TRAFFIC JUMP - a new problem for Silchar

                   Silchar is a city strategically located at the centre of five states and two international boundaries. It is the source of communication and a commercial hub. Rightly it is said that it is the second highway of the North-east after Guwahati and is connecting the region with the main land. It is thickly populated town with approx 10 lakh population. Over the past few years, the city is constantly witnessing a huge influx of people from nearby smaller places due to city's increasing future prospects and other developments in the field of education, medical facilities, and the more recently booming real estate market and other commercial businesses, making the city quite an overcrowded one. It has now the second highest population in the state, although the difference with the highest populated city i.e., Guwahati, the capital of Assam, is quite huge. And with this increased number of population Silchar is under the pressure of overcrowded traffic. Whereas Silchar is gifted with narrow broken roads with stagnant water by the Silchar Municipality.

 Today the no. of vehicles plying in the roads of Silchar has manifold. But the condition of the roads is detorating day by day which finally results heavy jump in the roads. Especially the roads are not geared up to take the load of such increased traffics. Just count the no. of vehicles ply in the way of Rangirkhari during peak hours of a day, it is approx 75wheelers, 200 two wheelers, 100 three-wheelers per mintute.For poorly maintained narrow roads of Silchar such massive traffic is beyond the control of small detachment of traffic police deployed for the purpose.Richshaw and thela puller being slow moving are the major cause of jamming the roads. It is soon needed to be replaced by town buses which will control the increasing no. of autorichshaws and rickshaws. In Silchar town there is no severe traffic rules. Motorcyclist drives without helmets and overtakes from wrong sides. On average, every third day there is a fatal motor cycle accident. Auto drivers take pride to overtake from wrong sides. Footpath is laddered with petty shops. Silchar court is over burdened with motor vehicles accident cases, which is much higher than any other town of Assam. Unless an early and drastic step is taken by the Govt, Silchar will be a difficult place for us to live in.