Hyderabad: The convergence meeting headed by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation chief D.S. Lokesh Kumar was organised at the police commissionerate here on Saturday. Police officials who participated in the meeting asked the corporation to provide street lighting particularly near educational institutions, coaching centres and work places in order to prevent chain snatching and road accidents.
The police also asked the Hyderabad Metro Rail authorities to shift bus shelters which are near the junctions as they were causing traffic jams and to display signboards on speed limits.
The police urged the authorities to close the gaps at central medians and provide grills in order to prevent pedestrians from crossing the road randomly, thereby endangering themselves and motorists. Pedestrians must be encouraged to use foot over bridges at HMRL stations by displaying signboards, the police said.
At 52 the identified black spots where repeated accidents occur, it has been decided to make a joint inspection to re-engineer the roads.
Regarding beggars in the city, especially at traffic junctions which was hindering free flow traffic and causing accidents, Serilingampally zonal commissioner, Hari Chandana said they were being shifted to night shelters with the help of police but the problem still continues.
The police agreed to hand over the vacant place of the old police station at YMCA for taking up beautification work.
On the revised project report prepared on the 11-km stretch from Mehdipatnam to Gachi-bowli, the HMWS&SB informed that all the leakage points would be rectified.
