Will bring roads to shape soon: Kamrup (M) Deputy Commissioner Biswajit Pegu

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: Wednesday night spelt disaster for Guwahati where almost every important structure on roads, mainly the GS Road and RG Baruah Road, in the State capital were dismantled and burnt ruthlessly.

Structures that were broken and burnt are mostly bus stops, streetlights, traffic points, road dividers etc.

Talking to this reporter, a traffic police personnel said, “The worst affected structures on city roads on Wednesday last were traffic points. Traffic points are structures that provide us shelter when there is rainfall or scorching sun. That’s not all. When we stand on a raised traffic point and give signals, we’re quite visible to drivers. Without traffic points, when we give our traffic signals from the road, in most of the cases, we’re not visible to the drivers. This has posed a setback in traffic management in the city.”

When his attention was drawn to the present situation in roads in Guwahati, Kamrup (M) DC Biswajit Pegu said, “Be it traffic point or streetlight or bus stop, it comes under the GMC (Guwahati Municipal Corporation). We’re going to hold a review meeting with the GMC and the PWD to rebuild the dismantled structures, and give shape to city roads. We’re going to draw a strategy to erect such structures afresh. Since the GS Road bears the maximum brunt of the violence, our priority is on it.”

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