Rawalpindi - In order to ensure security to the faithful, the City Traffic Police issued traffic plan for Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH) to be celebrated on Dec 1 (Friday).
Under the plan, parking vehicles or handcarts on the route of the Milad processions have been strictly banned while traffic wardens would be deployed on the city’s roads.
City Traffic Officer Rawalpindi Yousaf Ali Shahid said that there would be nearly seventeen diversion points in the city to ensure the traffic flow.
No tractor trolley, truck or other public service vehicles would be allowed to reach near Milad processions, he said.
The CTO urged the citizens to use alternative routes including Airport Road, Rialto Chowk, Tippu Road, Rawal Road and Murree Road ahead of Chandi Chowk to reach Islamabad.
Ambulances, fire brigade and other emergency service vehicles would be checked properly.
Police personnel and traffic wardens would be deployed to control traffic in the city.
Emergency squads have also been appointed to maintain the flow of traffic in the city, he added.
The official said that special arrangements had also been made for Murree, Kotli Sattian and other tehsils of the district where traffic wardens would regulate the traffic.
The CTO directed the officials to ensure parking at a distance from the routes of the procession.
The CTO also asked the wardens to remove all kind of encroachments from the routes of processions besides keeping a vigil on suspected persons and things. Strict disciplinary action would be taken against the delinquent officials, the CTO warned.
The CTO said that main procession routes, including College Chowk, Fowara Chowk, Raja Bazaar and others would be barricaded and no vehicular traffic would be allowed to go ahead of these locations. All the traffic would be diverted on other routes, he added.
The CTO said that special arrangements for the traffic would also be made for the outskirts of the city and Rawalpindi Cantonment areas.