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| Motorists being taken for a ride as administration yawns | | Exorbitant parking fee at railway station | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 3 : Hundreds of passengers and local residents who daily park their vehicles inside parking lot of Railway station premises have been taken for a ride by the organised racket mushrooming in blatant connivance of senior railway authorities and contractors without any check.
For last couple of months, motor vehicle owners have been forced to pay Rs 30 per car and Rs 10 for a two wheeler without duly informing them. Though the contractor has displayed the parking fee at the entry barricade but the notification do not exist anywhere. In the absence of any notification or a circular issued by the concerned authorities the contractor who is responsible for running the parking lot is charging hefty sum of Rs 30 for a four wheeler and RS 10/15 for a two wheeler depending upon the duration for which the vehicle remain parked in the statton premises. Ironically, if some local resident, who visit railway station to see off his/her relative or to receive some guest, refuse to pay the hiked amount the local contractors and his caretakers misbehave with them and use abusive language forcing them to shell out the desired amount. Even if some visitor is not interested in parking his vehicle and wish to drop some of the visitors at the railway station even then he/she had to shell out a sum of Rs 30 for taking their vehicle inside the station premises. Whenever motorists look for notification or ask anyone about the increased parking charges the railway station authorities donot give them satisfactory replies. Most of the time instead of giving a patient hearing the authorities abuse the passengers and local residents creating a big scene on the railway platform. Outside the parking lot when daily passengers who park their vehicle approached the office of taxi operators union where parking lot contractor was present they failed to produce any such circular and had a piece of paper to show without any official stamp or signature of any authority. Justifying the hike of parking fee one of the parking lot caretaker said, it is the railway authorities who have fixed the parking lot fee and they have not hiked it on their own. If this was the case even the station manager failed to produce the circular despite frequent requests. Each day large number of local residents argue against unwanted hike of parking fee and come out empty handed after lodging a strong protest with the railway authorities to reconsider the decision of hiking the parking fee. |
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