gurgaon police are planning to tie up with telecom operators to send live updates to residents and commuters during traffic jams this monsoon talks are in progress with airtel vodafone and reliance to work out a mechanism for updating peopleaccording to commissioner sandeep khirwar these messages will be sent to people within a certain radius of the national highway updating them about the traffic situation on arterial roads within the city on busy days though the project can be executed like any other public awareness message telecom companies will have to devise a mechanism for itwe are at an advanced stage of talks with the operators how to devise a mechanism and work out the technicalities of the process depends on them they might assign some towers to send out the messages said khirwarhe added the messages will be drafted on the basis of inputs given by traffic policenone of the telecom companies could be reached for comment police is also planning to use social media channels including facebook and twitter to ensure constant communication with citizens during traffic jams or in a flood like situationwe are also speaking to radio channels for broadcasting live traffic updates from gurgaon said the commissioneradditionally the police have identified 23 points within the city including shankar chowk iffco chowk signature towers sector 31 traffic signal jharsa chowk rajiv chowk hero honda chowk subhash chowk vatika chowk maharana pratap chowk atul kataria chowk hanuman temple in dundahera huda city centre ghata more ambedkar chowk in sohna kherki daula toll plaza rampura chowk imt chowk in manesar panchgaon chowk bilaspur chowk kapriwas himgiri sector 10 and jamalpur pataudi where additional force will be deployed to mitigate snarls during the rainy season according to an official release by the district administration on monday 200 home guards and 50 corporation officials will assist the cops in manning these pointsaccording to toll figures around 80000 vehicles cross kherki daula toll plaza every day so when a jam occurs between the toll plaza and the city its aftereffects are felt across the citywe will have teams manning these points 24x7 currently we are running drills to prepare our teams for any extreme situation said khirwarone such drill was conducted by the commissioner on monday at signature towers where cops were briefed on how to make arrangements for drinking water and charging points in case of a floodlike situation they were also advised to be adept with the routes in their territoriesa high level meeting on friday also discussed the methods to gear up for the traffic situation during monsoon the meeting was chaired by additional chief secretary finance keshni anand arora along with other senior officials including mcg commissioner v umashankar his deputy hardeep singh urban local bodies department acs anand mohan sharan and divisional commissioner d sureshtalking about the measures to avoid another gurujam arora said we are taking all necessary precautions but given the undergoing nhai projects in the city extra precaution is required she added that