Pramesh S Jain
Greater Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda symbolically flagged off the towing of abandoned vehicles near Varahi Temple in M.D.Block, Gandhinagar Assembly Constituency,under the Central City Corporation of the Greater Bengaluru Authority.
*Data on abandoned vehicles identified through the Astram software so far.
Identified by Traffic Police:2,751
Identified by the Public: 1,498.
*Total abandoned vehicles identified:4,249.
Across the five City Corporations under the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA),notices have been affixed to 1,034abandoned vehicles.So far,owners of 72 vehicles have paid the prescribed penalty and reclaimed their vehicles.
On the occasion, local MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao,Central City Corporation Commissioner G.Jagadeesh,Additional Commissioner,Venkata Chalapathi,Joint Commissioner Hemanth Sharan,Chief Engineer,Vijay Kumar Haridas,and other officials were present.
