Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
After having failed to auction off its paid parking lots over the past few months, the Municipal Corporation is bringing about a change in its policy. It has proposed that certain terms and conditions be changed in order to encourage the contractors to take up the lots. A detailed agenda …
To curb the rapidly increasing vehicular population in the city, the Delhi government is mulling a number of measures, including hefty hike in parking fees, introduction of congestion charges for entering in specific areas and improving the public transport system. The government has already taken an in-principle decision to increase …
To curb the rapidly increasing vehicular population in the city, the Delhi Government is mulling a number of measures, including hefty hike in parking fees, introduction of congestion charges for entering specific areas and improving the public transport system. The Government has already taken an in-principle decision to increase parking …
The North Municipal Corporation will build three new multilevel underground parking lots in the Walled City area, which has some of the most congested and busiest markets in the Capital. Church Mission Road will get a parking lot adjacent to the existing facility in Fatehpuri. “The corporation has a 6,000-square-metre …
Improvements panel passes proposal first made in 2010 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Improvements Committee on Thursday passed a contentious proposal to reserve the management of 50 per cent of the civic body’s parking spaces in the city for women self-help groups. According to the proposal, first put forward in 2010, …
Uniform parking rates across Delhi and higher charges for surface parking as against multi-level parking are some of the suggestions that have been cleared “in-principle” by all stakeholders at a meeting convened at the office of the Lieutenant Governor on August 16. At present, civic agencies have no uniform rate …
In one of the safest metros in the country, around 8 pm everyday, Archana Pujari (25), returns from work to her hostel in Kurla (east). Holding her breath, clutching her purse tight and taking long quick strides down a narrow lane, she whispers a prayer as hoots and lewd remarks …
The Chennai Corporation will construct a multi-level parking facility, exclusively for two-wheelers, on NSC Bose Road. Bidding for the Rs. 4-crore facility will begin after the Corporation council passes a resolution next week. The proposed parking lot will be constructed on the western side of Flower Bazaar police station. The …
Aims to discourage parking on roads, use of private vehicles The Capital looks all set to have a new parking policy meant to regulate parking on the roads while placing a restraint on use of public space by private vehicles, thus creating an incentive to use public transport. A series …
The Environmental Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority (EPCA) presentation on a new parking policy for Delhi before the Lieutenant-Governor on Thursday argued that the rate of parking for surface parking should be kept higher than multi-level parking facilities. Other suggestions related to pricing made by Ms. Sunita Narain and Mr. …
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Thursday called a meeting of all stakeholders to draw a consensus on “substantially increasing” parking charges in the city in a bid to reduce congestion in the available parking lots. Chief Secretary P K Tripathi is learnt to have suggested the need for optimising the surface …
New Delhi: The city might be looking at a hike in parking rates soon and change in parking policies as stakeholders have agreed, in principle, that such solutions need to be found for Delhi’s parking problem. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) on …
JAIPUR: With number of vehicles increasing manifold and parking areas becoming a major problem, the state government is planning to draw a parking policy for the city. The policy will be drawn taking cue from the model parking policy of the Union government. In this regard, a meeting chaired by …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the suburban collector to visit a stretch of road from Priyadarshini Circle to Buntara Bhavana Marg in Kurla following complaints of illegal parking. A trustee of the Bunt Sangh Bhavan Trust said the illegally parked trucks and generator vans along the stretch …
In a bid to make city roads free from congestion and safer, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation will be constructing parking lots for commercial vehicles. The corporation plans to construct a parking lot near Zakhira Flyover that would accommodate nearly 500 trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles. These buses are …
According to this latest Basic Road Statistics Report published by the highways ministry, congestion in urban areas has risen due to the disproportionate increase in road length & vehicular growth. Says that growth of cars in the past decade has surpassed two-wheelers. The 'Basic Road Statistics of India' is a …
The State Government, which is finalising its first ever parking policy for urban centres, is contemplating to tax multiple vehicle ownership as part of a host of enforcement and interventions it has planned. As the number of vehicles has witnessed a sharp rise in the last one decade after the …
New Delhi: After proposing residential parking fees, the Delhi government is now looking to curb increasing registration of cars by asking for proof of parking space. The suggestion, which came up in a meeting held in the lieutenant governor’s office last week, follows a a Rajasthan high court order that …
New Delhi: The study commissioned by the urban development ministry has found that some of the reasons for traffic congestion in the city are narrow roads, encroachments, on-street parking, bad road and intersection design and improper signal phasing. Unallocated and unauthorized stopping of buses and unorganized operations of mixed traffic …
In its effort to decongest the city and prohibit parking on footpath and encroachments especially by street vendors, the Corporation will formulate a parking policy by November. The civic body had already entrusted an agency Civitas Urban Solutions with the preparation of a detailed study report focusing on the parking …
