Leaves of traffic personnel cancelled ahead of Deepavali

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Vehicles astatine  a standstill astatine  Chandni Chowk successful  New Delhi connected  Thursday.

Vehicles astatine a standstill astatine Chandni Chowk successful New Delhi connected Thursday. | Photo Credit: PTI

Delhi Traffic Police connected Thursday cancelled each leaves of its unit to grip the rising postulation snarls connected metropolis roads successful the run-up to Deepavali. “We person made maximum deployments and are are afloat prepared to negociate the rush,” Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ajay Chaudhary said.

Delhi has been facing monolithic jams astir markets similar Lajpat Nagar, Sarojini Nagar and Chandni Chowk. Traffic question has been affected successful areas of Connaught Place, ITO and Karol Bagh too.

Social media has been bombarded with commuters expressing their exhaustion with the postulation movement. Many shared pictures of vehicles crawling oregon lasting inactive adjacent Connaught Place, Rajpath, and cardinal roads starring to Karol Bagh, and Khan Market.

At Pragati Maidan, agelong queues formed connected Mathura Road heading towards eastbound Delhi. North-west Delhi excessively witnessed congestion, with dense jams reported astatine Outer Ring Road, Netaji Subhash Place, and Madhuban Chowk successful Pitampura, users connected societal media claimed.

On the Delhi-Gurugram corridor, a fractional an hr halt was reported connected the NH-48 flyover, portion postulation adjacent Jamia Millia Islamia besides moved slowly.

Jams were reported crossed central, south, east, north-west, outer and outer-north Delhi, with users sharing pictures of packed roads. Major routes specified arsenic KG Marg, Vande Mataram Marg, Shahjahan Road, Sardar Patel Marg, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Setu, and Vikas Marg saw continuous congestion.

Commuters besides complained of jams connected Lala Hardev Sahai Marg, GT Karnal Road, Raj Niwas Marg, Roshanara Road adjacent Ghanta Ghar Chowk, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Baba Kharak Singh Road, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Road

Published - October 17, 2025 01:33 americium IST

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