Men threaten to dump taxis at CM’s house

Mumbai: The Mumbai Taximen’s Union has threatened to dump taxis at chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ official residence Varsha on November 15, if the Regional Transport Office (RTO) fails to comply with the Bombay high court order to avail the test track for the taxis’ fitness certificate. The Mumbai Taximen’s Union has written a letter to Mr Fadnavis about how taxi drivers are being harassed by the RTOs. The fitness certificates of over 5,000 taxis in the city have expired and the drivers of these taxis are waiting for renewal of their certificates for the past two months.

A.L. Quadros, general secretary, Mumbai Taximen’s Union, said that they had written two letters to the principal secretary of the transport department in October but did not get any response from the transport commissioner or the transport secretary for any meeting.