This Article is From May 09, 2012

Delhiites may have to pay more as parking charges

New Delhi: Delhiites may end up paying more as parking charges, if the Commissioners have their way in supplementing the finances of the cash-strapped new municipal bodies of the capital.

The move to impose parking charges by KS Mehra, Commissioner of the undivided MCD, was aborted earlier this year as the political wing of the body was strongly against the proposal due to elections.

Commissioners Manish Gupta (South), PK Gupta (North) and SS Yadav (East) said that the proposal for hike will be brought before the deliberative wings of the municipal bodies in the next one or two months. The percentage hike is yet to be decided.

Meanwhile, East Delhi Municipal Corporation is also starting a drive to catch tax evaders. "There are many property owners, residential as well as commercial, who evade property tax. We will conduct a drive to catch them," Yadav said.

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