Commuters relieved as CM Yogi Adityanath changes plan

NOIDA/GREATER NOIDA: A change in the scheduled plan of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s visit to Greater Noida came as a relief for commuters on the Expo Mart to Gautam Budh University (GBU) route on Monday.
The CM was expected to arrive at Hindon airport and travel to GBU in a chopper. From there, he was scheduled to take the road to reach the venue of the Conference of Parties (COP14) to United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
Following this, he was scheduled to meet defence minister Rajnath Singh and hold a meeting with him about the defence expo, which is to be held in February 2020.However, the plan changed and the chief minister had to leave for Delhi for the same meeting.
Meanwhile, traffic on the Chilla-Noida stretch was diverted to facilitate VVIP movement early Monday for a few minutes.
While PM Narendra Modi travelled in a chopper, the other VVIPs who attended the session including Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Ibrahim Thiaw, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) travelled via the DND Flyway. The traffic police halted movement on the Chilla border intermittently to ensure smooth movement on the DND between 8 am and 8:30 am.
While no major diversion was done on Monday, the diversion at the Greater Noida-Delhi carriageway of the Film City flyover would remain in place till the event gets over on September 14.