The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided in principle to introduce a traffic management system to streamline the traffic and a sophisticated security and surveillance system to check criminal activities and to curb the same in the metropolis. This was decided at a high level meeting held at Chief Minister Secretariat Peshawar with KP Chief Minister, Pervez Khattak in the Chair.
The meeting was given a detailed briefing on the proposed traffic management system and security and surveillance system. The CM directed the concerned authorities to hold a joint meeting of transport, police, Peshawar development authority, local government and other relevant departments to finalise the modalities of the proposed schemes and to implement the same without further delay.
It was decided that instead of traditional means modern sophisticated technologies would be benefited to organise the traffic system and to improve the security system, and in that regard the provincial government would extend all type of financial and administrative support to the concerned departments. It was also decided in the meeting that initially the traffic and security system would be started in Peshawar as a project and subsequently it would be extended to other districts of the province.
Addressing the participants of meeting, the CM said all types of illegal encroachments would be removed at all cost to ensure the uninterrupted flow of traffic in the city, adding that no political or other pressure would be entertained in that regard.
The meeting also decided that implementation of the scheme at operational level would be entrusted to police, and a central control room would be set up with operational staff consisting of the officials of all the relevant departments.
Inspector General KP Police Ehsan Ghani, Deputy Inspector General Traffic Police Awal Khan, Secretary Transport Department Sikandar Qayyum, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Ashfaq Ahmad, Director Transport Manzoor Ahmad and other concerned authorities attended the meeting.