322 clunkers go in 1st auction, off to scrapyard

For the first time, 322 khataaras that cluttered the roads outdoor site visitors police chowkies within the city for 15 years were auctioned off on Wednesday. The site visitors police processed the sale thru Metal Scrap Trade Corporation Ltd, a Kolkata-based executive frame that specialises in e-auction, and raked in Rs 15.01 lakh.

Another 600 cars will be disposed of within the next auction. Confirming the sale, Amitesh Kumar, joint commissioner of Mumbai site visitors police, stated the buyers will clutch their cars next and take them out of the town to turn them into scrap. A site visitors police officer stated it had grow to be imperative to eliminate the deserted cars outdoor the 30-odd police chowkies within the city within the face of loss of choice solutions.

The site visitors police say releasing up house will permit extra deserted cars close to the premises of their 30-odd chowkies to be towed

“They were eating into street house due since May 2018 to unfastened the roads of deserted cars, the state executive had found some way not to best eliminate such cars however to also discourage folks from abandoning them anywhere they wanted to without any concern of consequences. The executive had then issued a central authority answer asking the site visitors division to start charging a tremendous of Rs 50 per hour once a khataara’s owner used to be identified and served a notice.

The urgent issue of deserted cars has even were given the attention of the Bombay High Court, which has thru a chain of directives added tooth to the existing rules on deserted cars and put the onus of duty of discovering a long-lasting method to the risk on the state executive and the police. Following court cases to their WhatsApp helpline number— 8454999999—the site visitors police have towed away greater than 1,500 deserted cars.