Joint commissioner reviews parking ops, revenue collection across Chandigarh

Filed by Deepak YadavTimes News NetworkChandigarh: Aiming to strengthen the management and monitoring of paid parking sites across the city, Chandigarh joint municipal commissioner Inder Jeet on Wednesday chaired a review meeting, wherein a detailed review of parking operations, revenue collection, deployment of parking attendants and overall site management was undertaken. Multiple directions were issued to ensure transparency, accountability and smooth functioning of paid parking sites across the city.The joint municipal commissioner has directed all junior engineers concerned to submit daily cash collection reports of each paid parking site to the parking branch of the civic body on a regular basis. He further instructed the officials to maintain complete details of all parking attendants, including their place of posting, and physically verify their deployment at the respective sites.Emphasising the need to prevent revenue leakage, he also directed officers to conduct regular inspections and ensure that no vehicle enters any paid parking site without payment of the prescribed parking fee. The sub-divisional engineers and junior engineers concerned were also instructed to immediately report any irregularities noticed during inspections.To improve efficiency and optimize parking operations, the executive engineers of road divisions were directed to identify parking sites generating low revenue and submit detailed reports so that appropriate decisions regarding continuation or discontinuation of such sites could be taken.Special attention was given to the parking sites at Sector 34 Piccadilly backside, Piccadilly right side and Sector 43, Chandigarh, where the officers concerned were asked to submit one-month day-wise revenue records for detailed assessment and monitoring.The meeting also discussed traffic management and parking arrangements near Elante Mall. To improve traffic movement and streamline parking operations at the site, the executive engineer concerned was directed to arrange barricading wherever required. It was further decided that a request would be sent to Bank of Baroda for resolving battery-related issues in the POS machines installed at the Elante Mall parking site to facilitate smooth digital transactions for the public.Box: Mayor lays foundation stone for new water supply project in DhanasMayor Saurabh Joshi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for the work of laying a new water pipeline in Milk Colony, Dhanas. On the occasion, Joshi said the existing old water supply pipeline in the area was facing leakages for several years, resulting in water wastage and repeated damage to roads, causing inconvenience to residents, and thus, the project for laying a new water supply pipeline would be laid down to ensure smooth, efficient and uninterrupted water supply in the locality.