Over 20,000 abandoned vehicles on Mumbai streets: BMC to appoint agency to remove them to improve walkability
After initiating a drive to remove hawkers from the streets of Mumbai last month, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has taken steps to clear abandoned vehicles parked in public spaces.
The BMC has invited tenders to select an agency that would be entrusted to identify and remove such vehicles to make roads more pedestrian-friendly and improve vehicular flow, said officials.
'As part of this drive, we will be deploying 26 hydraulic vans. As per our estimate over 20,000 abandoned vehicles are parked in several public spaces in Mumbai and removing them will increasingly improve the road space of Mumbai,' said a civic official.
As per the tender floated on April 28, the BMC would spend a minimum of Rs 1 crore annually for the project and the agency will be hired for two years. Civic officials said that according to Section 314 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation (MMC) Act of 1888, the BMC has the right to confiscate and remove abandoned vehicles from public spaces.
According to BMC data, the highest number of abandoned vehicles is located in Dahisar, Borivali, Malad, Andheri, Mulund, and Kanjurmarg in the eastern and suburban belts. At the island city areas like Sion, Wadala, and Dadar, also have a substantial number of abandoned vehicles parked in public spaces.
'Once the agency is finalised, the owners of the vehicles will be identified as per records available in the Regional Transport Office (RTO) database, and notices will be issued to the owners. If they fail to take back the vehicles, the BMC will remove them from the roads and transfer them to the scrapyard, where the vehicles will be kept for a month and sent for auction,' the official said.
However, the authority maintained that the BMC has yet to identify a land parcel for accommodating the abandoned vehicles.
A BMC officer said that very old and inoperative vehicles could be destroyed, and the scrap metals would be either auctioned or sent to the BMC debris processing unit for recycling.
The remaining vehicles will be auctioned to ensure that BMC does not keep them. Last year, the civic body generated revenue of Rs 5 crore by auctioning over 5,000 abandoned vehicles.
Earlier, the civic body had made multiple attempts to clear abandoned vehicles from roads, but they never materialised into concrete moves.
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