India, June 27 -- Mandeep Kaur Narula does a deep dive why the project proposed in 2022 still hasn't become a reality

1. What happened to the old private parking contractors

The Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) took over the operations of the city's parking lots on February 1, 2023, after the private contractors who had given charge of the parking lots were found to be involved in a multi-crore scam. There are 89 parking lots in the city which are further divided into two zones: 32 in Zone 1 and 57 in Zone 2. In 2020, the MC had auctioned both zones for three years for around Rs.10 crore annually. The contract of both zones expired on January 30, 2023, after an alleged scam involving contractor Anil Kumar Sharma of Paschatya Entert...