Rs 10 parking fee dispute ends in Rs 22 lakh directions for hospital, contractor

The Himachal Pradesh District Consumer Commission has directed the authorities at Dr RPGMC Tanda hospital and the parking contractor to pay significant amounts in a dispute over parking charges. The complainant, an advocate visiting his relative, was allegedly overcharged Rs 10 for parking his car in the hospital's authorised parking contractor's lot.

The commission ordered the payment of Rs 20 lakh to the District Red Cross Society for poor patients, Rs 2 lakh to the parking contractor for road-safety awareness, and Rs 15,000 to the complainant for mental harassment. The commission also emphasized that any future parking fee increases must undergo a thorough cost, demand, usage, capacity, and user category study, with approval from the appropriate government.

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