Average speed of vehicles in Hyd. is 25 kmph, say police
The Hindu
The spin-off is fuel saving, engine efficiency, says City Police Commissioner
The average speed of vehicles on city roads has gone up by three kilometres per hour in the last two years.
According to Hyderabad Commissioner of Police Anjani Kumar, the average journey speed on the city roads had gone up to 25 kilometres per hour (kmph). The average vehicle speed in 2019 was 22 kmph and 19 kmph in 2016.
Comparing this with other metro cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, the officer said, Hyderabad emerged as the number one city where vehicle traffic speed per hour is constantly increasing year after year. This gives certain benefits like savings in fuel, engine efficiency, less fatigue and dropping pollution.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists