Tourists can stroll happily on Necklace road now

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JULY 26. The police are determined to do their bit to improve the city's image in the eyes of tourists by initiating effective action against those trying to cheat visitors and also by assisting tourists whenever they need help.

As a first step in this direction, a new police station called Lake police station would be opened soon covering the entire area of the Hussainsagar lake, Necklace Road, Tank Bund, Sanjeevaiah Park and Karbala Maidan. The new station would be manned by an Inspector, three Sub-Inspectors, six head constables and 10 constables. This civil police force would be assisted by 60 homeguards who have been specially trained by the Tourism Department to act as `tourism police', the Commissioner of Police, Mr. P. Ramulu, told The Hindu.

The Lake police station personnel would patrol the area which is to be delinked from the surrounding police stations of Panjagutta, Saifabad, Ramgopalpet, Begumpet, Gandhinagar and Chikkadpally. "There have been complaints of rash driving, cheating of tourists and streetwalkers soliciting customers. These problems can be checked effectively if we have a separate police team. Hence, we thought of setting up a new police station", Mr. Ramulu said.

The Commissioner pointed out that with the Government laying special emphasis on tourism, there was increased flow of tourists to the city and every tourist invariably was visiting the Necklace Road or Tank Bund. The new police station would function from the building which presently houses the Tank Bund outpost towards the Secunderabad end on the Tank Bund.

Call for road overbridges

Our Staff Reporter writes: Meanwhile, Mr. Ramulu has suggested erection of road overbridges to make road crossing easier for pedestrians. Inaugurating the free ambulance services of Yashoda Superspeciality Hospitals here on Thursday, Mr. Ramulu said 30 places were identified by the traffic police for construction of road overbridges.

The Commissioner observed that the city roads were not pedestrian-friendly. The DCP, Traffic, Mr. M.V. Dinakar Prasad, said that an analysis of the road accidents in the twin cities during last six months revealed that violation of basic principles of road usage was the main cause for the accidents.

Mr. G.S. Rao, Executive Director, Yashoda Hospitals, said six mini-ambulances and a big ambulance would be stationed at the hospital at Malakpet and Somajiguda round-the-clock. The public or the police could call up on telephone Nos. 100, 98480-14064, 3319999 and 4555555 and avail of the service. He also made it clear that victims could be taken to any hospital of their choice.

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