Chandigarh: The UT administration has decided to give a week’s time to the municipal corporation (MC) to comply with its directives on installation of EV charging stations in paid parking lots.
The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by UT administrator Banwarilal Purohit here on Wednesday. It was also decided that Crest will prepare and submit a MoU to be signed with the MC for operationalisation of the charging stations within a week.
Crest has sought locations in 44 MC parking lots for charging stations. Softening of the administration’s stance will now allow the MC to form a panel of stakeholders to decide on suitable location of the charging stations. Mayor Anup Gupta said, “We will submit a report of the panel after the study of locations. The panel will comprise councillors, representatives of market committees and councillor concerned in whose ward the parking is located. We have never said that MC is not ready to give locations. Our only contention was that all stakeholders should be taken on board.”
For more than three months, the UT and the MC have been locked in a deadlock over installation of the charging stations.
