to satisfaction of the licensing authority and a learner licenses is issued with validity for six months.
Transport department has already gone strict in giving driving licences, under Rule 15 of Motor Vehicle Rules 1989, no person is allowed to appear for the test of competence to drive unless he has held a learner license for a period of at least 30 days.
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