Traffic Jam In Delhi: Big comments of Supreme Court, Public roads should not be blocked during protests

New Delhi. The Supreme Court has made important remarks during the hearing on Friday during the protest march between Noida and Ghaziabad to Delhi. The country's highest court said that public roads should not be blocked during protests. The court made this remark during the hearing on the petition by Monica Agarwal, a resident of Noida. During the last hearing, the Supreme Court had taken cognizance of the trouble of going from Noida to Delhi in two separate cases and traffic chaos at Kaushambi in Ghaziabad. Along with this, the court had issued a notice to the Central Government and Delhi Police on the complaint that it took two hours instead of 20 minutes to go from Noida to Delhi. Apart from this, a traffic management plan was sought from the committee, while constituting a nine-member committee of high officials of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi on the traffic chaos of Ghaziabad Kaushambi. Residents have reached the Supreme Court in both cases.

Noida resident Monika Agarwal has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, pleading that going from Noida to Delhi is like a nightmare as it takes two hours to cross the road which is fixed in 20 minutes. While in the case of Ghaziabad Kaushambi, the President of the Kaushambi Apartment Resident Welfare Association and the Ashapush Vihar Vihar Housing Development Committee have approached the Supreme Court.

 In the last hearing, the court has ordered the committee to prepare and present a traffic management plan. The court has said that while preparing the plan, all aspects like regulating traffic and parking of public service vehicles have to be identified. The court has asked the committee to present the plan till the next hearing. The court said that the traffic problem of Kaushambi is not just of Ghaziabad or Uttar Pradesh alone, in which the East Delhi Municipal Corporation will also have to work together. Delhi Transport buses also need to be seen at Anand Vihar Terminal. The overall traffic plan should be prepared and presented in the court.

Raising the issue of traffic problems on behalf of the residents of Kaushambi during the hearing, it was said that the residents were disturbed due to vehicles and traffic chaos. Five points of trouble have been raised. Three-wheeler parking on service road and other roads, not enough space for parking of public service vehicles. Pollution due to congestion of buses of UP Transport Corporation, pressure of vehicles honking and absence of law enforcing system causing trouble to residents and pedestrians. However, the case is already being heard and plans and aspects were also put forward by various administrators of UP. The NGT has also placed orders. The court said that the measures suggested by the NGT should continue but it appears that there is not much change at the ground level.