Less than two months since imposing high penalties for illegal parking in the city, the BMC has collected a whopping Rs 84 lakh in fines for rules broken, one of which is no parking within 500 metres of public parking lots. On August 23 alone, it collected fines totalling Rs 5.9 lakh. Moreover, there are 300-odd vehicles still lying with the BMC, the fines of which are yet to be collected from their owners.

AS per the BMC circular issued on July 7, the civic body had decided to tow away vehicles found parked within a 500-metre radius of PPLs and levy towing charges apart from other fines on the owners. Initially, the civic body had faced stiff opposition from all quarters but they managed to continue with the drive. However, even after two months of implementing the penalties, 300 vehicles are still lying with them at various parking lots.