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With lakhs of radical expected to question during the upcoming Sankranti festival, the Telangana authorities has enactment successful spot an extended enactment program to guarantee creaseless postulation question connected nationalist highways, peculiarly the engaged Hyderabad–Vijayawada corridor.
Roads and Buildings Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy chaired a high-level reappraisal gathering astatine Dr B.R. Ambedkar State Secretariat to finalise preventive measures, keeping successful presumption past experiences of terrible postulation congestion.
Addressing officials, the Minister directed that each departments indispensable beryllium connected work for 3 days earlier and 3 days aft the festival, and dense vehicles should beryllium restricted from utilizing highways during highest festive question days.
A peculiar incidental absorption and power country volition beryllium acceptable up, with 108 ambulances, aesculapian teams, gross officials, police, R&B and NHAI unit placed connected continuous alert.
Mr Venkat Reddy announced that helium would personally show the concern by touring the highways connected a motorcycle and behaviour tract inspections astatine captious congestion points specified arsenic Toopranpet and Abdullapurmet.
He instructed officials to guarantee that determination are nary hour-long postulation snarls connected the Hyderabad–Vijayawada highway, which witnesses astir 1 lakh conveyance movements per time during the festival season.
The Minister besides revealed that helium has written to Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, requesting impermanent toll exemption during Sankranti, arsenic lakhs of radical would beryllium travelling during the festival and besides for the Medaram Jatara. He said helium was prepared to conscionable the Union Minister personally, if required.
“If necessary, the R&B Department is acceptable to marque nominal payments astatine toll plazas to guarantee escaped travel of traffic,” helium said.
Officials were instructed to halt lane closures, roadworthy works involving dense machinery and operation enactment during highest festive days, and to transportation retired unavoidable works lone astatine nighttime erstwhile postulation is minimal.
Special attraction volition beryllium paid to congestion-prone stretches specified arsenic LB Nagar–Vanasthalipuram, Panama Godown, Hayathnagar, Ramoji Film City, and areas similar Choutuppal, Narketpally, Kattangur, Peddakaparthy, Gundrampally and Tekumatla.
The reappraisal gathering was attended by R&B Special Chief Secretary Vikas Raj, Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri Collector Hanumanth Rao, Nalgonda Collector Ila Tripathi among others.
