The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has opposed the new traffic arrangements introduced by the District Police Authority in Pathanamthitta town, terming it grossly unscientific.
The DYFI workers took out a march in the town on Saturday, protesting against the traffic arrangements introduced by Superintendent of Police (SP) R. Harishankar.
The agitated protesters removed the dividers kept by the police at the Central Junction to block direct entry of vehicles to the municipal road. The dividers removed from the road were handed over to the police.
Addressing the march, T. Zakir Hussein, former municipal chairman, alleged that the SP had introduced the new traffic regulations without respecting the interests and sentiments of the people.
Mr. Hussein alleged that the SP’s traffic regulations did not have any legal standing because the Traffic Regulatory Committee was the only authority to introduce such regulations. The SP’s act was grossly anti-democratic, he alleged.
In a statement here on Saturday, the NGO Union district secretariat demanded immediate rectification of the anomalies in traffic regulations. It alleged that the diversion of vehicular traffic to the Ring Road from the St Peter’s Junction had left the commuters who were bound for the Civil Station, General Hospital, municipality, and Mini Civil Station in the town at the receiving end.
The union called for permitting all KSRTC buses to the town through the General Hospital Road from St. Peter’s Junction.