Category: Traffic Updates

Abhijit Bangar promptly writing to all agencies to take up work of filling up potholes on top priority. A little prod from Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court pushed the civic machinery in action with Municipal Commissioner. Bangar has written that they need to ensure that roads need to be smoothened to Project Director, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), Chairperson, Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT), General Manager, Maha Metro, and Chief Engineer, Public Works Department (PWD).

Reference of letter from Assistant Commissioner, Zone-VIII about the poor condition of roads was given for NHAI, Bangar specifically underlined stretches on Pardi and Sadar where flyover construction is underway by them. High-intensity rains during the season worsened the situation on the ground already the roads were in bad shape. In the letter, Commissioner also mentioned that they need to address the issue of potholes that have formed on national highway stretches passing through the city. Due to ongoing construction of fly-over On Bhandara Road in Pardi area, one can hardly find any semblance of roads. The contract for flyover also had component relating to construction of concrete road but as primary work has slowed down there is no sign about the repairs to road surfaces yet. The fly-over construction is going on since the last few years on Sadar and Katol Road. The movement of heavy vehicles particularly those carrying pre-stressed concrete structures and concrete mixers to the site put extra load on the tar roads that have caved in at various places.

 By contractors, the corresponding repairs to make this roads vehicle worthy was neglected by leaving people to suffer untold miseries on a daily basis. Taking cognisance of newspaper articles and photos mentioned difficult time for road users, Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court rapped civic body for its failure to provide pothole-free roads in the city it was mentioned on Tuesday.

The letters are dated September 17, 2019, means they were drafted post receipt of communication from the office of Government Pleader to NMC, in the evening. Municipal Commissioner underlined the cognisance taken by HC about potholes in city and said former should take quick steps so that information about action taken can be submitted to the court was mentioned In separate letters to each of the agencies. To GM, Hingna it was mentioned that due to bad conditions of roads the citizens are facing difficulties while driving on them.  Maha Metro, the road stretches on Kamptee, Wardha, Central Avenue, North Ambazari to Hingna. A bad condition of roads can also lead to mishaps and hence they need to be repaired promptly was also underlined by Commissioner. Action plan about repairs the potholes and damaged roads on their project route so that the information can be furnished to HC during next hearing was also asked by him. Time to time the civic body had intimated the agencies to fill up the potholes on the roads stretches where their development work is going on was also underlined by Municipal Commissioner.

Orange City’s record of paying up traffic challans even under the old regime are not encouraging as traffic violators of Nagpur owes the City Traffic Department fines of over Rs 3.51 crore. Though the Parliament has passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill and notified on the hike in fines for traffic violations beginning September 1. The fine is just between the period of February 8 and September 11, this year.  Traffic Department has already raised exchequer for the state by recovering Rs 4,72,08,351 from 1,74,189 challans. Fine worth Rs 3,51,38,350 is in debt on commuters in terms of pending 74,284 challans. Such figures have clearly put the smart citizens of the smart city in contrast.

The statistics fetched from City Traffic Department revealed that the department had issued total 2,48,473 challans worth Rs 8,23,46,701 across the 10 zones viz, Ajni, Cotton Market, Indora, Kamptee, Lakadganj, MIDC, Sadar, Sakkardara, Sitabuldi, and Sonegoan. Compared to last year, the Traffic Department has issued total 2,25,466 challans (worth Rs 5,98,56,000) i.e. comparatively 62,385 challans (worth Rs 1,02,36,700) more, than that for the exact same period, between January 1 and September 10, 2019.

 Between January 1 and September 10, 2018, the department had issued total 1,63,081 challans (worth Rs 4,96,19300). Traffic Department has urged citizens to install ‘MahaTrafficapp’ to avoid any uncertainty and to derive information about challans. Traffic Department has started calling traffic violators and directed zonal traffic officers to collected fine by paying the violators’ home a visit.

This time Nagpur City Police is going viral through the internet and this time for their adorable tweet on Isro spotting Vikram Moon Lander on the lunar surface. The official handle of Nagpur City Police, @NagpurPolice took to social media today to post their tweet which said, “Dear Vikram, Please respond. We are not going to challan you for breaking the signals! #VikramLanderFound #ISROSpotsVikram @isro #NagpurPolice. Isro (Indian Space Research Organisation) announced that they made a successful attempt after finding the lander Vikram in one piece on the lunar surface and after a hard-landing after knowing news finally this tweet has come. With these mission of Isro Chandrayaan-2,  the tweet also hilariously made a hilarious remark on the new Motor Vehicles Act. After it was posted, Nagpur Police’s tweet received a lot of love from the internet across the city.

One Twitter user wrote, “Nagpur Police. Yes, indeed, Hopes of 133 crore Indians attached to #Vikram. It’s truly an exception. And YOUR tweet is EXCEPTIONAL!” another wrote, “That’s a really sweet one. Vikram you can’t break so many hearts, you would not even know how many shed tears for you.” This tweet already had 5.5k retweets and 18k likes. Vikram, with rover ‘Pragyan’ housed inside it, hit the lunar surface after communications with the ground-stations were lost during its final descent, just 2.1 km above the lunar surface, in the early hours of Saturday. “It had a hard-landing very close to the planned (touch-down) site as per the images sent by the on-board camera of the orbiter. The lander is there as a single piece, not broken into pieces. It’s in a tilted position,” an Isro official associated with the mission claimed on Monday. “We are making all-out efforts to see whether communication can be re-established with the lander,” said Isro.