"During the summit, we had increased our strength at all 40 roundabouts and squares across the city. Mohanty and Justice Ananda Sen has directed advocate-general Vinod Kumar Poddar to ensure that the traffic management standards, set during the two-day summit, were maintained. Traffic personnel feel that the court's directive was a tall ask given the shortage of manpower and the volume of traffic on regular days. "As many as 1,200 policemen were deployed across the city to ensure proper traffic management during the summit, while the regular strength is 300. "As the regular deployment of such a huge number of constables is not possible, we do not think it will be possible to keep the high court happy," he added.

Source: The Telegraph February 18, 2017 21:23 UTC