Meena Bazar and car parking
I'm writing about the news item published in your paper quoting the Meena Bazaar authorities as paying fine to the traffic police department for illegal parking of cars by customers on the footpath in front of the Meena Bazaar. The news item appears to have supported the arrangement.
My question: is it an act that could be supported? If tomorrow hawkers occupy any footpath to start any makeshift shop and are willing to pay the fine, would the DMP allow this? Then how could the DMP allow the Meena Bazaar to use the road as parking lot? I was surprised to see that some customers asked for this type of privilege from superstores for car parking on footpath. What an unreasonable idea!
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