No Parking Area Management Plan for east Delhi people

NEW DELHI: Three years have passed since the parking policy for the national capital was introduced, but the erstwhile East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) region is yet to get its own Parking Area Management Plan (PAMP).

Last year senior officials informed that they were in the process to hire a private agency that will assist the civic body in the survey for PAMP.

The Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Places Rules 2019, required the erstwhile urban local bodies (ULBs) to develop parking plans for areas under their jurisdiction. Last Wednesday, MCD officials said that the delay in the survey was caused by the financial crunch faced by the civic body, and the survey will be completed soon.

B S Vohra, Head of the Residential Welfare Association (RWA) based in East Delhi, said that delay in the survey amounts to a lack of concern towards the growing problem of congestion and lack of parking spaces. He said, “We want the area plans to be made because they [MCD] will at least be able to identify the land available to make parking or to implement other solutions. Even now, the civic body does not have much funds, nor the land or the will to execute the survey,”