24/3/2018
PUNE: The
ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took a U-turn on the city’s new parking
policy and postponed its implementation by six months, appointing a committee
headed by Pune mayor Mukta Tilak to look into the matter.
Meanwhile, the new parking policy - no free public parking at
any time, any where - will be executed on only five roads in the city. The
parking policy was to come up before the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC)
general body for final approval on Friday, but the BJP’s sudden change of plan
removed the need for the same.
The BJP had earlier approved the parking policy in the
standing committee on the instructions of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Opposition
party leader, the Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Arvind Shinde declined the
invitation to join the new parking committee and demanded only experts in the
field be on it.
BJP members Sunil Kamble and deputy mayor Siddharth Dhende
suggested scrapping parking charges for the night hours completely. Several
elected members then suggested executing the policy on a pilot basis on five
roads. All opposition parties said that they are not opposed to the policy, but
did not want to execute it hurriedly.
Several opposition parties
held agitations in front of the PMC headquarters with much slogan shouting and
banner waving to oppose the implementation of the policy.
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