AGARTALA, June 19 (TIWN): Police personnel of Tripura west Police station along with SDPO sadar Rajendra Datta jointly organized a massive drive on the roads from Post Office Chownuhani to Kaman Chowmuhani on Friday morning for checking the illegal parking on the roads.

Talking to TIWN correspondent, SDPO Sadar Rajandra Datta stated that this drive was mainly aimed at issuing a warning to the businessmen and the workers of the shop along the Post Office Chownuhani to Kaman Chowmuhani road not to park any kind of vehicles in front of their shops as it clogs the traffic movement.

During the eviction drive, it was noticed that the police personnel were asking the consumers to remove their vehicles including motor-bikes, car, from the no-parking zone as the parking of vehicles at the no parking zone on the roadside causes inconvenience to smooth traffic movement, and more seriously to pedestrians. Widened portions of the roads get fully occupied mostly in the evening for parking and create clogging on either side the road and along the rickshaw pullers were asked not to park the rickshaws in any side of the road nor in front of a house, shop, office for loading and unloading of the passengers, which creates mismanagement in the traffic movement.

The business man were mostly asked to park their personnel vehicles in the parking-zone at Surjya Chowmuhani or Sakuntala road but not in front of their shops on Post Office Chownuhani to Kaman Chowmuhani road, said SDPO Rajendra Datta.

However, the agitated shopkeepers alleged that the police have asked them to remove the unauthorized flex banners extended from the shed of the shop as it clogs the movement of the big vehicles on the road. They further stated that how will they promote their shop to the consumers without placing banners and posters.

The business man has now decided that they will file complaint against the decision of the police under Public Interest Litigation.

Police has warned the businessmen not to park vehicles in the no-parking zone in front of the shops and if it continues further they will take strict actions.

It is to be mentioned that as the traffic department has identified the two most popular roads of the Agartala city which covers the route from Airport to the University which covers Natunnagar, capital complex, Haradhan Sangha, Colonel Choumuhani, Nagerjala, AD Nagar, ONGC, Hapania, Amtali to Tripura University and the other road is from Battala to Asram Chowmuhani which are mostly crowded with vehicles and with this drive the department aims at providing free running of vehicles on the roads .