Rajinder Nagarkoti
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 1
After the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation General House rejected the agenda to hike the paid parking charges in the city for the third time yesterday, the UT Administration is now all set to directly hike the parking charges.
A senior official of the UT Administration said they had given enough opportunities to the MC to submit a proposal for a rational hike. They had also issued a show-cause notice to the civic body for its failure to hike the parking charges and had sought a reply by December 4. However, now that the MC had rejected the agenda, the UT would decide on rationally hiking the parking charges to increase revenue generation, the official said.
Yesterday, the Congress and the BJP had opposed the agenda to hike the parking charges in the city. BJP Leader of the Opposition Arun Sood had suggested that instead of increasing the charges, the Administration should privatise it on the pattern of maintenance of roundabouts in the city. He had submitted that instead of giving the paid parking lots to contractors, the MC should hand these over to private companies. The private companies would deploy their staff and could display their advertisements on parking slips, barricades and the staff uniform. In return, the MC would get revenue from the companies and people would be able to park their vehicles free of cost, he had stated.
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