Dimapur, May 2 (EMN): The Kohima administration has decided to remove urban debris and hindrances in the way of smooth traffic movement in the capital town.
A similar move associated with clearing hindrances in urban and public areas will include disallowing “road side vendors” from using pedestrian areas.
The government’s publicity agency, the department of Information and Public Relations (IPR) gave updates on Thursday about a meeting the transport authorities conducted. The date of the meeting was not mentioned.
The deputy commissioner of Kohima, Anoop Khinchi, convened a meeting of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) in his office chamber, the updates stated.
In the meeting, the officers are stated to have discussed various issues concerning issues of traffic congestion and ‘commercial transport systems’ etc.
The administration has decided to take a number of steps to address traffic problems in Kohima, the IPR stated. The authorities have decided to remove ‘building and other materials’ dumped along roadsides. The administration is also to direct “road side vendors” to follow instructions given by the Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) not to use the stand areas, which have been made for the pedestrian. On issues related to traffic congestion, the officers discussed the feasibility of using the north side areas of the local ground for public vehicles to park and to earmark parking areas for shop owners’ vehicles.
For city buses, the administration discussed designating pick-up and dropping points instead of stations and also to ply only on designated routes in accordance with the given permits.
Another matter that the RTA discussed was to come up with uniforms for taxi drivers, with name tags. The officers at the meeting decided to take up the issues for further discussion with those in concern, the IPR informed.
In regard to taxi permits, the transport authority deliberated on issues concerning local/regional taxi permit holders. The administration has decided that the permit holders shall drive own taxi and reminded that taxi permits are not transferable.
Further, issuing ‘open advertisements’ for sale of local/regional permits in the newspapers is illegal, the IPR informed.
The officials also decided that enforcement teams would be checking frequently to ensure that only the authorized persons are driving the taxis. Local taxis will require special permits to ply their trade out of the municipal limits, the IPR added.
