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Parking at owner`s risk

  • 30/05/2007

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Anil Bhatia, a corporate manager, thought he'd seen the worst of parking problems in Delhi. Then he moved to Mumbai. An account:

I'd just moved to Mumbai. The house had been rented, the car bought, the office desk was all set. I drove to Nariman Point for my first business appointment. I entered the building compound and looked for a parking spot. There wasn't any. I went all the way around and came back. Nothing. I asked the watchmen about parking. "You must be new to Bombay,' one said. I had just got my first lesson of parking in Mumbai. Later, I was to learn more. No respectable building in Mumbai allows parking for visitors. In Mumbai, you are either rich enough to have a chauffeur

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