Sukhbir launches highway patrol fleet

Chandigarh: A new highway patrol fleet
comprising 50 motorcycles equipped with GPS, wireless system
and mobile phones to regulate the flow of traffic was today
launched by Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Badal said these motorcycles would patrol 534 km of
national highways in the state from Shambhu to Jalandhar,
Jalandhar to Amritsar and Jalandhar to Pathankot, besides
roads connecting these highways to airports at Amritsar and
SAS Nagar.

On the occasion, Punjab DGP P S Gill gave a brief
account of initiatives undertaken to ensure road security
during the last three years, including constitution of road
safety council headed by the Chief Minister.

-PTI