Coronavirus outbreak: Odd-even rule for essential services vehicles in Guwahati

GUWAHATI: Guwahati police implemented an odd-even rule for all vehicles engaged in essential services for three days from Friday to regulate traffic movement on the city roads during the

lockdown

.


“Even if the vehicles have permissions to ply for carrying out essential duties, only those with registration number ending with an even number will be allowed to ply on roads today, odd number ending tomorrow and again even number ending on Sunday,” Guwahati Police Commissioner

Munna Prasad Gupta

said.

He added, “Ambulances, doctors, health workers, media, police, on-duty government servants, water vehicles, trucks carrying essential items, vehicles carrying LPG cylinders, refinery workers, electricity department and phone services are exempted from this odd-even rule.”

The police commissioner further said that all vegetable and milk vans irrespective of their number plates are allowed to enter the city before 9 am. “These restrictions will be in place till Sunday. The main reason is we want to save the people from coronavirus outbreak,” he said.

The regulatory orders came after huge traffic was witnessed at

Ganeshguri

locality of the city on Thursday with most of the vehicles carrying stickers of “essential services”.

Gupta informed that the city police have seized 2,977 vehicles in Guwahati and imposed fines of Rs 11,91,500 since the beginning of the lockdown.

“We have also registered more than 1,200 non-FIR cases against the violators. Besides, we have registered some cases under IPC and arrested 90 people for violation of the lockdown,” he added.