CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh administration should construct community parking in the Public Participation Program (PPP) mode and under the build-operate-transfer scheme in the city. The proposal was mooted out by the Federation of the Sectors Welfare Association Chandigarh (Foswac) during a meeting with the UT adviser, Manoj Parida.
A four-member delegation met the UT adviser and proposed that the government should offer a land to private firms to construct community parking under the PPP mode.
This is one of the long pending demands of the residents as they had complained multiple times to the authorities concerned about lack of space in various sectors but all in vain. They said fights among residents for parking space became a regular affair.
The residents said due to narrow roads in various sectors and lack of parking space, the community parking was a necessity of the area.
The members suggested that the MC should charge a monthly parking fee of Rs 200 per car and Rs 100 per scooter instead of charging daily as this would generate more revenue to the MC than the current system.
A delegation comprising the chairman, Baljinder Singh Bittu, general secretary J S Gogia, secretary R S Gill and secretary Sandeep Bhalla of Foswac per present during the meeting.
Bittu also raised the issue of urgent need of implementation of citizen charter in all departments like the MC, CHB, estate office, education, health and police in a transparent manner.
The delegation expressed the need of involving the RWAs in decision making if the government wanted to succeed in the implementation of their schemes related to the public. The apex body, Foswac, should also represent in all the advisory committees like the vending zone committee, law and order, traffic and implementation of bylaws on garbage collection.
The delegate emphasised on the need of coordination of all the departments for public service at one complaint window and save the citizens from door to door harassment and waste of time.