Hyderabad: The Hyderabad city has been growing at an unprecedented rate ever since the formation of the Telangana state and with very focused attention on creation of employment opportunities With its growth comes increase in traffic and number of vehicles including private vehicles especially cars and two wheelers, With around 700 vehicles being added to Hyderabad roads each day, the increasing traffic and parking woes are causing hardships to the people. According to the current limited parking spaces available with the government, although under the procedure, it may take some more time for multi-level parking, due to the lack of proper parking space, resulting in the random and often uncontrolled street parking of vehicles. Not only create chaos and crowd but also become dangerous, as urban land is very rare and expensive, there is a need to optimize parking spaces in urban areas and efforts should be made to use open areas available for parking. Can be used, thereby reducing the location of the road and the lack of pressure.
The Municipal administration Minister K.T Ramarao in a recent meeting with the newly appointed Principal Secretary MAUD Arvind Kumar has expressed concern over lack of proper parking places and that there is an immediate need to operationalize GO Ms 187 dated 7/7/17. The Principal Secretary Mr. Arvind Kumar reviewed in detail the parking policy. The GO among others emphasizes off street parking lots. More specifically provision 5.7 © talks about the development and use of private open plots for the purpose of parking facility.
That the individual plot owner will get the necessary license from the GHMC and it will be the activity of creating revenue for such plot owners, in which they deposit parking fees at the rate prescribed by the GHMC. In that sense, it is a win-win situation where in open plots, those roads / malls / commercial areas and institutions are used for the parking space and thereby bringing more parking and reducing stress on the roads and the unknown Stop the parking on the side of the road as well as those plot owners too will get revenues.The Government has accordingly decided to invite proposals from the owners of the private plots for conversion of their open and vacant lands for off-street parking facilities on the lines as mentioned above. The GHMC, additional commissioner Estates and Housing Mr. G Ramesh, is appointed as the designated officer for this purpose. All interested plot owners should get in touch with him at his Mobile number 9949546622 or can be contacted at acestateshousing@gmail.com . That Upon receiving the requests, the GHMC shall examine the feasibility of such locations in terms of likely traffic and licenses for the useful eligible sites shall be issued on a short term basis ( 3 or 6 months or for a year) and rates of parking fee will be prescribed which will have to be followed. A license fee will have to be paid by such owners.
That, Mr. Kumar said there is an urgent need to create more parking space and Government is in the process of finalizing at least 10 Multi-level car parking in the city. The Parking lots will also be developed by both government agencies and private developers on public private partnership model.
