The confusion over parking anywhere on Mahatma Gandhi Road, popularly known as Main Road, has finally settled down with the civic body officials and traffic police finally appearing contented with identifying parking lots with four colour codes. Now anyone parking a vehicle at defined parking spaces on Main Road from Thursday will be charged according to defined Green, Orange and Yellow colour zones. At the same time, Red zones have been defined as no parking zone and vehicles parked in those areas would be towed away.According to new arrangements, parking in Orange zone will be charged at Rs40 for cars per hour and Rs10 for bikes. “Parking areas on stretches from Sarjana Chowk to Daily Market, Anjuman Plaza to Raymond Showroom via Church Complex and Rospa Tower, and from Ranchi Club to Over bridge will wear Orange colour. Similarly, stretches between Raymond Showroom to Ranchi Club and Daily Market to Anjuman Plaza have been marked as Red zones with no parking anywhere in the area due to congestion,” said Traffic SP Sanjay Ranjan Singh on Thursday.
A company from Bengaluru has been given charge of the implementation of new system, and the company has already deployed around four dozen of its workers with hand-held device to issue parking slip. The entire information related to number of parking in each area and amount would keep on updating in Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) server.
Singh said that a meeting of traffic personnel was held with Municipal Commissioner Prashant Kumar on Thursday regarding same, where SSP Kuldeep Dwivedi, Deputy SP (City) and other police personnel were also present. “library Road, Daily Market Police Station and Daily Market Taxi Stand areas have been identified as Green Zone where parking a car for three hours would cost Rs 20 and a bike for similar period would cost Rs10. left lane from Albert Ekka Chowk to Sarjana Chowk has been identified as Yellow Zone. Here parking cost stands at Rs30 for a car for every two hour and Rs10 for bike for similar period,” said Singh.