Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari and Union Minister of Science and Technology Dr Harshvardhan laid the foundation stone of the proposed multi-level car parking near Shiva Market, Pitampura on Saturday. The parking will have capacity to accommodate 500 cars will be constructed within two years by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC).
NMC Commissioner Madhup Vyas said the construction of the parking and commercial space would be based on latest technology. “There would be 12 floors in the parking cum commercial complex, where two floors would be built in basement and 10 floors would be constructed above the ground level,” he said.
Also, there would be lift lobbies for ease of access for differently abled people and a separate fire tower for making building fire resistant, he added.
Dr Harshvardhan said this is a historic project being constructed on Public Private Partnership model. He also appreciated NMC for taking initiatives despite financial problems.
He further said many other multi-level parking projects are in pipe line.
While Manoj Tiwari said the corporations are going to develop 174 new parking to solve their parking problem in the city. “I hope that this parking project would be completed before its scheduled completion time,” he said.
NMC Mayor Adesh Gupta said that NMC is running 103 parking with capacity to accommodate 31,000 cars.
A senior NMC official said that the corporation has decided to develop 29 surface and17 multi-storey and stack parking facilities. He also said that 13 surface parking would be developed on land allocated by DDA and the remaining 16 on the land owned by the corporation.