Rajindra Hospital To Set Up Own Parking

Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital will shortly set up its own multi-storey parking on its premises to make sure that individuals pay fee as per the rates determined by the administration and not according to the whims of private suppliers. The multistoried parking will be built with a total investment of Rs 3 crore.

Whilst the administrative fee for parking a cycle or a scooter is Rs 2 and a car is Rs 5, the private service providers charge Rs 10 for scooters and Rs 20 for cars.

In addition, for manifold entries they charge Rs 20 for scooters and Rs 40 for cars.

There have been examples in the earlier period when the freelancers have manhandled people who have denied paying such high parking fees.

Even efforts by the hospital government to resolve the trouble have been useless as the private service providers didn’t pay any attention to the demands of the government.

The private service providers allegedly wielded some influence in the district administration.

Taking note of these protests, Vini Mahajan, Principal Secretary of the Medical Education and Research Department, has now addressed Dr KD Singh, Principal of the Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital to build a multistoried parking.

Dr KD Singh stated that he had forwarded a letter to the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board about the construction of the parking and the procedure would begin shortly.