MPS seek solution to traffic woes, snatching menace

NEWDELHI: The deteriorating traffic situation in the national capital prompted Parliament’s standing committee on home affairs to discuss the situation with Delhi police and other agencies last week, in which lawmakers emphasised on a coordinated approach to ease bottlenecks, a release from the Rajya Sabha secretariat said on Sunday.

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The members of the panel, led by Anand Sharma, quizzed the police, municipal bodies and Union ministries on their plans to improve Delhi’s messy traffic while underlining the need to create more parking space and removing encroachment from roads.

An Opposition MP said the menace of motorbike-borne snatchers was also flagged.

“The Delhi Police should inform the panel how many such snatching cases have been resolved and how many criminals have been sent behind bars,” said the MP.

In May, the Delhi Traffic Police declared that Delhi’s roads were saturated with traffic and carrying vehicular load beyond their capacity. In an affidavit to the high court, the Delhi Police had underlined that “the traffic volume plying on both the Outer Ring Road and Guru Ravi Dass Marg is already oversaturated and beyond the designed carrying capacity of these roads”.

The Delhi Economic Survey (2017-18) said the city has 556

The Delhi Police should inform the panel how many such snatching cases have been resolved and how many criminals have been jailed