Draft parking policy: Consult stakeholders before taking final call, Bansal tells UT

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 11

Former MP Pawan Kumar Bansal has written to the UT Chief Architect that wider consultations be held with different sections of stakeholders before taking a final decision on the draft parking policy for residential areas.

In response to objections invited by the UT Administration, Bansal has requested that Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs), traders’ bodies, Industry, institutions, members of the Municipal Corporation, the Zila Parishad, the Market Committee etc and employees should be involved in finalising the policy.

The former Union Minister said the proposed mandatory norm of plying of staff buses by companies with more than 50 employees might be well intentioned, but it would mean waste of time and precious fuel.

The Congress leader also said the Administration has come up with two unreasonably heavy levies in the form of Certificate of Entitlement (exceeding even the value of the car) and road tax up to half the price of the second car.