Lack of parking space causes inconvenience by Archit Watts
Chandigarh, December 14Although the Panjab University authorities have made Student Centre vehicles’ free zone, but there is no parking space provided to students by the authorities, which results into complete traffic chaos near the library.
As a result the students have to park their vehicles on roadside, which causes a lot of trouble to the students and visitors.
Despite the fact that the authorities have placed a board on the road saying “No parking on roadside, Tow away zone”, the students still park their vehicles on the roadside and cause extreme inconvenience to other commuters.
“There is hardly any space left on both sides of the road, any mishap can take place. Even security personnel are deployed there to control the traffic movement, but when there is no parking space what can they do to avoid the inconvenience,” said Varun Madan, a student of the law department.
“The parking lot of library always remain full and have not much space to park all vehicles, that’s why we have to park our vehicles on the roadside,” said Sushil, another student.
Earlier, the authorities have stated that they will construct a separate parking space for the Stu-C visitors, but even after a lapse of more than one month, the construction work has not been started. Naval Kishore, dean students’ welfare (DSW), was not available for his comments.

Published in Chandigarh Tribune on December 15, 2009