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NEW DELHI: Residents of neighbouring Noida and Ghaziabad have been greatly inconvenienced by the decision of the Administration in these two districts not to allow entry to three-wheelers and taxis of Delhi on the ground that there are now eco-friendly CNG-run vehicles there as well. The transport officials of these townships insist that since Delhi does not allow their CNG vehicles to ply in the Capital, they are just "reciprocating the gesture". But this has led to a major problem for both the daily commuters and those passengers, who travel to these townships from the airport, railways stations or bus termini in Delhi. The general secretary of the Transport Unit of Delhi BJP, Rajendra Soni, said despite the fact that at all these major transport destinations, the pre-paid booths are operated by the Delhi Traffic Police, who make out the travel slips, the transport officials of Noida and Ghaziabad have been for the past two weeks stopping vehicles at the borders and challaning them huge amounts. "While the taxis have been made to pay up to Rs 6,000, the TSRs have been challaned up to Rs 3,100,'' he claimed. Due to the conduct of the transport officials, the passengers are forced to get off the vehicles at the borders. And since there is no parking space on the U.P. side there for them to board alternate vehicles, they are subjected to great inconvenience. Stating that the old system of allowing Delhi's vehicle access into Noida and Ghaziaband should be continued as it was in the spirit of the National Capital Region concept, the president of the IGI Airport unit of the transport section of BJP, Vinod Kumar, said the Uttar Pradesh Government should honour the agreement it had reached with the Delhi Government on the issue so that both the passengers and the drivers are not unnecessarily victimised. The secretary of the transport unit, Devendra Singh, said the action of the transport officials in Uttar Pradesh was arbitrary and unwarranted. He said their argument that Delhi does not allow their vehicles to ply in its territory and so they would do likewise, does not hold water as Delhi has stringent pollution rules in place and needs to comply with them.
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