Nashik : Towing action has been started due to increase in illegal parking in the city. Despite this, there has been no improvement in the traffic. Rather, the citizens are fed up with the continuous action at the designated places. Therefore, there is a demand to stop the towing action. According to citizens, due to damage to vehicles during towing, wastage of time, mental harassment, Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey announced ‘No Towing’ 8 days ago. With this, the people of Mumbai got rid of towing. The process of towing has started in Nashik since last one year.
The contract was extended in early January, but since the start of the towing action, there has been no concrete result on the traffic problem in the city. Towing of motorcycles and four wheelers is taking place at Meher Signal, Shalimar, College Road, City Center Mall Complex, Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan Complex, Golf Club Ground, Trimbak Naka Complex. In other areas, the problem of careless parking persists. Basically there is no arrangement for official parking in the city. That’s why towing is being said to be illegal.
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have to pay a fine
Before towing the vehicle, information is given through the sound emitter, but this sound does not reach the person arriving in the places of the premises. The vehicle must have been towed before the person concerned reaches the spot. As a result, after putting the vehicle in the van, a fine has to be paid. So it is okay to collect the fine on the spot.
– Ashish Kulkarni, Citizen
Towing action is being claimed to teach the discipline of parking to the vehicle owners. Towing vans in Nashik have CCTV, but the damage caused to vehicles while towing has not reduced. Many times the towing personnel do not listen to the policeman, due to which there are always disputes in the traffic office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police on Sharanpur Road. The towing condition in Nashik is not as good as in Mumbai. Therefore, instead of filling the vault of the wasteful contractor, there is talk of using the option of recovery of fine.
Benefit of contractor only
Towing trucks haul more vehicles than the rules. Towing personnel sit on it. The CCTV system installed on the van is not in use. Only the contractor has benefited from this towing action. The traffic problem was of no avail.
– Rakesh Patil, driver