Traffic was hit in the border areas of Delhi on Wednesday as police erected several layers of barricades and stopped the movement of vehicles at the Singhu and Tikri b✨orders in view of a pr🎐oposed farmers' march to the capital.
While the Singhu and Tikri borders between Delhi and Haryana have been entirely closed for traffic, vehicular movement is allowed at the𝐆 Ghazipur border in a regulated manner.
Traffic was hit in the border areas of Delhi on Wednesday as police erected several layers of barricades and stopped the movement of vehicles at the Singhu and Tikri b✨orders in view of a pr🎐oposed farmers' march to the capital.
While the Singhu and Tikri borders between Delhi and Haryan♊a have been entirely closed for traffic, v🍃ehicular movement is allowed at the Ghazipur border in a regulated manner.
A section of a road in a 🅷village near the Singhu border was dug up to prevent the farmers from reaching Delhi.
The Apsara and Ghazipur borders between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are open for traffic, but ther🔯e is heavy security de♛ployment at both places.
Ankit Singh, who was travelling from Shahdara to Noida Sect𓄧or-62, said the traffic movement was slightly affected at the Ghazipur border.
"I was planning to take an alternative route to reach office. Vehicular movement was slightly affected at the border. Heavy secu𒐪rity was deployed there," Singh said.
🐬Police said the Singhuꦉ border on National Highway-44 is inaccessible for traffic.
Inter-state buses and heavy goods vehicles for Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and other places a🐓re to take a diversion on Outer Ring Road at Majnu Ka Tilla to proceed towards Signatu♔re Bridge to Khajuri Chowk via the Loni border towards Eastern Peripheral Road, police said.
Truc🌊ks originating from the Azadpur Mandi and bound for Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar are to take a diversion from the Azadpur Mandi, take the service road towards Outer Ring Road, Haiderpur water plant and take a U-turn for Rohini Jail Road Sector-18 to Badli metro station to Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar, they adde𝓡d.
Only Delhi Transport Corporatio🎃n (DTC) buses and four-wheelers are allowed from Mukarba Chowk towards N💫H-44 to take exit number-2 on NH-44 at the DSIIDC cut to go towards Narela and the Safiabad border.
Commuters are advised to follow the above routes t🍌o avoid inconvenience, police said.
Po♔lice have put up barricades and placed concrete slabs on various roads to prevent the protesting farmers from entering Delhi.
People had to🐓 cross the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana on foot on Tuesday as police blocked the movement of vehicles in view of the farmers' march.
Hem Singh, who lives in🐷 Haryanaꦬ's Karnal, said he was going to northeast Delhi to attend a wedding but his bus had to halt nearly a kilometre from the border.
"My nephew is getting married in northeast Delhi's Gokulpuri and we are stuck here due to🤡 traffic. The bus driver stopped the vehicle a kilometre before the border. We are walking towards Delhi and are not sure whether we will get any vehicl🔥e.
"We were aware of the farmers' march, but had no idea that we would get stuc♌k here. I asked my wife and daughter to go back to Panipat, but my daughter is very excited to at🌸tend her cousin's wedding," he said.
Farmers demanding a law on a minimum support price for crops are marching towards Delhi after a meeting between them and a tea✨m of Uniౠon ministers over their demands remained inconclusive.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha have said the farmers will head to Delhi to press the BJP-led Centre to accꦛept their demands.