local officials along with a visiting team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) visited various areas of the town in pursuance of the directions of the high court for finding a solution to the parking and traffic problem in Nainital. The three-member team from IIT was also accompanied by the committee formed on the directions of the court.
Earlier on Saturday, the team had inspected various sites in the town to check the possibility of facilitating parking space at the locations. The team inspected the flats, Metropol, Sukhatal and the Khurpatal bypass parking apart from inspecting the Narayannagar locality.
The Nainital district magistrate Deependra Chaudhry informed the experts from IIT that during the tourist season the lack of parking space causes exacerbation of the traffic problem due to excessive load of vehicles. In order to find a solution to this problem, the recommendations of the experts have to be presented in the high court before August 25.
On Sunday, the second day of the team’s visit to Nainital, the experts and officials visited various localities including the area near the jail on Haldwani Road, the old parking facility at lakadital, Fansi Gadera, Anda market at Mallital and the Metropol area apart from other sites. The team of experts from the IIT included its civil and transport engineering department’s senior professor Gautam Tiwari, professor Dinesh Mohan and assistant professor KM Jha. After inspecting the various areas on Sunday, the team from IIT left for Delhi. The joint magistrate of Nainital, Vandana Singh, additional superintendent of police Harish Sati, regional transport officer Rajiv Kumar Mehta, additional regional transport officer Gurvinder Singh, Nainital municipality executive officer Rohitash Sharma, deputy director of tourism JC Bora and other officials concerned were also among those who accompanied the team from IIT on their inspections.