Abandoned vehicles or khataras, along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, particularly at Sativali, Pelhar, and Chinchoti, pose a hindrance to the infra firm’s current white topping project. Despite efforts to notify police through letters, their requests have been ignored, the firm alleged.

Daily commuters, ambulances carrying patients to Mumbai, school children, as well as people heading to the airport from Palghar district would often get stuck in huge traffic jams due to the ongoing concreting work on the six-lane NH-48. In a bid to alleviate traffic woes, the infrastructure firm has halved its daily white topping work.