The Hindu 08.12.2011
Court grants Chennai Corporation time over parking lot
The Madras High Court on Wednesday granted four weeks
time for the Chennai Corporation counsel to get instructions as to
whether the proposed construction of a multi-level car parking by the
side of Panagal Park at T.Nagar here will in any way obstruct the park
area.
The First Bench comprising the Chief Justice
M.Y.Eqbal and Justice T.S.Sivagnanam passed the order on a public
interest litigation petition by K.R.Ramaswamy alias ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy,
a social activist.
In his petition, Mr.Ramaswamy
said the civic body had proposed to construct the multi-storeyed car
parking by closing Bashyam Road entrance to park. If the structure is
put up, it would inconvenience to the public who wished to go to the
park. Without considering objections, the corporation had passed a
resolution to construct the facility.
The previous
government proposed to construct the parking facility at the place where
the T.Nagar bus terminus is now located; but the move was later
dropped.
The petitioner said Panagal Park area was already congested as several shop owners had not provided car parking.
He had sent a telegram to the authorities to withdraw the proposal.
He
prayed the court to direct the authorities to take action on his
telegram so that the public could go to the park without any
inconvenience.
When the matter came up, the Government Pleader took notice.
