Personal vehicles are an integral part of a person living in a city. These vehicles aid to the much necessary easy access for transportation. However, along with increased number of vehicles, the number of scrapped and unclaimed vehicles is also increasing. On the streets, in society or even outside houses, there are many vehicles occupying the space with dust all over it. They are a useless piece of scrap just laying there unclaimed.
Even after looking at the gravity of the situation, the people, as well as the administration, overlook the problem. Instead of offering solutions, people choose to ignore it. However, the residents of Thakur Village in Kandivali were resolved to solve the issue for better. So, the residents have launched a campaign, ‘Operation Khatara’.
The ‘Soch Sayani’ group from Thakur Village has conducted several programs over the years. And last month, this year, they started the ‘Operation Khatara.' The 150-member strong group has prepared a catalogue which has the record of the scrap vehicles. Soch Sayani plans to submit the catalogue to BMC and RTO next week and will continue to go ahead with the camapign till next week. So far, 50 scrap cars have been registered.
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The Soch Sayani members created Google forms and appealed to any person seeing scrap cars should fill the form. The catalogue is maintained as per the data provided by the forms. The group plans to send BMC and RTO, a letter along with the catalogue. After which they said it would consider the decision of BMC and RTO to take further steps.
In an exclusive conversation with Mumbai Live about the inspiration for ‘Operation Khatara’, Lalit Kumar, a member of Soch Sayani, said “Wherever you go in Mumbai, you’ll find a scrap car. We (Thakur Village) too had many scrap cars in the locality. It was all fine until one day the water supply pipeline of the society burst and it couldn’t be repaired because it was under an unclaimed scrap car. This led us to resolve the problem of scrap cars and thus began Operation Khatara.”
Along with Harsha Udupi; Hema Rao, Lalit Kumar, Ravi Kalra, Shruti Patra and others have been working for the campaign. Hema Rao told that they have seen scrap cars on either side of the roads to Thakur Village. She further explained that monsoon is drawing close and how the unclaimed cars at their places would be a perfect place for mosquitos to breed.
Shruti Patra told that RTO is planning to work upon the catalogues sent to them, and will issue a notice with a 15-day deadline to the owners to move the cars and if nobody shows up, the vehicles would be removed from there.
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