chandigarh the tall claims of the traffic police authorities about providing safe parking lots and hasslefree roads to city residents are falling flat as prominent markets have been witnessing total chaos traffic jams and unregulated parking a few days before diwali the main problem areas are in manimajra sector 22 sector 19 sector 35 and sector 27 in manimajra a police gypsy which was rushing for an emergency was stuck in traffic on wednesday commuters proceeding towards fun republic from the shivalik garden faced a lot of inconvenience when traffic came to a halt on both the sides nivesh goyal a trader in the manimajra market said there is zero presence of police personnel in the manimajra market despite twice the number of visitors now because of diwali similarly the sector 22 and sector 19 markets were also jampacked with chaotic parking on the roads and occupants of vehicles quarrelling with each other for parking space sources in the traffic police lines sector 29 said over a dozen complaints were received about wrong parking in the market parking lots suresh singla a member of the market welfare committee sector 22 said though separate additional parking spaces were earmarked opposite the civil dispensary the arrangements were grossly inadequate in view of the rush of visitors which is increasing with each passing day the situation will only worsen until diwali a senior traffic police official said numerous efforts are being made to control parking problems and provide smooth flow of traffic in the city over 310 traffic police personnel including women cops and home guard volunteers are on duty in the city