Delhi Traffic Police issues detailed advisory ahead of kanwar yatra

According to an advisory issued on Sunday, kanwars will enter Delhi from multiple Delhi-Uttar Pradesh borders and pass through key routes such as the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, Mathura Road, Aurobindo Marg, Mehrauli-Gurgaon (MG) Road, and Outer Ring Road, leading to traffic diversions and restrictions.

Nearly 1,500 traffic personnel, including traffic inspectors (T-I) and zonal officers (ZOs), will remain deployed on the routes and all the border points such as Apsara, Loni, and Bhopura (northeast), Maharajpur and Ghazipur (east), Kalindi Kunj, Badarpur and Rajokri (south), and Tikri, Jharoda, and Singhu (outer Delhi) as devotees carrying holy water from the Ganga in Uttarakhand travel on foot, traffic police officers said.

They said elaborate traffic arrangements will be in place on the designated borders and routes to minimise inconvenience to commuters. A senior officer aware of the preparations, requesting anonymity, said that nearly 200 kanwariya camps have been set up on roadsides for the next 12 days.