The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Parking takes a back seat

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Friday, Jul 23, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Parking takes a back seat

By Our Staff Reporter

<167,2p,1>HYDERABAD, JULY 22. The arrangements and the facilities provided at the counselling centre in Sankethika Vidya Bhavan, Masab Tank, won the appreciation of students and parents who attended the first day's counselling for the open category students of engineering stream on Thursday. However the haphazard parking of vehicles on the premises of the centre turned out to be a sore point with many of them.

As 15 counters were provided in the counselling hall, the process of choosing the branch and the college based on the updated information did not take much time, said a parent.

The spacious air-conditioned hall has adequate seating arrangements for students and accompanying parents while they waited for their turn to make their choice.

Once the choice was made, it took another 15 minutes to pay the fees at the bank counters in the same hall and collect the receipt.

But trouble began once they came out and tried to take out their vehicle, particularly four-wheelers.

A Bank of India officer Narayana who accompanied his nephew, V. Satya Pavan Prasad, who had secured 93rd rank, was at his wits end trying to retrieve his car from the midst of haphazardly parked vehicles. His request to the traffic police and special police force posted near the Technology Bhavan, for orderly parking within the premises of the building did not evoke any positive response. "We came to the centre at 9.15 a.m and came out of the counselling hall by 10.15 a.m. But for the last one hour I am here unable to take out my car," he said and added that steps should have been taken to ensure orderly parking. He could finally leave the premises when the driver of a vehicle blocking his car cleared the way.

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