Kailash Nath Jasoriya called me about a year back regarding a traffic problem in his locality. Once again he has called me to tell that situation hasn’t improved. He says, “I stay on Ramjas Road and there is a tikki shop by the name of Sindhi Tikki house. He has encroached on the pedestrian’s path and virtually hijacked the entire place around his shop. Now in the evenings, lot of people come there to have tikkis in their cars due to which there is a huge traffic jam. The problem is that people park their cars on both sides of the road and choke it. Traffic constables and local police look the other way round. Since we stay there, we have to face such a big problem. To cover a distance of just 200 metres, it takes sometimes 20 minutes. We are living in a hell and traffic police should do something about it.”The problem of encroachments is affecting commuters and residents in a huge way in Karol Bagh, Rajinder Nagar and Patel Nagar. Forget about encroachments in old Rajinder Nagar roundabout there are seven odd cars, which are not roadworthy only. Two contessas, one Montana, a burnt Maruti car, ambassadors and fiat are among them which I haven’t seen them even moving in the past one year. Though the beat constables just sit on the roundabout, they haven’t thought of depositing these cars in MCD or even tried to find out their owners. They consume precious parking space in the area.I spoke to the SHO of the area about the problem and he told me “if we remove them, then the owners just appear from somewhere.” The cops should understand the problem of the area, as there is hardly any parking space. People are fighting for it and these useless cars are dumped on the roundabout. To top it all just two weeks back someone dumped a brown contessa car, which is in tatters. And since then it hasn’t been moved from there. I think in all such localities where such cars are dumped, cops should conduct a survey and deposit unused cars with the MCD.