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NEW DELHI: The government will soon roll out a Rs 200 crore scheme for monitoring traffic and incidents along the Char Dham route for quick response to people in emergency, reports Dipak Dash. The Traffic Incident Management System (TIMS) will cover approximately 835 km, which will also include Pithoragarh-Tanakpur stretch, and would be implemented in three years.
As per the plan, the four National Highway (NH) and one State Highway (SH) stretches will get around 1,400 CCTV cameras for monitoring of traffic and incidents. Around 60 speed detection devices will be installed and over 200 fixed cameras for automatic detection of accidents or any other incident on the stretch. The central hub of TIMS will have access to the central registry of vehicles. It will also have integration with the weather monitoring by Met department, earthquake and landslide monitoring by the Uttarakhand disaster management authority and flood monitoring by the Central Water Commission.
Lakhs of pilgrims use the four NHs from Rishikesh for Char Dham Yatra in clockwise direction from Yamunotri, Gangotri and Kedarnath to Badrinath. Several pilgrims take the SH from Dharasu to Rudraprayag and this stretch may also be included in the scheme.
Sources said the plan is to roll out this scheme in three phases. In the first, approximately 120 km would be covered and in Phase 2, another 280 km. The remaining 434 km would be covered in the third phase.
As per the plan, the four National Highway (NH) and one State Highway (SH) stretches will get around 1,400 CCTV cameras for monitoring of traffic and incidents. Around 60 speed detection devices will be installed and over 200 fixed cameras for automatic detection of accidents or any other incident on the stretch. The central hub of TIMS will have access to the central registry of vehicles. It will also have integration with the weather monitoring by Met department, earthquake and landslide monitoring by the Uttarakhand disaster management authority and flood monitoring by the Central Water Commission.
Lakhs of pilgrims use the four NHs from Rishikesh for Char Dham Yatra in clockwise direction from Yamunotri, Gangotri and Kedarnath to Badrinath. Several pilgrims take the SH from Dharasu to Rudraprayag and this stretch may also be included in the scheme.
Sources said the plan is to roll out this scheme in three phases. In the first, approximately 120 km would be covered and in Phase 2, another 280 km. The remaining 434 km would be covered in the third phase.
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