nagpur there are over 250 vehicles lying abandoned on various nagpur roads a survey conducted by nagpur city traffic police has foundfollowing a state government notification traffic cops from eight zones surveyed the citys roads and public places and found the vehicles whose owners could not be traced they are a major reason for traffic bottlenecks at different placesthe survey which did not include vehicles seized by the police lying outside police stations found that the maximum number of them 138 were found in east nagpur under lakadganj zone of traffic police department in west nagpur which comes under both sitabuldi and sadar zones 41 and 31 such vehicles respectively were found while 27 and 13 abandoned vehicles were found in indora and ajni zones respectively similarly 10 abandoned vehicles each were found in sonegaon and cotton market zones of traffic policeabandoned vehicles have increasingly become a reason for traffic snarls in several localities these not only pose a traffic menace but have also become a security concern especially on roads in citys outskirt areas and internal roads said a senior traffic cop the motor vehicles rules say a vehicle is considered abandoned if it is found in one place for over 24 hours and adequate steps have not been taken by the owner for its repair andor removal there is a provision in the act to impose a fine of rs50 per hour against owner of the vehicle he saidthe problem was most rampant around old bhandara road kamptee road as per the traffic police report the senior cop said several vehicles they surveyed over a span of two months were lying on roadsides for such a long time that their tyres got buried in the ground he claimed once police action began owners of 65 abandoned vehicles had removed the vehiclesaccording to him 27 vehicles were removed by their owners under sitabuldi zone 23 in indora and 11 in sadar zones we have also handed over four vehicles to yashodhara police station after we failed to trace their owners he saidthe regional transport office or the police had done nothing to seize the vehicles and find and fine the owners sources pointed out citing an example sources said one of the citys transporters had blocked the free left turn at busy automotive square since many years neither the traffic police nor the antiencroachment squad of nagpur municipal corporation took any measure to remove the encroachment sources pointed outthe traffic police acted against the abandoned vehicles only after the state government issued a notification