Calcutta: Cars belonging to senior functionaries of various governments continue to be parked right in front of the airport’s terminal in violation of rules.
Metro on Sunday spotted a number of vehicles — some fitted with beacons and others had boards fixed on their windshields announcing that they belonged to the government — parked in front of the terminal for around 40 minutes or more.
Vehicles are allowed to stay on the airport premises for 10 minutes. If any car stays for a longer period, marshals deployed by the private agency that runs the airport’s parking lot are to collect a fine of Rs 400 from the driver.
On Sunday, so long this newspaper was at the airport, there were no marshals to collect the fine and no cops to shoo away the VIP vehicles parked for long durations.
Sources said the policemen who would patrol the airport premises and look out for rule-flout cars have been deployed elsewhere to prevent any flare-up over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens and to manage the rush during the Christmas-New Year period.
“A few weeks back, following a meeting with officials of various departments, police were asking the drivers of rule-flout VIP cars to park in the designated area on the premises and turn up in front of the terminal only when the fliers were ready to leave. But there has hardly been any police deployment for a few days and VIP vehicles have returned to their old ways,” an official at the airport said.
24/12/19 Snehal Sengupta/Telegraph
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Metro on Sunday spotted a number of vehicles — some fitted with beacons and others had boards fixed on their windshields announcing that they belonged to the government — parked in front of the terminal for around 40 minutes or more.
Vehicles are allowed to stay on the airport premises for 10 minutes. If any car stays for a longer period, marshals deployed by the private agency that runs the airport’s parking lot are to collect a fine of Rs 400 from the driver.
On Sunday, so long this newspaper was at the airport, there were no marshals to collect the fine and no cops to shoo away the VIP vehicles parked for long durations.
Sources said the policemen who would patrol the airport premises and look out for rule-flout cars have been deployed elsewhere to prevent any flare-up over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens and to manage the rush during the Christmas-New Year period.
“A few weeks back, following a meeting with officials of various departments, police were asking the drivers of rule-flout VIP cars to park in the designated area on the premises and turn up in front of the terminal only when the fliers were ready to leave. But there has hardly been any police deployment for a few days and VIP vehicles have returned to their old ways,” an official at the airport said.
24/12/19 Snehal Sengupta/Telegraph
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