The civic body has the mall authorities to stop the collection of parking fee immediately or else face action as per law.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has issued an order asking different establishments such as commercial buildings, shopping malls, multiplexes, hospitals apartments and housing projects to stop charging parking fees from visitors on the premises immediately.
“It has come to the notice of the BDA that different shopping malls, multiplexes and apartments are imposing parking charges/fees. This is not consistent with the provisions of the BDA (P&BS) regulations as well as the approved building plan and the developers/owners are hereby directed to stop the illegal practice of charging parking fees from the visitors, immediately,” the order stated.
Prasanta Patnaik