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In little than a week, towing of wrongly parked vehicles volition instrumentality to the city, arsenic Bengaluru’s metropolis corporations person procured tow vehicles and are readying to property them into work adjacent week.
A well-placed root confirmed to The Hindu that the East and South part constabulary person received 2 towing vehicles each, portion the North and West divisions are expected to person theirs successful the adjacent fewer days.
West Corporation Commissioner K.V. Rajendra said that the tender process has been finalised and the bid would beryllium issued soon. “We are procuring 10 towing vehicles, and 1 volition beryllium allotted to each constituency,” helium told The Hindu.
In the archetypal phase, towing vehicles volition beryllium deployed successful high-density corridors and stretches that often witnesser postulation congestion owed to haphazard parking. However, a elder constabulary serviceman confirmed that an enactment program detailing the timing, stretches, and locations for deployment is yet to beryllium drawn up.
The superior interest that led to the suspension of towing operations earlier was owed to harassment during the removal of vehicles. In 2022 erstwhile the BJP was ruling the State, past Home Minister Araga Jnanendra ordered a halt to towing operations aft receiving aggregate complaints of harassment by backstage towing agencies. Several videos surfaced online showing touts harassing motorists for money, leaving the Police Department red-faced.
To code the issue, the constabulary decided to wholly exclude backstage players from towing operations this clip and alternatively impact the metropolis corporations. This determination was archetypal discussed betwixt the postulation constabulary and officials of the erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) astir 7 months ago.
The postulation constabulary had requested the BBMP to procure towing vehicles and assistance successful the exercise. As per the knowing betwixt the 2 departments, metropolis corporations volition present supply towing services, portion the constabulary volition oversee the imposition of fines. “The gross generated from the fines volition beryllium shared betwixt the corp and the constabulary department,” the serviceman told The Hindu.
If everything goes arsenic planned, the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) volition deploy towing vehicles from adjacent week successful astatine slightest 15 of the 96 corridors earlier identified for restarting towing operations. Traditionally, the BTP collected ₹4 to ₹5 crore annually done towing-related fines. However, the section present expects gross of astir ₹1 crore, arsenic the workout volition initially beryllium constricted to selected locations.
