NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment department and the traffic police will launch a joint action across the city from next week to remove encroachments in the city, said mayor Dayashankar Tiwari.
Rampant encroachments on roads, pavements and river sides have adversely affected vehicular traffic and created bottlenecks.
On Friday, Tiwari convened a meeting in this regard with NMC’s enforcement department and traffic police.
Recently, leader of opposition Tanaji Wanve had raised the issue in the general body meeting and demanded action against automobile workshops operating along the roads and on footpaths.
Wanve also raised the issue of second-hand vehicle dealers displaying vehicles on footpaths and roads, especially between Baidyanath Chowk and Jagnade Chowk.
The mayor pointed out that vehicle repair and denting-painting workshops have been set up all over the city.
He also cited example of footpaths on both sides of Agrasen Chowk to Chitnis Park road that have been occupied by dealers of old two-wheelers.
NMC has no authority to take action against such vehicles.
But Nagpur police can take joint action with the NMC against those selling vehicles from footpaths, the mayor said.
Additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi, deputy commissioner Mahesh Moroney, police inspectors (traffic) Deepak Sakhare, Sanjay Jadhav, PSI Umakant Jadhav, ARTO Martand Nevaskar, assistant municipal commissioners Prakash Warade, Ashok Patil, Ganesh Rathod, Ghanshyam Pandhare, Kiran Bagade, Sushma Mandge and Sadhana Patil attended the meeting.