DIMAPUR, MARCH 8 (MExN): The Dimapur Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) today extended support to the Nyamo Lotha Road Business Association objecting to parking tax to be levied along the NL Road and to be collected by DMC by deploying 30 staff.
“While it must have been the decision of the Regional Transport Authority to levy parking tax and asked DMC to monitor the system; in the first place, monitoring parking on any road is not the duty of DMC,” a press note from the DCCI stated
It pointed out that the “duty and responsibility of a municipal body is to first look into sanitation and other developmental issues that are still found wanting in many areas as far as the municipal jurisdiction of DMC is concerned.”
Instead of utilizing its manpower in these areas, why is the DMC interested in monitoring parking tax and ready to deploy 30 staff for the tax? The DCCI questioned, and asked the DMC to “stop taking refuge under the Regional Transport Authority just for the interest of collecting parking tax but properly utilize its manpower to perform civic body duties.”
It further reasoned that levying parking tax along NL Road “clearly appears to hamper the business in that area since there are other road stretches too where vehicle parking is messy and traffic is similarly congested.”
It however asked the NLRBA to keep in abeyance its decision to down shutters in the event parking tax is levied since the DCCI will discuss the matter with the appropriate authority.
