<p>With its traffic signals serviced and enough personnel on the roads to ensure smooth traffic flow, the Delhi Traffic Police claims it is geared up to face the monsoon challenge.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Delhi Joint Commissioner of Police (traffic) Satyendra Garg said they had serviced all the traffic signals in the capital to ensure the lights do not black out with the rains.<br /><br />“We have already serviced all the traffic signals. We are also closely liaising with the Delhi civic authorities to ensure that issues like water-logging due to rains are resolved at the earliest,” Garg said in an event.<br /><br />Asked about traffic snarls that inevitably occurred during rains, Garg said: “Even in case there is a traffic snarl due to rains, we will ensure that there are adequate traffic policemen to man the situation and ensure smooth traffic movement in the rain-hit areas.”<br /><br />Garg claimed that the traffic police is often the fastest to respond to rain-related incidents such as fallen trees, and has disaster management vehicles on the ready to address such issues.<br /><br />Waterlogging woes: HC seeks report on desilting<br /><br />The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked civic agencies, the trifurcated MCD and the NDMC to file a report giving details about steps taken to desilt drains to avoid waterlogging during monsoon in the Capital, reports PTI.<br /><br />“The New Delhi Municipal Council and other civic agencies are directed to file a status report within 15 days after taking steps to desilt drains so that waterlogging does not happen,” said a bench of justices S K Kaul and Vipin Sanghi.<br /><br />The court asked the civic agencies to ensure that “desilted material are removed from the sites.” It fixed the hearing on the matter to September 5.<br /><br />The court’s directions came during the hearing of a public interest litigation filed by NGO Nyaya Bhoomi, seeking steps to end the problem of waterlogging in the Capital. <br /><br />The bench also allowed Gaurav Bansal, an advocate, to get himself impleaded as a co-petitioner to the PIL filed by the NGO. In his petition, Bansal accused the civic agencies of doing “little” to prevent the recurrent malady before monsoon.<br /><br />The MCD and PWD have done nothing significant after 1998 to desilt drains properly. This has been causing waterlogging on major roads even after slight rain, the petition claimed.<br /><br />The PIL mentioned a list of 41 waterlogging-prone areas in Delhi. Referring to a response received under the Right to Information Act, the petition said affected areas included Ashram Chowk and South Extension Part-1.</p>
<p>With its traffic signals serviced and enough personnel on the roads to ensure smooth traffic flow, the Delhi Traffic Police claims it is geared up to face the monsoon challenge.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Delhi Joint Commissioner of Police (traffic) Satyendra Garg said they had serviced all the traffic signals in the capital to ensure the lights do not black out with the rains.<br /><br />“We have already serviced all the traffic signals. We are also closely liaising with the Delhi civic authorities to ensure that issues like water-logging due to rains are resolved at the earliest,” Garg said in an event.<br /><br />Asked about traffic snarls that inevitably occurred during rains, Garg said: “Even in case there is a traffic snarl due to rains, we will ensure that there are adequate traffic policemen to man the situation and ensure smooth traffic movement in the rain-hit areas.”<br /><br />Garg claimed that the traffic police is often the fastest to respond to rain-related incidents such as fallen trees, and has disaster management vehicles on the ready to address such issues.<br /><br />Waterlogging woes: HC seeks report on desilting<br /><br />The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked civic agencies, the trifurcated MCD and the NDMC to file a report giving details about steps taken to desilt drains to avoid waterlogging during monsoon in the Capital, reports PTI.<br /><br />“The New Delhi Municipal Council and other civic agencies are directed to file a status report within 15 days after taking steps to desilt drains so that waterlogging does not happen,” said a bench of justices S K Kaul and Vipin Sanghi.<br /><br />The court asked the civic agencies to ensure that “desilted material are removed from the sites.” It fixed the hearing on the matter to September 5.<br /><br />The court’s directions came during the hearing of a public interest litigation filed by NGO Nyaya Bhoomi, seeking steps to end the problem of waterlogging in the Capital. <br /><br />The bench also allowed Gaurav Bansal, an advocate, to get himself impleaded as a co-petitioner to the PIL filed by the NGO. In his petition, Bansal accused the civic agencies of doing “little” to prevent the recurrent malady before monsoon.<br /><br />The MCD and PWD have done nothing significant after 1998 to desilt drains properly. This has been causing waterlogging on major roads even after slight rain, the petition claimed.<br /><br />The PIL mentioned a list of 41 waterlogging-prone areas in Delhi. Referring to a response received under the Right to Information Act, the petition said affected areas included Ashram Chowk and South Extension Part-1.</p>