Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
Traffic Control Branch and Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Friday conducted a meeting of traffic advisory committee at Swagat lawns. Stakeholders including members of transport and autorikshaw organisations, NGOs working for creating awareness, vigilant citizens and students attended the meeting and submitted their views to streamline traffic on city roads.
Issues like proper stoppage for Star buses, private buses, autorikshaws were discussed and many citizens appealed the authorities to provide designated places for stoppage. Harishchandra Pawar, office-bearer of Nagpur Zilla Auto Chalak Malak Sanghatana said, autorikshaw drivers are ready to operate with meter tariff and authorities should take steps in this regard. He also threatened to taken out morcha against operation of Ola and Uber within city limits.
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| DCP (Traffic) Smartna Patil addressing the stakeholders while Deputy RTO Ravindra Bhuyar, Assistant RTO Rupkumar Belsare, Dr Anil Laddhad and others look on. |
Another Autorikshaw organisation representative said that more than 100 authorized Autorikshaw stands are required in the city and lamented that NIT and NMC are not paying attention towards it.
Representative of transport organisatons said, they need truck terminus at major entry points of city so that they can unload the goods there and further carry forward them in city using mini trucks. They also demanded facilities at truck parking plaza available at North Nagpur. A young resident of Manish Nagar demanded deployment of traffic cops at Manish Nagar railway crossing gate to streamline the traffic movement.
After hearing grievances, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Smartna Patil assured that necessary action would be taken in stipulated time period. DCP Patil will conduct a special meeting with transport organisation to solve their grievances. “Grievances of the transporters need to be discussed with NMC and NIT authorities,” said Patil. She asked Autorikshaw drivers to operate the vehicles with meter so that citizens would not suffer. Deputy RTO Ravindra Bhuyar asked the statkeholders that public participation is needed for any successful initiative. “The RTO will take necessary action on suggestions,” assured Bhuyar. Assistant RTO Rupkumar Belsare, Dr Anil Laddhad and Ravindra Kaskhedikar of Janakrosh were also present.
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