The Hindu 26.09.2014
Corporation to frame bylaw to fix parking fee
This will help curb violations: Deputy Mayor
The city Corporation has decided to frame a bylaw to
enable it fix parking fee for commercial complexes, private hospitals,
and theatres.
The council, which met here on
Thursday, passed a resolution, moved by the standing committee on
finance seeking to appoint a Revenue Officer to prepare the bylaw.
Deputy Mayor Happy Kumar said the civic body now lacked the powers to curb the levy of parking fee by private establishments.
The
rules would give the civic body the authority to fix the parking fee
and intervene effectively in the event of violations. Hospitals such as
KIMS, YCDC Dermatology clinic, SUT, and some theatre owners had sought
permission to collect fee for vehicles parked on their premises, he
said.
The civic body could serve notices on those
collecting parking fee but it would not stand legal scrutiny as the
present laws governing the corporation was silent on this aspect, he
said.
Councillors of the United Democratic Front
(UDF) criticised the civic body for not taking steps to prevent private
establishments from ‘fleecing the public.’
The
council passed by voice vote a resolution moved by the standing
committee on health seeking no-objection certificates to two bars to
start beer and wine parlours. The UDF members opposed the resolution but
the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) passed the resolution with the
support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
UDF
councillors said the BJP was extending support to start beer and wine
parlours when its leaders were speaking in favour of prohibition. UDF
councillors staged a walkout after LDF councillors supported a
resolution urging the State government to withdraw the recent hike in
water tariff and the imposition of additional taxes.
