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Hyderabad, With the capital city growing at an unprecedented rate ever since the formation of the Telangana State, vehicular traffic increased with private vehicles like cars and two-wheelers at the rate of 700 new vehicles flooding Hyderabad roads each day and parking woes are causing hardships to the citizens.
Municipal Administration Minister K T Ramarao in a recent meeting with MAUD Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar, expressed concern over lack of proper parking places and there was an immediate need to operationalize GO Ms 187 dated July 7, 2017. The Principal Secretary reviewed in detail the parking policy. The GO, among others, emphasizes off-street parking lots with use of private open plots. The individual plot owners shall obtain necessary license from GHMC and it will be a revenue generating activity for such plot owners wherein they collect parking fee at the rates as determined by GHMC. In that sense, it is a win-win situation where in the open plots, especially those near roads/malls/commercial areas and institutions are used for parking lots and thereby bringing in more parking lots and reducing stress on roads and preventing haphazard roadside parking and at the same time will also bring revenue to those plot owners.
Accordingly, the government has decided to invite proposals from owners of the private plots for conversion of their open and vacant lands for off-street parking facilities. GHMC Additional Commissioner (Estates and Housing) G Ramesh has been appointed as designated officer for the purpose. All interested plot owners should get in touch with him at his Mobile number 9949546622 or can be contacted at acestateshousing@gmail.com.
Upon receiving the requests, the GHMC will examine the feasibility of such locations in terms of likely traffic and licenses for the useful eligible sites issued for three or six months or for a year and parking fee will be prescribed which will have to be followed. A license fee will have to be paid by such owners. Kumar said there was an urgent need to create more parking space and the government was in the process of finalizing at least 10 Multi-level car parking in the city. Parking lots will also be developed both by government agencies and private developers on public-private partnership model.
