For Delhi Police, removing barriers from the Singhu border is a difficult undertaking

Thousands of commuters have experienced relief after 66 days as the Delhi Police have started to breach the concrete barricades at the Singhu border in response to a writ case filed by three residents of Panipat. However, breaking down the combined concrete-iron barricades has become an enormous undertaking for the police force. According to sources, it would take more than three or four days to prepare the roadway for efficient traffic movement.

To clear the flyover’s lanes, the Delhi Police have put large machinery and cranes to use.

On February 13, the Delhi Police installed extensive barricading on the flyover and on the service lanes to prevent the farmers’ access, drawing on their lessons from the 2020 farmers’ protest on the Singhu border.

On the border, the Delhi Police had erected built-up concrete-iron mixed barriers and layered barricades made of iron and cement with barbed wire. On the Shambhu border, the farmers have been halted; nevertheless, for the last 66 days, the Singhu border has been closed.

The Delhi Police had opened the service lanes for vehicle traffic on February 29 in response to requests from the community, business owners, and industrialists; nevertheless, the main flyover remained blocked.

The machinery has been forced into action on the border to dismantle these barriers after the three individuals filed a case in the Delhi High Court and after the frequent meetings between the Delhi Police and other government officials and businessmen.

However, getting rid of them has grown to be an extremely difficult undertaking for the Delhi Police and the government. Additionally, the Delhi Police sent out people to clear the roadways by using gas cutters to cut iron rods.

The head of the Kundli Industrialist Association (KIA), Subhash Gupta, said that because the Delhi Police had constructed the barriers using reinforced cement concrete (RCC), it was now very difficult for them to remove the concrete off the roadway.

According to Gupta, it would take three or four days to remove the concrete since these roadblocks are too powerful. He said that only the administration’s and the people’s combined efforts had made this possible. “We had petitioned online and received over 1,200 signatures. We also had many meetings with the police and administrations in Sonepat and Delhi. Three Panipat residents filed a writ suit to open the Singhu border, according to Gupta.