Officials Blame Process Of Penalizing, Lax Implementation For Ban’s Failure.

New Delhi: A new multi-level automated parking lot might reduce parking woes in Connaught Place considerably. It will have a parking space for 2,000-2,500 vehicles and will come up at Baba Kharak Singh (BKS) Marg. It will be right under Coffee Home, facing NDMC’s soon-to-be started multi-level parking, which will have a capacity of 1,804.

New Delhi: Keen to ensure that there is no further delay in construction of a multilevel parking in Khan Market, the Delhi high court has asked the authorities to quickly finalize a layout plan. HC asked New Delhi Municipal Council and the urban development ministry officials to meet on April 21 and finalize
the layout. In case it requires more meetings, HC said, the agencies must continue to meet till the time a workable layout is drawn up.

Court Refuses To Deal With Regulation Of Vendors In Sarojini Nagar, Khan Market. New Delhi Municipal Council’s (NDMC) attempt to get the Supreme Court’s stamp of approval on its ambitious plan to decongest two most popular shopping stops — common man’s Sarojini Nagar and the upwardly mobile’s Khan Market — ended with the civic body facing tough questions.

Ranchi, Jan. 29: Get prepared to pay an extra buck for quenching your thirst with running tap water.. The drinking water and sanitation department has asked the urban development department to revise water supply taxes — recommending a 40 per cent hike — to recover cost of maintenance of pipelines and other operations. Sources said that the water taxes were last revised in 2006.

Kaithal: Despite the SC directions issued following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the solid waste management project had been hanging fire for the past one decade. The SC had directed the state government to set up plants in 12 towns, including Kaithal, to treat “solid waste”. The apathy and prevailing red tapism in various government offices had delayed this project, which could provide much relief to the public as residents of dozens of residential colonies have to live in sub-human conditions due to scattered garbage and prevailing polluted atmosphere.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's proposal to hike parking charges as a step towards further reform. Stating that the city needs high parking charges to control traffic chaos and dampen parking demand and car usage and that the higher revenue from increased parking charges should be reinvested to improve public transport, CSE noted that parking crisis and traffic congestion are the result of growing dependence on cars and availability of cheap and free parking.

The first fully automated, multi-level car parking facility, which has a capacity for 824 cars, was inaugurated on Thursday in Sarojini Nagar market.
The facility was inaugurated by Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Sports Minister and area MP Ajay Maken.

Developed at a cost of Rs 80 crore, the ‘South Square’ parking complex has been developed under public-private partnership between New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and real estate developer DLF Limited.

Delhi is all set to get its first fully automatic multi-level car parking lot, with Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath slated to inaugurate the facility at Sarojini Nagar Market on Thursday. Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit will be present at the opening.
Developed by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) under public-private partnership with real estate developers DLF Limited for a concession period of 30 years, parking arrangements will be made through “zero human intervention” after the driver leaves his car at the basement level.

Agartala, Nov. 2: The Union department of disaster management has raised the hackles of the Tripura government by warning about possible earthquakes and their likely disastrous effects on the state.
What has become a source of major concern is that North Tripura and Dhalai districts have been identified as “most vulnerable” to earthquakes.