Navi Mumbaikars’ long wait will be over as the Vashi RTO office is expected to be inaugurated in August at Nerul.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is likely to do the inauguration once Occupancy Certificate (OC) for the building is cleared, sources stated.
The ground plus four-storeyed building constructed in sector 19 of Nerul is spread over 1232.26 sq m area. Though ₹8.84 crore was the allocated budget, officials said the actual cost was likely to be higher. The office is completely ready along with the furniture. The officials are only awaiting OC from Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC).
The new building and the vehicle testing track at Nerul is around 1.2 km away from each other. The office currently is visited by at least 500 people which also goes upto 1000 and more at times. The new building would be easily accessible from Uran phata as well as LP bus stops in Nerul.
For over 19 years, Navi Mumbai residents have been visiting a congested, small and overcrowded deputy Regional Transport Office in Vashi for all sorts of work related to vehicle and their licenses. The Vashi Dy RTO office that comes under Thane Regional Transport Office, was inaugurated only in the year 2004 before which Navi Mumbai residents had to visit Thane RTO for every work.
After six years of getting the plot at Nerul allotted and four years of starting the construction, the Dy RTO office is completely ready and only the Occupancy certificate is pending.
Currently, the Dy RTO office is run in a building at the APMC market on rental basis of which monthly rent is ₹3.65 lakh. The same building has various other offices too including unit I crime branch office of Navi Mumbai due to which there is no enough space in the surrounding of the building for parking of vehicles.
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