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PANAJI
A majority of the central Panaji area will soon be covered under pay parking system, as the Corporation of the City of Panaji is all set to re-tender the pay parking work in all 18 city locations notified by the collector (North Goa) as pay parking zones.
Earlier, the corporation had implemented pay parking system in only a few of these notified locations in central Panaji area, including the busy 18th June Road and the Church Square.
Coming out with this information, city mayor Surendra Furtado on Monday said that after M/s Straight Deal Services, an agency previously employed by the CCP for pay parking fee collection in few of the city locations, failed to pay the due amount to the corporation, he has now send all the agreement papers pertaining to re-tendering of pay parking work to the advocate of the city civic body.
“The advocate has plugged all the loopholes in this agreement and has made it foolproof with no room for any appointed agency to dupe the corporation,” he added.
“I will be putting up the agreement as well as the proposal for re-tendering the particular work before the councillors during the forthcoming meeting of the council,” the city mayor informed, stating that the tender for all 18 notified pay parking locations would be floated after receiving clearance from the councillors.
“Furthermore, I propose to seek bank guarantee from the agency, which would be awarded the said work, that would be equivalent to the entire amount of tender, so that if the agency fails to pay the decided amount to the CCP, then we can forfeit this entire bank guarantee amount,” he added.
Furtado said that M/s Straight Deal Services, which is yet to pay an amount of Rs 30 lakh to the CCP towards pay parking fee collection during the year 2016-17, has now agreed to make the payment.
The 18 locations, for which the CCP will now tender the pay parking fee collection work are 18th June Road (from Governador Pestana Road to Cunha Riviera Road), Pandurang Pissurlekar Road (from A B Road to M G Road), Elvinna Britto Road, Church Square, lane between Cunha Riviera and Dr R S Road (between parks), Dr R S Road and Cunha Riviera Road (between Church Square and Messias Gomes Road), Messias Gomes Road (between Cunha Riviera and Dr R S Road), T B Cunha Road (between M G Road and 18th June Road), Menezes Braganza Road (between Dr Pandurang Pissurlekar Road and T B Cunha Road), Antao de Noronha Road (between M G Road and T B Cunha Road near Café Bhosle), Dr Govind Vaidya Road (between T B Cunha Road and Cunha Riviera Road), Bhosle Square (between T B Cunha Road and Cunha Riviera Road), General Bernardo Guedes Road, Governador Pestana Road, Caetano de Albuquerque Road, Dr Wolfango de Silva Road, Swami Vivekanand Road and Atmaram Borkar Road.