Authors: Amit Vashisth
Abstract: Samalkha town of Panipat district of Haryana state in India is an administrative center for 74 villages which consists of a population of almost 300 thousand including Samalkha town. The larger part of this population from most of the villages flooded to Samalkha town on a daily basis for shopping and other administrative works. No traffic signals, inadequate space for market, low road spaces and overtaking tendency by road users are responsible for creating long-term traffic congestion on railway road. Due to this substantial portion of working hours got wasted on the streets which indirectly affect the overall economy and causing serious air pollution and noise pollution which affects the environment. The Government needs to construct wider roads, shifting of vegetable vendors from roads to specified vegetable marketplace, curb to heavily loaded trucks. Samalkha being located on NH1, one of the busiest national highways in the country possessing industrial and trade importance, automobile exhaust contribute considerably to pollution. Inadequate native transport means that, the absence of bye-pass roads, encroachment of roads and lanes, inadequate traffic management, etc exaggerate the contribution level of automobile exhaust to pollution. The fuel employed in most of the vehicles is either diesel or fuel. By reducing holdup, this town can play a very important role in the economy of Haryana state by ensuring clean and healthy environment which is noise free and pollution free.
Keywords: Samalkha, Traffic-jam, Economy, Environment, Panipat district.
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