RAWALPINDI: Commissioner recently imposed a ban on approval to construct educational institutions and health facilities on main roads to avoid crowd, rush and accidents.
Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah, Divisional Commissioner, Rawalpindi, and Ashfaq Ahmed, Regional Police Officer, Rawalpindi chaired a review meeting on improving the traffic system and current situation in the city.
While directing the deputy commissioners of four districts of the Rawalpindi Division, including Rawalpindi, Attock, Chakwal and Jhelum, Divisional Commissioner said that new approval should be rejected for the construction of schools, colleges and hospitals on the main road.
He also asked them to make sure that all schools and hospitals have four road-cross assistants and that the assistant commissioners of the division would also become a part of traffic awareness in their districts.
Schools located in rented buildings should change their location immediately, change orders should be issued, and the condition of an assistant on the road would also apply to hospitals, he said.
