Chandigarh seeks report on paid parking management system

CHANDIGARH: While the Chandigarh municipal corporation has failed miserably to run paid parking system in the city, the UT administration has sought report from the civic body on paid parking management system.
A senior municipal corporation (MC) official said that the MC panel has already submitted three different slabs before the MC general house. The matter was discussed in the MC house twice but no decision was taken. They are hopeful that the matter will be decided in the next MC house meeting and accordingly they will send the report to the administration, he added.
The MC panel constituted to examine the new parking policy had proposed three different slabs for parking charges. In the first slab, the fee is proposed at Rs 5 for two-wheelers and Rs 10 for four-wheelers for the first four hours of parking and Rs 10 and Rs 20 for beyond four hours. A daily pass is proposed at Rs 15 for two-wheelers and Rs 25 for four-wheelers. In the second slab, Rs 10 is proposed to be charged from two-wheelers and Rs 20 from four-wheelers for the first four hours of parking and Rs 20 and Rs 40 beyond this limit. A daily pass is proposed at Rs 30 for two-wheelers and Rs 50 for four-wheelers. In the third slab, the fee is proposed at Rs 5 for two-wheelers and Rs10 for four-wheelers for the first hour of parking, Rs 10 and 20 from second to fourth hour and Rs 20 and Rs 40 for beyond four hours.
On June 28 MC house meeting, former mayor and BJP councillor Davesh Moudgil, had submitted that they needed some time to study the 74-page agenda. These are technical issues and related with the entire city’s paid parking management, Moudgil had submitted.
Thereafter, the MC Commissioner KK Yadav decided to hold a special house meeting on July 8 to discuss the agenda item related to paid parking charges and handing over all 90 parking lots to private contractors under smart parking.
The matter was again discussed in the MC house meeting on July 8 but no decision was taken.
Presently, the paid parking management is being handled by the engineering wing staff of the Chandigarh municipal corporation. But as they are not professional to run paid parking system, the residents facing daily problems.