Planning Commission to hold trafic survey in Punjab

Chandigarh, May 1 (UNI) To ascertain goods and passenger traffic flow in Punjab, the Planning Commission of India is conducting a servey in the state from tomorrow.

A total transport system study, to be conducted by RITES Ltd, Gurgaon, in two phases, would cover 12 districts in the first phase.

Disclosing this here today, an official spokesman said the first round of the survey would start tomorrow at 1400 hours and would end on May four.

The second round would be held later during this year, he said.

The first round would go on for 48 hours at a stretch and would cover twelve districts--- Amritsar, Bhatinda, Ferozpur, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mansa, Patiala, Mohali, Sangrur and Muktsar, the spokesman added.

In all 30 check posts would be set up for noting the flow of traffic on various roads.

However, in Mohali the survey would last for 168 hours on a stretch on National Highway 21, he said.

The state department of Economic and Statistical Organisation had been designated as the Nodal Office for the survey.

The Departments of Home Affairs and Justice, Excise and Taxation, Transport, PWD (B&R) will be involved to support the survey procedure in terms of infrastructure, logistic and manpower.

All the Deputy Commissioners of the districts concerned have been requested to accord their cooperation for the survey.

The public too has been requested to cooperate in the survey, he said.

UNI