Chandigarh, March 18 -- After a gap of four years, the Chandigarh administration is set to resume paid parking at Sector 26 grain market. A Rs.1-crore tender will be floated next week, under which shoppers will be required to pay for parking their vehicles, while farmers will be exempt from paying the parking fees.

Currently, parking on the grain market premises is free, but visitors struggle with unorganised parking and frequent traffic congestion. This time, the tender includes a provision that no parking fee will be collected at the entry gate. The move follows an earlier intervention by the Punjab and Haryana high court, which led to legal action against the previous contractor for charging fee at the entrance.

According to the admi...