Cites time needed for tendering process, other formalities
PANAJI
The pay-parking scheme notified in new areas of the capital city by North Goa Collector, Sneha Gite, IAS, may take around four months to implement, Mayor Rohit Monserrate has said citing time needed for tendering process and other formalities.
"Opening of the tender itself takes about two weeks. Whoever wins the bid will be picked and some other legal and technical formalities are to be met. It should take another four months at least to start executing the notification," Monserrate told The Goan.
The mayor also said that two of the locales mentioned in the Collector's notification – the areas around the St Agnes Church and cemetery and the St Inez crematorium – will be excluded from ‘pay parking’.
“These two areas will not be included in the tendering process. These will be free of pay-parking,” Monserrate said.
Earlier on Monday, Gite had issued the notification which mandated pay-parking in vast areas of the capital, including Miramar near the Sulabh toilet on the beach and near the Maruti temple.
Another area Gite notified for pay-parking was along the vast stretch of intra-city ‘smart road’ from the Caculo Island circle in St Inez right up to the culvert at Tonca’s Sewage Treatment Plant.
Some other stretches of the city’s roads – Dr Dada Vaidya Road, Dr Braganza Pereira Road up to Kala Academy and the Gama Pinto Road at Hotel Palacio de Goa – were also notified for pay-parking.
