Cyberabad police, IT industry leaders join hands to explore solutions for traffic congestion

The Cyberabad police, in a meeting with the representatives of the IT companies explored several actionable strategies that can be implemented for ease traffic situation in Hi-tec City area

Hyderabad: In a move to address the growing traffic concerns in the Cyberabad region, the Cyberabad police in collaboration with IT sector leaders and associations including Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association (HYSEA) are exploring short-term and medium-term solutions to ease traffic congestion in the IT hubs of Hi-tec City and the Financial District.

As a part of these efforts, on Monday, the Cyberabad Commissioner of Police, Avinash Mohanty along with Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic Cyberabad, D. Joel Davis in a meeting with the representatives of the IT companies explored several actionable strategies that can be implemented for ease traffic situation in Hi-tec City area.

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Some of the strategies discussed involved staggered shifts to ease traffic, information sharing on arrival patterns of employees, installation of cameras for live monitoring of traffic flow, support with traffic marshals to enable better traffic management, improvement of roads and creating alternative routes.

Improvement of public transport infrastructure, foot-over bridges, encouraging employee carpooling, and centralized transportation system were also discussed.

Officials noticed that some of the initiatives required coordination with other departments and it was agreed to do a follow-up meeting in the next couple of weeks with stakeholders from TGIIC, TSRTC, GHMC and other relevant Govt departments.

Ramesh Kaza, Secretary, Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), suggested forming small cluster groups to oversee the execution of each action item.

Prashanth Nandella, president, HYSEA said that SCSC and HYSEA will collaborate to create a task force and hold periodic meetings to review progress and ensure impactful results.

Prominent industry leaders, including Bharani Aroll, pas president, HYSEA and Amarnath Atmakuri, CRO, ITE and C Department, leading companies including Infosys, Microsoft, Micron, WIPRO, TCS, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, Deloitte, DBS Tech, Realpage, LTIMindtree, Broadridge, ServiceNow, ZF, CtrlS, State Street, HSBC, Amazon and others were present.