John Wilbert & Rabindranath Biswas
Port Blair, Dec 14: Pedestrians, commuters, and the City Traffic Police are dealing with adversities with an enormous variety of deserted autos cluttering completely different nooks, crannies, and roads of the Port Blair City.
According to the Traffic Branch, the deserted autos impede site visitors stream and create safety points on public roads, whereas the residents of Port Blair are of the view that it’s important to take robust and well timed motion via the particular drives in de-cluttering town roads.
Some areas dotted with deserted automobiles embody Delanipur to Light House, Hindi Sahitiya Kala Parishad to Pioneer Chicken Center, Junglighat Main Road space and suburbs of town, in line with Traffic Branch.
Though the Police have earlier made a number of bulletins exhorting individuals to take away deserted autos from roads and footpaths, the violators are hardly discovered to be exhibiting any honour to the announcement of the Police on this respect, they usually proceed to defy the extant rule and desert their autos on the place meant for the general public. The Traffic Police even eliminated many deserted autos from these areas.
Vehicles parked at a spot for a number of days and whose homeowners can’t be traced are categorized as deserted. The MV Act states that these autos could be towed away. The Act additional states that if an deserted, wrecked, burnt or partially dismantled automobile is making a site visitors hazard, its instant elimination from public place by a towing service could also be authorised by a Police Officer having jurisdiction.
The present state of affairs is like garaging of the roads and these autos should be towed away and heavy penalties should be recovered from the violators as they’re obstructing free stream of site visitors inflicting inconvenience to the residents, the civic of town mentioned.
The deserted autos have change into a menace, as they’re left on the street aspect, they create site visitors congestion, occupy useful parking areas in crowded residential areas in an unauthorized method and pose risk of different hazards, one other Police Official mentioned.
Meanwhile, the Traffic Police have urged the general public to return ahead and tender cooperation to the Police in any such case if they arrive throughout thereby contacting close by Police Station or passing the knowledge to the Traffic Police on the contact quantity and whatsapp quantity: 9531802228 of the Andaman and Nicobar Police.
