New Delhi: Vehicle owners in the city should gear up to pay a hefty parking fee. Lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna has cleared the proposal for a parking fee hike to contain the chaos arising out of unorganized parking around the city. Once the hike becomes effective, the rates for the first 30 minutes will be Rs 10 followed by Rs 20 for an hour and Rs 50 for three hours of parking. Sources said once details of the LG’s approval reach the government and the civic agencies in charge of executing parking, an action plan will be drawn up. The proposal was based on the recommendations for the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee, EPCA, and the high court-appointed special task force. The hike comes in the wake of a series of meetings between officials, including Delhi chief secretary P K Tripathi, where it was agreed that parking rates need to be increased and all agencies concerned such as MCD, DDA, NDMC and DMRC should have a common rate. A factor contributing to the hike in parking rates is the way citizens have shunned almost all multilevel parking projects undertaken in the city in the past few years.