Nod to policies for streamlining parking, regulation of bus terminals

With a view to streamlining parking of private vehicles in city limits and of buses around bus terminals, the State Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation (Construction, Maintenance and Operation of Parking Spaces) Rules - 2025 and the UP Stage Carriage Bus Terminal, Contract Carriage and All India Tourist Bus Park (Establishment and Regulation) Policy, 2025.

- HT Correspondent

LUCKNOW:

The new parking policy is aimed at establishing modern parking facilities in urban local bodies. In the first phase, the policy will be implemented in 17 municipal corporations across the state. "The parking space in municipal corporations will be given on private-public-partnership (PPP) mode," said urban development minister AK Sharma at press conference held to brief reporters about the Cabinet decisions.

Among riders for starting parking space include approach road of more than 12-mts width, separate parking for divyangjan, designated space for charging facility for EVs, boom barriers and digital signals etc. The 17 municipal corporations where the new parking policy will be implemented include Lucknow, Kanpur, Ayodhya, Aligarh, Agra, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj, Firozabad, Bareilly, Mathura, Meerut, Moradabad, Varanasi, Shahjahanpur and Saharanpur.

No one will be allowed to park their vehicles in a manner that disrupts traffic such as on footpath, roadside and other public space. "For starting a parking facility, a licence will be issued by Nagar Nigam against a fee. An individual can apply for tender on government land or shall apply as individual on their own land too for starting a parking facility. The parking contractor will also get vehicles parked in an unauthorised manner towed," the minister said.