Hyderabad: Police and HMDA personnel are not allowing truckers to park at the Moosapet ground which in any case has been shrinking over the years.
In April, during the truckers’ strike, the state government had announced that it would develop truck parks at Pedda Amberpet and Moosapet to accommodate the large number of trucks that enter the city on business.
With the lack of organised parking, truck drivers are regularly issued challans and penalised for wrong parking.
Telangana Lorry Drivers and Owners Association president N. Bhaskar Reddy said that in the last three decades, the parking place at Moosapet had shrunk considerably as parts of the land were given to different establishments. “The government is now driving the truckers out of the land and handing it over to a commercial establishment,” he said. The association is planning to hold protests once again.
He said the government ahd provided lands at different places around the city to park trucks, but transport department offices had come up on those sites.
The area was earlier called the ‘HUDA Truck Park’ when the Telugu Desam government in 1987 allocated the land for parking trucks. In 2005, the Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy government, the HMDA allocated eight acres of the land to a wholesaler and later, ano-ther four acres to the Metro Rail Project.
Following the assurances given to the truckers during talks with government in April, government had promised 10 acres of land at the proposed truck parking in Moosapet.
But for the last two days the HMDA along with police personnel are refusing to let the truckers park their vehicles at Moosapet.
An official from the HMDA said that following the recent truck mishap in Kukatpally, the government had decided to shift the truck parking to Patancheru. “We are allocating 5 acres of land in Survey No. 639 of Patancheru", he said.
