Hindustan Times ( 13 Feb )
carries following news :
The parking policy, which is meant to encourage citizens to use public
transport and fine them for illegal parking, is delayed again, this time owing
to lack of public
response.
Under the residential parking scheme, the citizens are allowed to park on roads outside their housing societies from 8pm to 8am after six months' payment.
After getting municipal commissioner Ajoy Mehta's nod for night
parking in 'A' ward (Churchgate, Cuffe Parade, Kala Ghoda) in January, the BMC received
applications from 235
car owners from 39 housing societies requesting parking space on roads.
Of them, 69 were rejected. The civic body sent payment notices of Rs 1,800
a month to 20 housing societies for 166 car owners who received
the no-objection from the traffic police to park on the roads
However, only
seven housing societies have paid fees , while three others refused as parking will be allowed for only 12 hours
The remaining have been delaying fee payment
Taking note of the poor response , the BMC will
meet citizen activists in south Mumbai this week.
“ There was no deadline for
paying parking fees . However, as it is a pilot project we only have
no-objection certificate from Traffic Police for six months “ , said Kiran Dighavkar , assistant Municipal Commissioner, A ward
“ Many residents had doubts regarding parking timings, towing of
vehicles and parking fees . We will also answer these queries in the meetings “
The area has a population of nearly 150,000 people and also a floating
population of 800,000 daily
A ward is a prime location for commercial complexes
and government buildings and sees a heavy density of vehicular traffic
In my following blog ( sent as email to BMC officers ), I had pointed
out :
·
Why the proposed scheme is “ Un-implementable “ and can only
be observed in its breach
·
Being “ Un-implementable “ , how it will serve as an
assured means for “ Corruption “
·
What is a technology-based solution which will
eliminate human ( read, “ Traffic Police “ ) intervention and automate
annual collection of Rs
9,408 crores of parking fees
Un-ImplementableLaws : Unstoppable Corruption [ 20 Feb 2017
]
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