TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: The Panjim traffic cell will begin a fresh drive to eliminate junk vehicles from Panjim’s parking lots in view of the excruciating parking problems faced by the capital.
The traffic cell will shortly release a fresh list of vehicles abandoned at various public spaces across the city and send notices to the owners for removing the vehicles.
The Traffic Cell has been towing the junk vehicles to its Bainguinim yard. “This is an ongoing drive. It won’t stop. The third list will be made public soon after the Road Safety Week concludes,” PI Dharmesh Angle told Herald.
The sleuths, during its survey last year found 87 government-owned and private vehicles parked at various parking lots and other public places for months with no one to claim them. Some vehicles were lying abandoned for more than a year.
Angle said after the notices were issued to owners of all the identified vehicles, more than 50 percent of these were claimed, while some were picked following media reports. The vehicles were released after the owners paid penalty with a pre-condition that vehicles will not be left unattended for a long period. The officer explained that first step is to issue summons to the respective vehicle owners, affirming that such campaigns will continue regularly in order to completely curb such violations of the related regulations.
“As of now, we have towed away around 30 vehicles and parked them in the yard. Only four government registered vehicles are left to be lifted from the second list, which will be done in the next three-to-four days. We had granted them time to locate a store yard…” he added. These vehicles will be shifted near Old IPHB premises at Altinho.
The Cell has collected Rs 12-13,000 from the total fines collected till date. All this have been possible with just one crane at its disposal.
Under Section 127 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 any motor vehicle which has been abandoned or left unattended at public place for more than 10 hours, has to be removed.
