Operation Rope: Hyderabad Traffic Police On Duty

Hyderabad Traffic Police has intensified the operation ROPE, about 25 traffic units of Hyderabad traffic Police have conducted the drive across the city and they collected about Rs. 3,65,000 fine amount from 472 motorists as well as 18 establishment owners for violations of traffic as part of the ROPE Operation. CV Anand, Hyderabad Commissioner, has made a surprise inspection at Road No-45 Junction in Jubilee Hills. During the visit, he also made sure as the whether the field staff are ready and discussed the engineering changes needed.

The traffic officials have also briefed the Police Commissioner about the inflow, volumes, and load on the local roads. While having interactions with the media, CV Anand has stated that there has been a rise in the population and also an increase when it comes to personal vehicles during the Covid Pandemic. The above reasons have led to the serious situation of traffic jams at varied junctions. He asked the citizen to understand how serious the situation was and Hyderabad residents must voluntarily co-operate the seriousness of the situation and voluntarily co-operate with the police in order to ensure there exists a free flow of traffic.

In order to reduce congestion on roads, we have begun this special drive to clear the encroachments and obstructive parking. CV Anand also added that more special drives would be initiated in the coming days in order to check on traffic violations including triple riding, cell phone riding, wrong-side driving, etc, which would help in a long way to bringing order to the city roads.

He also urged the public representatives to cooperate with the traffic police during enforcement and VIP moments. The general public was advised to commute the public transport systems in lieu of personal vehicles, he felt. Recently Hyderabad Traffic Police has reminded all motorists in the city, that they might require to shell out fines, which range from Rs.100 to Rs. 1000, which depends on the rule they break, when “Operation ROPE (Removal of Obstructing Parking and Encroachments), would be implemented from 3rd October 2022.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) AV Ranganath stated, “As per section 39(b) of City Police Act 1348F. fines ranging from Rs. 100 to Rs. 1000 would be based on the obstruction created, and would be imposed. In addition, we would collect the towing charges. For two-wheelers, the towing charge is Rs. 200 along with a fine of Rs. 100 while it is Rs.600 along with a fine of Rs. 100 for a 4-wheeler. -For Violations such as crossing the stop line, the fine amount is Rs. 100 -Rs. 1000 would be the fine for obstruction of free left The traffic police have been requesting the business establishments to ensure that there would be both free as well as easy movement for commuters by voluntarily removing any encroachment ahead of implementing Operation ROPE across the city roads. We are very confident, that the above operation ROPE would bring in a marked change in the city traffic flow. Police Commissioner CV Anand unveiled the operation ROPE on Thursday.

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