Pappu Mallick
GANGTOK, MAY 2: The Press Club of Sikkim in collaboration with the
Office of the Superintendent of Police( East) today organized an open
forum debate called "Khulla Manch" at M.G Marg. The program is one of
the activities of Sikkim traffic police to observe 23rd National Road Safety
Week. It was participated by various localities to pose the questions concerning their problems related to the traffic in the city. The panel
consisted of the state authorities like, K.N Topgey (Mayor, Sikkim Municipal
Corporation), Shakti Singh (Deputy Mayor), P.K Basnet (Senior
R.T.O),Mandeep Singh (Senior S.P), Sonam Bhutia (D.S.P Traffic), Ongmu Bhutia
(S.D.P.O) and Snadhya Prasad (Councellor) who answered the queries
pertaining to the traffic related issues. There were many questions asked
to which some solution were provided on spot and some have been promised to be
solved.
Some of the main issues
discussed were the increasing number of the vehicles in the city and
less space to park them, the fake West Bengal licenses used by the drivers,
parking of VIP and Official vehicles in front of tourism department which
hinders the flow of traffic, unstable hike in the taxi fare at peak hours and
others.
The Mayor also informed of establishing ropeways from Gangtok to places like Ranipool and Sichey with a minimum fare between 10 to 15 rupees to reduce the number of people travelling by cars. Some of the authorities also stated that there is difference between the day and night taxi fares in the cities of other countries but not India, not knowing that Mumbai follows this tariff rule after midnight.
The Mayor also informed of establishing ropeways from Gangtok to places like Ranipool and Sichey with a minimum fare between 10 to 15 rupees to reduce the number of people travelling by cars. Some of the authorities also stated that there is difference between the day and night taxi fares in the cities of other countries but not India, not knowing that Mumbai follows this tariff rule after midnight.
