Panaji: The Goa government has deployed two platoons of the state police’s India Reserve Battalion to decongest a section of the national highway connecting the North and South districts of the state, a senior official said on Friday. Heavy traffic jams have been witnessed for the past few days at Agassaim village on the national highway near Zuari bridge, about 15 kilometres from here, the official said. The issue had drawn protests from political parties as well as people who had missed their flights as the highway is the sole access road for people of North Goa to the international airport. “Two platoons of IRB have been deployed. Police have issued detailed instructions to field formations for continuous monitoring of traffic situation,” a senior Chief Minister’s Office official told PTI today. He claimed that since the deployment of the two IRB platoons at the site, traffic had been moving smoothly on the highway. The official said that, as instructed by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar who is currently in the United States for a medical check-up, senior state officials had visited the site of the traffic bottleneck. (PTI)
