Civic body takes back possession of 5 parking lots

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 12

The estate wing of the Amritsar Municipal Corporation took back possession of five parking lots on Friday evening. The contractors of the parking lots — including Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Market Bhandari Bridge, court complex and the Guru Nanak Bhawan City Center — had not deposited the pending amount to the MC. Now, the MC is going to blacklist these contractors.

Estate Officer Dharminder Jeet Singh along with his team and police personnel took back possession of the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Market Stand, Guru Nanak Bhawan parking lot and the parking stand around the court premises and deployed MC employees to manage the lots.

The Estate Officer stated that employees of the contractors would stay there so that the owners of the vehicles parked there did not face any problem.

The contracts of the parking lots ended on May 15. Though the contractors at the Kairon Market and Machhi Mandi Market parking lots had deposited the dues, the MC also took back possession of these two parking lots.

Earlier, the civic body had sent a notice to the contractors of all these parking lots for the payment of their pending dues. There are a total of five parking lots which are functioning under the land wing of the MC. The civic body had allotted these parking lots through e-tendering and contractors paid 50 per cent of the amount before getting a work order. The contractors were not paying the remaining 50 per cent amount.

The MC has floated a tender for the parking lots and it will open on June 21. Till the parking lots are allotted to the new contractors, the MC will manage them on its own.