In a big relief to lakhs of South and West Delhi residents from persistent parking woes, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation is set to open 39 new parking lots in its areas. Contracts for these parking lots have been awarded.
Most of these parking sites are coming up at prominent locations like lajpat Nagar, South Extension, Hauz Khas, Green Park, Yusuf Sarai, Rajouri Garden, New Friends Colony and Vasant Vihar. Officials said the Dwarka sub-city in the Capital, which does not have a single municipality-run parking lot, will also get its first public parking site.
Currently, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation is operating 73 surface parking lots under its jurisdiction. With opening of the new parking sites the total number facility would go up to 112.
According to officials, the areas like Okhla, Badarpur and Dwarka that are largely deprived of proper parking facilities will also be benefited with operation of new parking sites. Officials said a majority of the new parking lots are located in areas which do not have enough space for parking. Most of the new parking lots are located in South and Central zones of South Corporation.
According to the corporation, contracts for two newly constructed underground parkings have also been awarded. These sites will fetch SDMC additional annual revenue of nearly Rs13.68 crore. The site which went for the highest revenue was at New Friends Colony which went for a monthly licence fee of Rs11.57 lakh followed by the Vasant Vihar PVR site which went for Rs11.40 lakh. SDMC was earlier getting revenue of only Rs52 lakh per month from these sites which have now gone up to Rsl.14 crore, registering a jump of over 120 per cent.