Rajinder Nagarkoti
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 27
The Chandigarh Administration has rejected the decision of the MC House to end the paid parking system and privatise it on the pattern of maintenance of roundabouts in the city.
The Administration has rather issued a notice to the MC under Sections 403 and 405 of the Municipal Act to reconsider its decision. The Administration wants to increase the paid parking charges in the city. Besides, it does not want to privatise the paid parking lots and to allow installation of advertisement hoardings in the parking lots.
The Administration had sent a note to the MC in this regard, which is now coming up for discussion in the MC House meeting on November 30.
In the last MC House meeting on October 29, it had unanimously rejected the agenda of increasing the paid parking charges in the city. It had resolved to end the paid parking system and privatise it on the pattern of maintenance of roundabouts in the city. It had also turned down a proposal for increasing the paid parking lots from 26 to 93 in the city.
The House had approved the recommendations of a five-member committee, formed to finalise the terms and conditions for the paid parking lots.
The panel, comprising councillors Pardeep Chhabra, Mukesh Bassi, Arun Sood, Saurabh Joshi and Maj Gen DS Sandhu (retd), at a meeting on September 30, had suggested that instead of giving the paid parking lots to contractors, the MC should hand these over to private companies. The private companies will deploy their staff and can display their advertisements on parking slips, barricades and the staff uniform. In return, the MC will get a revenue from the companies and people will be able to park their vehicles free of cost, the panel suggested.
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