14 development schemes underway in Hyderabad: DCO

24 Feb, 2008

The District Co-ordination Officer (DCO) Hyderabad Aftab Ahmed Khatri has directed the officers of Regional Transport Authority (RTA) and Hyderabad Traffic Police to ensure implementation of transport and traffic rules for maintaining smooth flow of traffic on city's road.
He was presiding over a meeting of Regional Transport Authority at his camp office here on Saturday. Addressing the meeting, DCO said that district government Hyderabad was carrying out more than 14 different development schemes of flyovers, under passes, bridges and traffic engineering system and these would be enough to meet the traffic requirements of next 25 years of the city.
He said that till the schemes are completed, an effective strategy with proper observance of traffic and transport rules was needed to regulate huge traffic within available communication network.
He asked the management of RTA Hyderabad to keep strict vigil on the registered passenger vehicles to know whether the management concerned transport was following all conditions of route permit, facilitating commuters/passengers accordingly or not. He asked the officers to identify the bottlenecks in smooth traffic flow and submit with their recommendations so that the same could be incorporated in future planning.

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