Two days after guidelines were issued for regional transport officers (RTOs) across the State to create a broker-free environment, an eviction drive was launched on Monday to remove the unauthorised constructions near the RTO offices in the State capital.

The demolition drive was carried out in front of the RTO-I office at Acharya Vihar by officials of the Bhubaneswar development authority (BDA), the Bhubaneswar municipal corporation (BMC) and the commissionerate police.

During the eviction drive, 66 pindis and cabins, an OMFED booth, an  OPOLFEED  booth,  a temple  and about 60 feet of a boundary wall constructed on Government land were demolished around the RTO-I office.

The makeshift structures were being used by the dalals to function in the RTO office.

Earlier, transport Ccmmissioner Sanjeeb Panda on September 28 had directed the RTOs to dismantle all temporary structures erected along the boundary wall of Government land. He also instructed the RTOs to put a notice prohibiting agents or middlemen to enter into the office premises and testing tracks.

In a related development, the Transport Department launched two places in the city to issue learner’s licence.

The two places are at the BMC office in Saheed Nagar and the OSRTC office, which are functional from September 30 to October 4.

After the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 came into force from September 1 in the State, there is a huge rush of applicants at the two RTO offices in Bhubaneswar.

It is hoped that the move is likely to reduce rush of applicants at the RTOs and expedite the process in getting a driving licence.