Police, civic body and NGOs form the Traffic Advisory Board to address traffic problems
Police, civic body and NGOs form the Traffic Advisory Board to address traffic problemsu00a0
The city has a Traffic Advisory Board (TAB), where officials from the traffic police branch, the civic bodies in the city and Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad and various non-governmental organisations (NGOs), will come together to solve traffic problems and smoothen vehicular flow.
u00a0The first meeting of TAB was organised by the traffic branch at the Police Commissionerate yesterday at which Commissioner of Police Meeran Borwankar, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Ashish Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Manoj Patil, Regional Transport Officer Chandrakant Kharatmal and about 50 officials from various NGOs were present.
u00a0"For the first time an advisory board has been formed wherein all concerned have been inducted to find a solution to traffic problems and illegal encroachment on footpaths and cycle tracks."
Kishori Gadre of Janwani, an NGO, welcomed the move to have the advisory board.
"This is a proper forum for everybody to come together and discuss traffic issues," said Gadre.
