Chandigarh, April 27 -- Still suffering the jolt of property and collector rate hikes, Chandigarh residents may soon feel another pinch in their wallets - this time due to increased parking charges.

Barely a month after the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) scrapped its long-pending Smart Parking Project, the civic body is back with a fresh proposal - complete with steeper parking charges and a push to revive the plan through a public-private partnership (PPP) model.

The agenda, which will be tabled for discussion in the upcoming MC General House meeting on April 30, also introduces new mechanisms to gather vehicle-stay data through integrated POS machines, with software support proposed from the Society for Promotion of IT in Chand...