No money paid: Auto drivers :: Many parked vehicles do not move all day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 08 2016:
Auto (petrol) drivers/owners who usually park their vehicles in front of PC Jain, opposite Majorkhul Main Gate, near Jallan provision store, in front of New Airlines Hotel, near OK Hotel, along Thangal Keithel road and five different places of MG Avenue have clarified that they never paid any money to City Police or TCP for parking vehicles at these places.
On the other hand many of the vehicles parked along the road from Thangal Keithel to Khoyathong and MG Avenue do not move even once in day.
Some of them are even covered with hoods.
It was earlier reported that the autos (petrol) parked at these places paid Rs 120 per vehicle per month.
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Even though The Sangai Express did not mention to whom the monthly parking fee was paid, a group of auto (petrol) drivers/owners came to the office of the daily paper and requested to clarify that they never paid money for parking at the specified places.
The Sangai Express is making this clarification in the interest of the auto (petrol) drivers/owners who have been earning their livelihood with the autos.
Nonetheless, it is said that monthly fees are being paid for the various types of vehicles belonging to shopkeepers and salesmen which are parked throughout the day in front of their shops along Thangal Keithel road and different roads of MG Avenue.
They are one major factor for traffic congestion at these places but it is anybody's guess whether they should come out with a clarification similar to the one made by auto (petrol) drivers/owners.
Many of the vehicles parked along the road from Thangal Keithel to Khoyathong and MG Avenue do not move even once in day.
Some of them are even covered with hoods.
But none of the authorities concerned have taken up any measures to check such unauthorised parking.