Chandigarh, July 31
With the new academic session beginning in city colleges, swanky cars parked haphazardly outside the campus are giving the authorities jitters.
An exponential increase in the number of cars being brought to colleges by students, who are barely out of school, and a dearth of space for student cars has aggravated the menace.
At the peak college hours, traffic jams on roads leading to DAV College, Sector 10, or Sector 32, where GGDSD College, St Anne’s Convent School, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Regional Institute of English (RIE) and State Institute of Education are located, are a common sight.“Parking menace outside colleges is on an all time high. With the UT administration failing to tide over the problem, the situation is going to turn from bad to worse,” said a government college official.
Barring certain government colleges, which have provided sufficient space to students for parking their cars, it is strange how certain private colleges have been adding more units and courses without making any parking arrangements. The traffic police, on the other hand, said the problem can be solved by creating more awareness among students about car-pooling.
“The parking crunch has always persisted. We have also written to colleges to make a list of students possessing vehicles. There is not much that the colleges can do with the limited infrastructure. However, the emphases must be on creating awareness among students on car-pooling. The traffic police, at its own level has launched awareness campaigns in colleges and will continue to do so in future,” said Vijay Kumar, DSP (traffic), UT.
Incidentally, despite traffic awareness drives being carried out in various schools and colleges, car-pooling in not being campaigned actively by the authorities of private or government colleges.
With the new academic session beginning in city colleges, swanky cars parked haphazardly outside the campus are giving the authorities jitters.
An exponential increase in the number of cars being brought to colleges by students, who are barely out of school, and a dearth of space for student cars has aggravated the menace.
At the peak college hours, traffic jams on roads leading to DAV College, Sector 10, or Sector 32, where GGDSD College, St Anne’s Convent School, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Regional Institute of English (RIE) and State Institute of Education are located, are a common sight.“Parking menace outside colleges is on an all time high. With the UT administration failing to tide over the problem, the situation is going to turn from bad to worse,” said a government college official.
Barring certain government colleges, which have provided sufficient space to students for parking their cars, it is strange how certain private colleges have been adding more units and courses without making any parking arrangements. The traffic police, on the other hand, said the problem can be solved by creating more awareness among students about car-pooling.
“The parking crunch has always persisted. We have also written to colleges to make a list of students possessing vehicles. There is not much that the colleges can do with the limited infrastructure. However, the emphases must be on creating awareness among students on car-pooling. The traffic police, at its own level has launched awareness campaigns in colleges and will continue to do so in future,” said Vijay Kumar, DSP (traffic), UT.
Incidentally, despite traffic awareness drives being carried out in various schools and colleges, car-pooling in not being campaigned actively by the authorities of private or government colleges.
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