Face2News/New Delhi
There was a water logging following heavy rain since morning hours, which resulted in traffic snarls across the city on Sunday. Calls of traffic congestion, failure of traffic signals and water logging as well as uprooting of trees and potholes on the roads were received in the Traffic Control Room. Incidences of power failure were reported in many parts of the city which resulted in non-functioning of signals and manning of signalized intersections by traffic personnel to regulate traffic.
The Traffic Control Room flashed messages to all DCsP/Traffic-Ranges, ACsP/Traffic-Districts and TIs/Circles to mobilize maximum number of staff, motorcycle patrol teams, Disaster Management Vehicles and cranes in the field to ensure manual regulation of traffic at intersections where there was no power supply, remove broken down vehicles, remove uprooted trees and restore normal flow of traffic. Approximate 3450 Traffic police personnel were deployed for the same who regulated the traffic in entire Delhi using Rain Coats and Gum Boots.
Messages through Traffic Control Room were also flashed to Control Rooms of other civic agencies like Horticulture Departments of NDMC, PWD, MCD, etc. They were also pressed into for using local resources and manpower and attending to the situation and calls with due alertness, alacrity and promptness.
Trees were removed along footpaths and central verges and traffic movement was managed in best possible manner. The operations at some locations are still going on and services of other departments are also being taken.
