The Hindu      23.03.2016   

Parking rate hiked in Hauz Khas

Users of the surface-level parking at Hauz Khas market
will have to shell out Rs.100 from Wednesday, with the South Delhi
Municipal Corporation (SDMC) hiking the charges in the hope that the
multi-level facility at the market gets more takers.

The
multi-level lot, where the parking charge is Rs. 20 per hour, has been
under-utilised since it opened last year, as visitors to the market
prefer to park on the road.

“The multi-level parking
lot at E-Block market is not fully utilised. People park on the roads,
which leads to congestion as well,” said SDMC Standing Committee
chairperson Radhey Shyam Sharma.

He was speaking at a
meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuesday, when the civic body also
decided to give 68 of its 146 parking sites to the Delhi Integrated
Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS) on a pilot basis. The 68 sites had
been running free of charge as efforts to get contractors had failed.

These
sites caused the SDMC a loss of Rs.50 crore in this financial year.
Commissioner Puneet Kumar Goel said the sites would be run by DIMTS for a
few months on a pilot basis, before the contract was given.