Hyderabad, September 21: City police have imposed restrictions on movement of vehicular traffic on the centralised Ganesh idol procession route from Keshavagiri to Tank bund on September 22.
Traffic will be diverted on the procession route which starts from Balapur in the Cyberabad police limits and enters the city limits at Keshavagiri. The procession would pass through the Kandikul Gate, Chatrinaka, Shalibanda, Charminar, Gulzar Houz, Afzalgunj, Moazamjahi Market, Abids and finally the Tank bund. The idols would be immersed from the NTR Marg and Tank bund.
Vehicular traffic would not be allowed to ply on this route and have to take alternate routes, city police commissioner AK Khan said. The restrictions would be in force in Secunderabad area also and are likely to continue till the entire immersion process is completed.
Police said state and inter-district lorries reaching Hyderabad and Secunderabad through the national and state highways on the nights of September 22 and 23 will be terminated on the city outskirts. They will not be allowed to enter the twincities till 12 noon on the next day.
Similarly, RTC buses entering the city would be diverted through alternate routes. Plying of buses between Imlibun bus station and Jubilee bus station would not be allowed from 12 noon to 10 p.m. Vehicles coming from Vijayawada would be terminated at Dilsukhnagar bus depot after 12 noon.
Police said no vehicle, except those carrying idols, would be allowed towards NTR Marg, Upper Tank bund, Minister’s road and Necklace Road. Meanwhile, police have identified some parking lots for the general public who come to watch the immersion.
The parking places are the NTR Stadium, Nizam’s College, Public Gardens, Institute of Engineers, Khairatabad MMTS railway station, Anand Nagar to Ranga Reddy zilla parishad, Lower Tank bund, Goseva Sadan, Katta Maisamma temple and behind Buddha Bhavan.
–Agencies