Nagpur: The Nagpur-based NGO Janmanch has strongly opposed the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and city police’s move to lift wrongly parked vehicles, imposing a fine of Rs 760 for two-wheelers and Rs 1,020 for four-wheelers. The Janmanch President Rajeev Jagtap termed the fine as nothing but a way to loot citizens.
Posing 13 questions in an open letter to the two government agencies and seeking their public reply, the NGO urged the civic body to first provide parking space, then start such a drive. The NGO added that parking/no parking signs should be installed on all roads in a visible manner. “But nothing has been done and instead a private firm has been assigned to lift the vehicles,” Janmanch stated.
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The NGO sought to know the basis on which the exorbitant fine amount was fixed, why did the civic bodies enter into a seven-year contract with the vehicle lifting firm, and what action NMC-city police took to stop the misuse of parking spaces in commercial complexes, private hospitals etc.
In the past, the traffic police had stopped lifting vehicles after huge protests. “Considering that the number of vehicles in the city is constantly increasing, NMC was expected to increase the number of parking spaces,” the NGO stated.
