Cidco demarcates plot but delays constructing building which will include space for traffic personnel
NAVI MUMBAI: The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) allotted a plot for constructing a building for Kopar Khairane police station at sector 19 in 2009.
After six years, the building is yet to come up on the plot.
Kopar Khairane got an independent police station in 2008 after being under the Turbhe police for years.
As of now, the police station is being run from the first floor of a building at sector 6.
As the half of the first floor is occupied by a post office, it is crowded with people, turning the space into a complete mess.
The police station does not have a lock-up, washrooms, space to keep the seized vehicles and rest room for officers.
The strong room used for keeping recovered valuables is also not safe. The police keep their firearms at one corner of the swagat kaksh, due to insufficient space in the premises.
“We have 140 officers working in different shifts. Six to seven rooms are not sufficient for such a huge staff. Officials working in the night shift can’t take a brief rest now,” said a police officer from the police station.
“As there is no lock-up on our premises, we have to keep the arrested people in the lock-up of APMC police station. Our office vans have to be parked on the roads as there is no space inside the compound. Because of this, residents object to traffic officials taking action on illegal parking,” he added.
The police are not the only ones facing difficulties because of Cidco’s lethargy. One corner of the plot at Sector 19 houses a temporary office of the traffic unit. Cidco is reportedly planning to construct the building which can accommodate both the police station as well a traffic unit. So the traffic officials are also waiting for the permanent space in the building.
“The building’s construction should have started in January. Before we started the project, the proposal of constructing the building for both of the city police and traffic officers came to us and it got delayed again. One floor of the building will be given to the traffic unit. It will take us some more months to start work and several things pertaining to the project are yet to be finalised,” said a Cidco official.
Mohan Ninawe, senior public relations officer of Cidco, said, “We recently finished the construction of the NRI police station along Palm Beach Road and it is waiting for inauguration. I won’t be able to say anything about the Kopar Khairane police station at this moment as I don’t know much about it.”
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