JAMSHEDPUR: Pedestrians are experiencing trouble walking down pavements at various market places in Jamshedpur as vehicles are being parked at footpaths and no parking areas, despite regular drives by the traffic police.Up-markets like Bistupur and Sakchi besides Jugsalai, Golmuri, Sidhgora and Kadma deal with this problem the most because of the non-compliant behaviour of the motorists."The habit of parking vehicles on the pavement is apparently rooted deep in the mindset of the citizens therefore, they don't realise they are wrong legally and morally causing difficulty to the pedestrians at the crowded markets," said Anjan Sarkar, a 54-year-old medical representative, saidBut Subroto Mandal, a trader, said, "Lack of parking areas in the close vicinity is also the reason for the two-wheelers to park vehicles near various shops (on the pavement)."A Sakchi-based Ayurvedic medicine shopkeeper said shopkeepers too are responsible for hindrance on the pavement. "Considerable space of the footpath is occupied by the advertisement boards of the shopkeepers besides fruit vendors also put up their makeshift shops on the footpath in the market," the businessman said under the condition of anonymity.The deputy SP (traffic) Shivendra Kumar said action against unauthorized parking of the vehicles is almost regular and law violators are penalized in accordance with the rules of the Motor Vehicles Act.

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