Sector 22 Chandigarh: Contractor issued challan for fifth time in month for overcharging

Joint commissioner Virender Chaudhary said the contractor would be dealt strongly as per the terms and conditions of the agreement. “Let me check it out with the branch. If its verified, we would initiate process to suspend the license.”

Sources said the officials even might write to the police to lodge a case against the contractor. The team found the contractor violating several norms repeatedly — parking attendants without uniforms and name plates, non-functioning CCTV cameras and no e-ticketing machine

Last time, the contractor was found charging car owners Rs 10 against Rs 5 and two-wheelers Rs 5 against Rs 2.

The civic body is conducting back to back checks and issued challans after it was reported how the parking attendants were fleecing people by overcharging.

The civic body has now decided to have smart parking solutions and to do without contractors. They will have a common server through which all the parking lots of the city will be monitored. The common server will have the details of each parking lot – how many cars have come in every hour and if there is any haphazard parking in the city.

Multilevel parking lot

With the contract of the multilevel parking lot ending on August 9, the civic body is in a fix how to run it, as it is already going into losses.