Yellow painted lines on the ground would soon demarcate the parking zones from the tow away zones in the South Extension Part-I market in South Delhi.
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation is now working on a plan to identify and clearly delineate the parking zones by painting them in distinct yellow.
Chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed Environmental Protection (Prevention and Control) Authority Bhure Lal recently told The Hindu that in order to clamp down on the parking mafia in the city which takes only limited areas from the authorities but parks cars even in areas not allotted to it, the civic bodies have been told to use this method of painting parking areas.
“The South Extension Part-I market would be the first to have such a system,” he had stated.
Chairman of the Central Zone of South Delhi Municipal Corporation Virender Kasana said in a meeting held on September 21, the Deputy Commissioner Sushil Singh had spelt out a slew of measures which the department intends to take to improve the parking scenario.
“It was mentioned in the meeting that yellow lines would be painted on the ground to identify the parking area and the Delhi Traffic Police would be empowered to tow away the vehicles parked outside it,” he said.
Apart from this, Mr. Kasana said signboards would also be installed at the sites giving out the name of the parking licence holder, his phone number, licence number, area of parking in square metres, parking charges and phone number of the area police station.
“As per the new plan, the parking licencees would also be required to keep a complaint register and would have to give out the number and e-mail address of the authority concerned where people would be able to lodge their complaints, if any,” he said.
Noting that the plan also takes into account the security of the vehicles, Mr. Kasana said the parking attendants would now be required to wear uniforms and this would check the theft of cars from the parking lots.
Former Delhi Development Authority member and now the lone Congress chairman in the three DMCs, Mr. Kasana insists that there is an urgent need to use the Escrow Fund which was created for collecting a one-time charge from house owners for development of parking to improve the situation.
“Parking is the biggest concern with all the people. We should work to increase it. An efficient parking reduces wastage of fuel and time and ensure that business of markets also does not suffer. We would be working towards optimal use of spaces for parking since poorly constructed pavements are not used by pedestrians and end up being encroached upon.”
