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RTA to auction seized vehicles
The RTC Greater Hyderabad Zone has 25 depots and a fleet of over 3,500 buses. Officials say at any point of time there would be around 150 buses in each of these depots. The result is that there is normally no space for taking up maintenance, cleaning and repair works pertaining to the vehicles.
‘Solution’ to mounting piles in RTC depots
Hyderabad: With pleas coming repeatedly from the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) to remove all seized vehicles dumped in RTC depots, Road Transport Authority (RTA) officials have decided to begin auctioning seized vehicles in case there are no claimants despite issue of notice.
Of late, the RTA authorities have been moving seized vehicles to RTC bus depots because of lack of space in most RTA offices. However, this exercise has become a millstone around the neck of RTC, whose officials have written to the Transport Department several times that they were unable to park their own buses in several RTC depots because of the vehicle dumps.
The RTC Greater Hyderabad Zone has 25 depots and a fleet of over 3,500 buses. Officials say at any point of time there would be around 150 buses in each of these depots. The result is that there is normally no space for taking up maintenance, cleaning and repair works pertaining to the vehicles.
Further, there is no place left to accommodate new buses and since there is no scope for establishing new depots in the city, the existing RTC depots are running short of space on their own premises. At times, RTC buses are parked outside the depots because of the lack of space on the premises.
The depots of RTC in locations like Ranigunj, Mehdipatnam, Falaknuma, Rajendranagar, Kukatpally and elsewhere are running out of space because of the seized vehicles dumped there by RTAs. In some of these depots the seized vehicles have turned into huge, unmanageable piles.
According to officials, RTA did send notices to the owners of the vehicles, based on the engine and chassis numbers, enabling them to stake claim on the vehicles. Meanwhile, the Transport Department moves the seized vehicles to RTC depots, collects parking charges from the vehicle owners and pays that to the RTC. The RTA officials also publish the engine and chassis numbers on the Transport Department’s website before taking up auction.
Joint Transport Commissioner J Pandurang Naik told The Hans India that the exercise of identifying the vehicles was going on and that the auction of the vehicles would be taken up from January. He said that from the next year unclaimed vehicles would be auctioned every month.
Every month one RTA office or one RTC depot would be taken up and the vehicles there auctioned. Already 165 vehicles had been listed for auction. The authorities would send notices to the addresses of the vehicle owners and still if there was no claimant, the vehicle would be auctioned, he added.
By K Chandrashekar
