Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, May 19: To improve the traffic management, in district Samba and Kathua, a meeting was held under the chairmanship of Dushyant Sharma, Superintendent of Police Traffic Rural Jammu today.
The aim of the meeting was to bring over all improvement in traffic so that day to day accidents could be avoided.
The SP Traffic Rural Jammu directed the presidents/members of the Transport Unions to avoid overspeeding and overloading in their PSVs which cause frequent accidents or else stern action will be taken against these violators under law.
He added that mostly PSVs use shrill horns and also violate their route permits which is heinous violation of Motor Vehicle Act/ Rules and warrants a deterrent action under law. He directed the members of the Unions to stop such practices which cause inconvenience to the general public and strictly obey the traffic rules.
The participants were briefed that the Traffic Police Rural has installed Speed Limit Boards in all four districts falling under the jurisdiction of Traffic Rural Jammu (Samba, Kathua, Rajouri, Poonch) from place to place for awareness of the drivers so that the owners brief the drivers to ensure the compliance.
It was also conveyed to all the members of these Transport Unions that the buses either interstate or state un-authorizedly write “Superfast Board” on their vehicles to catch the attention of passengers and ply with very high speed. The members were directed to ensure not to display such “Superfast Boards” on their Buses.
J.S Sumbrian, DySP Traffic Samba-Kathua and Yogesh Bamba, Sr. Pros. Officer was also present in the meeting.
The Union members who were present in the meeting were Narinder Jamwal, Jash Manhas, Abinandan Manhas, Kamal Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Kuldip Singh and Pawan Gupta.
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