Uttarakhand minister wants Dehradun-Haridwar highway shut for her cycle rally to spread Modi’s message
Saturday, September 9, 2017 IST
A minister within the Uttarakhand government plans to force one among the foremost vital highways within the region to finish off for many hours this month once she's going to lead a cycle rally from Dehradun to Haridwar, fifty five kilometres away.
Rekha Arya, the Uttarakhand minister of state (MoS) for ladies authorisation and kid development, has begun trailing for the ‘marathon’ task, that is being unionised on Citizenship Day to lift awareness on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign.
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“Dehradun-Haridwar main road is that the highway connecting Garhwal and Kumaon, and there area unit industrial units on it. it'll be quite tough to hold out traffic diversion because the route receives terribly significant traffic load on a daily basis,” a police official aforesaid, want to not be named.
But Arya is unfazed. “When the police will hump for the annual Kanwar Mela, why not for this rally? they'll have hump (traffic diversion)…they simply need to scale back their work,” Arya told HT, adding that the rally participants can “follow traffic rules”. She aforesaid the rally might have around five hundred participants.
Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat can flag off the rally from Dehradun whereas Union minister for ladies authorisation and kid development Maneka Gandhi can flag its end at Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar.
Dehradun superintendent of police (traffic) Dhirendra Gunjyal, aforesaid the police can “make arrangements for the rally per directions received from the upper authorities”.
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