Special pickets will be installed in coordination with area police to check stunt mobike riders, overspeeding apart from reckless, zig-zag and dangerous driving.
In order to ensure incident-free New Year celebrations, Delhi Traffic Police will deploy 70 teams to check drunken driving while no vehicular traffic will be allowed in inner, middle or outer circle of Connaught Place after 7 PM on December 31, 2013.
"Traffic police will deploy 70 teams to check drunken driving. Drunken drivers will be fined Rs 2,000 apart from suspension of their driving licences. The defaulters may also get a jail term," Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Anil Shukla said today.
Special pickets will be installed in coordination with area police to check stunt mobike riders, overspeeding apart from reckless, zig-zag and dangerous driving, he said.
Limited parking place will be available near Connaught Place on first-come-first-served basis. Motorists are advised to use alternative routes available for North, South, East and West directions, police said.
According to a traffic advisory, PCR vehicles would also be deployed in Mehrauli, Saket, Vasant Vihar, South Extension, Rajouri Garden, Pitampura, Laxmi Nagar and Mayur Vihar areas from December 31 evening.
Some other areas of Delhi, which are considered party hot spots and which will be under special police arrangement are Saket, M-Block Market of Greater Kailash, Chirag Delhi, New Friends Colony, Defence Colony, South Extension, Mehrauli, Aya Nagar Border, Khanpur, Nehru Place near Eros Hotel, near Govindpuri Metro Station, Vasant Vihar, Vasant Kunj, Kapashera, Dwarka, Rajouri Garden, Netaji Subhash Place, Rohini, Pitampura, Ashok Vihar, G.T. Karnal Road, Karkardooma, Laxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar and Mayur Vihar-II.
"No private and public transport vehicles shall be allowed to proceed towards Connaught Place, Mandi House, Bengali Market, Ranjit Singh flyover, Minto Road, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg crossing, Chelmsford Road near New Delhi Railway Station, R.K. Ashram Marg, Chitragupta Marg, Gole Market, Patel Chowk, K.G. Marg, Ferozshah Road crossing and Jai Singh Road-Bangla Sahib Lane from 7 p.m. onwards," the advisory said.
According to the police, at least 24,564 drivers have been prosecuted this year for drunken driving till December 15 while 3,397 of these were jailed. Driving licences of 631 motorists have been suspended.