Chennai: Parking a car at Pondy Bazaar and a few other areas in the city often has one paying both the Chennai corporation's parking meter rates and also those fixed by staff hired on contract on the premises. A top official from the corporation has now assured action against such irregularities. The civic body’s rate is Rs 5 an hour and another Rs 5 for every additional hour. The drivers must collect a ticket, printed with the car’s number and display it on the dashboard of their vehicles after parking it. But contract workers insist that the car owners buy 10-rupee tickets against the fixed charge of Rs 5 per hour. The tickets do not have any car number printed on them and the staff...
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