DELHI PARALYZED

DELHI PARALYZED

The Armed forces and the MEA battled out the Chinese Incursion recently, which lead the Chinese to withdrew. But the common man of Delhi faced the heat of Chinese from 19 to 21 May. The 3 days Chinese Premier’s Incursion into Delhi.  Delhi was ransacked by his visit. The untimely closure of SP Marg, the main artery which connects North and South Delhi, created massive problems to the people of Delhi.

When commuters started moving to office on a Monday morning, they saw the roads closed, which lead to huge traffic jams all along Delhi. The Police has diverted the traffic through already congested Delhi roads due to Delhi Metro construction, caused Delhi to paralyse. People could not reach their places of duty on time, at places the jam increased the commutation time by about 2 hours. All roads were clogged due to untimely increase of traffic. Ambulances could be seen struck up in the jam; I only hope the patients in the ambulances are safe. Questions that comes to my mind is, was it a failure on our part to manage things? Or was it over ensuring a reason for this? If a patient dies in ambulance due to jam who would be responsible, is it the Chinese PM?

Well, There is always a learning because Delhi will always be prone to such VVIP movements, so a composite fool proof system should be made with out causing inconvenience to our own populace inorder to appease some one else. Certain steps which could have been taken up my the Law Enforcement Agencies:

 Location of stay: Instead of placing such VVIPs in the heart of the City, he could be placed towards onside, so that the effect is localised. If such facility does not exist why not create one.

Why Not a Stay in the Rashtrapathi Bhawan. A 350 room    building meant for the stay of our President, cant it house a    VVIP. The VVIP could be heli picked and dropped so that there would be no requirement for traffic diversion and blocking of roads.

Dissemination of information.  The law enforcement agencies have not done adequately in informing the people about the closure of various roads and diversions. This information dissemination system should improve.

Adequate alternate arrangements.         Due to large strength of Police on VVIP duties, hardly any policemen could be seen controlling the traffic. We could           understand the reason as it is due to the limited strength available. Hence measures should have been taken by utilizing the services of           NSS Volunteers, Scouts and Guides for management of traffic.

Lastly I would like to appreciate the efforts of the law Enforcement agencies for an Incident free conduct of the Chinese premiers Visit, even though some hardships were borne by the populace of Delhi. My only suggestion is implementation of some of the above things would bring necessary solace to the people of Delhi against the ever increasing VVIP movements.