As NH-9 blockade continues, traffic police announce diversion, ask commuters to avoid highway

Ghaziabad: In the wake of blockade of one side of the National Highway-9 on Thursday, the Ghaziabad traffic police have advised commuters to avoid the highway and also come up with diversions.

Several groups of farmers protesting at the UP Gate on Thursday morning blocked the Ghaziabad-Delhi carriageway of the highway and it is likely to continue further, police officials said.

In its advisory, the traffic police have stated that vehicles coming from Chijrasi, Vijay Nagar, Khoda, among others, will be diverted to routes in Noida while commuters from Indirapuram, Vaishali and Vasundhara, etc, should take the Kaushambi-Anand Vihar border to reach Delhi.