THANE: More than 20,000 autorickshaws in Thane region are believed to be running on the streets with the old mechanical meters and quite a few of them have failed to recalibrate their electronic meters in accordance with the newly increased fares, according to Thane RTO NK Patil.
The senior official said the RTO has initiated a campaign in the region to penalize all those auto rickshaw drivers who has failed to recalibrate their e-meters. Patil said the deadline for carrying out the re-calibration of the meters has expired last week, subsequent to which the Thane RTO fined the drivers who have not adhered to the deadline.
He said 26 autorickshaws have been fined in the last one week and close to Rs 46,000 fine collected from them. Patil said adequate time was given to the three-wheeler drivers to recalibrate their e-meters and, moreover, fares were revised in keeping with their demand.
Thane region has close to 50,000 auto rickshaws and extends from Thane to Navi Mumbai and includes the townships in the west including Vasai-Virar as also Bhiwandi, Kalyan-Ulhasnagar, Badlapur and Ambernath.
Citizens complained that though the e-meter system has been introduced quite some time back, most auto drivers in Thane region continue to play truant.
The RTO and the traffic police department's initiative to facilitate a seamless travel for auto rickshaws across the district borders of Mumbai and Thane, commuters continue to be at the mercy of the auto drivers who refuse to drive into Mumbai citing vague rules.
Most commuters who want to continue their journey into Thane are made to disembark at the entry point of Mumbai at the Anand Nagar post on Eastern express highway and the Modella entry point on LBS marg and have to hail another Thane registered auto rickshaw to drive in to the lake city.
In fact, senior BJP functionary Sanjay Kelkar had recently flagged off an auto rally from Thane and drove into Mumbai to create awareness among the regular commuters that they should not fall prey to any incorrect reasoning made by the auto driver for refusing fare.
RTO officials said policy planners in the transport and the urban development department had in the past issued a notification announcing that auto rickshaws and taxi need no permit or sanction to cross into the other side of the city.
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