Very rightly the Inspector General of Traffic Police Basant Rath has told the newly elected Mayor Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) that management of traffic in Srinagar city is not the domain of Mayor SMC but the city traffic police. Right may be Mayor SMC Junaid Matoo that barely within two days after his joining he saw his office flooded with the complaints of traffic mess in Srinagar but it is not the domain of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) to intervene in the matters of traffic management in the summer capital Srinagar. If Mayor Matoo was too concerned about increasing traffic chaos in Srinagar city better it would have been for him to come out with SMC’s men and machine to facilitate the work of traffic police department by launching a massive drive against the encroachers on roads and footpaths which is the domain of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC). Instead of engaging into a war of words with IGP traffic police Basant Rath over the traffic mismanagement in Srinagar on micro blogging social networking site “twitter” the Mayor Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) could have started his work with a big offensive against encroachers on footpath and roads in city centre instead of visiting slum areas in the interiors of Srinagar city.
To facilitate improvement in the traffic management system in Srinagar city the Mayor SMC has to seek the cooperation of the traffic police for removing encroachments but not to fight with it to attract more criticism from the people who see the encroachers becoming obstructionists on the roads in Srinagar city.
Mayor Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has not to deliver sermons on working of other institutions but try to work on the ground to facilitate the work of other departments for smoothening the process of the delivery of services in the Srinagar city. Encroachers in the city centre and interiors of Srinagar city occupy footpaths and roads with the clout of the field staff of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) and if Mayor Matoo tends to cooperate and coordinate with the traffic police department in clearing the encroachment on roads and footpaths the traffic system can be smoothed with few days. To facilitate improvement in the traffic management system in Srinagar city the Mayor SMC has to seek the cooperation of the traffic police for removing encroachments but not to fight with it to attract more criticism from the people who see the encroachers becoming obstructionists on the roads in Srinagar city.
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