ARTO Bandipora comes down heavily on road encroachers who park vehicles on main roads
Four vehicles blacklisted; Strict action to continue against violators, says ARTO
Suhail Rather
Bandipora, August 24: Taking strict steps against road encroachers & in order to curb the road side parking of vehicles, Assistant Regional Transport Officer (ARTO), Bandipora has decided to blacklist all offenders caught parked on the wrong side of the road.
Kick-starting the drive, ARTO on Tuesday blacklisted atleast four vehicles in different areas of Bandipora including a truck in Nusoo area.
Move comes when today ambulance stucked in traffic jam in Nusoo area for more than 10 minutes and when netizens took social media sites seen requesting higher ups to look into the matter .
“From next week, more strictness will be enforced as permanent cancellation of permits of commercial vehicles will begin,” said officials.
Officials in ARTO office said,“If a person is caught breaching the rule, for the first instance his papers will be put up at ARTO office. Accordingly, the ARTO officials will then categorize him as a first-time offender and subsequently his licence will be suspended for a period ranging from three to six months.”
“Later, if the same person is found repeating the offence, his licence will be cancelled permanently and he will be blacklisted at the ARTO,” they said.
An official said that parking of vehicle on roads led to most of the accidents and it makes roads vulnerable to mishaps.
“We started imposing fines and filing FIRs against traffic offenders, but even that did not helped us to curb this offence on roads, so now we have decided to bar such offenders from driving permanently,” he added.