The district administration will now penalise pumps that flout basic road norms. Raids on city pumps will begin on June 15.
Following complaints by Gurgaon residents about long, irregular queues in front of CNG filling stations, the district administration has decided to take strict action against pumps that don’t maintain basic road discipline.
Complying with the directions of deputy commissioner (DC) Hardeep Singh, the CNG stations in the city will be raided June 15 onwards.
The decision came after the DC held a meeting on Monday on road-safety issues.
Singh said, “All the three sub-divisional magistrates [SDMs] are directed to raid CNG filling stations across the city, and if they are found to be flouting rules, strict action will be initiated against them.”
The residents have welcomed the move.
“The entry and exit of our condominium is choked by vehicles coming to the CNG station. But hopefully, things will change now. We did request the pump staff several times to manage vehicles — they can at least ask them to form a proper queue — but our pleas fell on deaf ears. Sadly, our society guards had to end up managing the traffic,” said Rahul Mann, a resident of Gurgaon One, a condominium in Sector 22.
Residents allege that vehicles coming to CNG pumps don’t maintain proper queues, resulting in traffic snarls on roads. Pump employees, too, make no effort to streamline the mess.
Recently, 10 condominiums on Sohna Road had staged a two-day protest against the setting up of a CNG pump in Sector 49.
Currently, the city has 15 CNG filling stations.
