The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
about the lack of progress in implementing parking reforms in Delhi and the NCR. These reforms are seen as crucial to reducing air pollution, particularly from private vehicles. It has issued a notice in this regard dated April 24, 2024. Transport contributes significantly to air pollution in NCR, especially during …
This report takes stock of scientific findings to date regarding the distributional effects of policies discouraging car use in urban areas. These policies include cordon tolls, distance-based charges, fuel taxes, parking measures and public transport subsidies. The report describes the mechanisms responsible for the distributional effects of these policies and …
The Transport Department of Delhi vide its notification dated 28 June 2022, has published the Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Places ( Amendment) Rules, 2022. The Amendment is brought under rule 16 which deals with towing chargers in which the following second proviso has been inserted: Provided that the …
The Transport Department of Delhi vide its notification dated 17th March 2022, has published the Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Places ( Draft Amendment) Rules, 2022 to further amend the Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Places Rules, 2019. The Amendment is brought under rule 16 which deals with …
This sourcebook module aims to assist policy makers in developing Asian countries, particularly those involved at the urban level, move towards making the urban freight sector more sustainable. The sourcebook module lays out a set of core actions that aim to serve as a basis of action for policymakers. Additionally, …
The government has notified a draft parking policy aimed at discouraging on-street and footpath parking here. However, this has now been tweaked to allow free parking in residential areas. The government had first come out with the draft parking policy in June last with a clause stating that “parking may …
NEW DELHI: With over 1 crore registered vehicles, finding a legitimate parking slot in Delhi is a daunting task. To ease citizens’ woes, the corporations have now proposed to reserve space for women and differently abled citizens. North corporation has already cleared the changes that are now being incorporated in …
SDMC plans to use hike in existing one-time parking charges to build modern parking lots “The focus needs to be on reducing demand and not providing an unlimited supply of parking spaces which is being done globally through variable pricing linked to actual usage,” Anumita Roychowdhury of the Centre for …
The civic bodies will also be building a dedicated space for transit parking, which will be a halt and go zone for commercial vehicles and application-based car service, starting from markets in Lajpat Nagar and Greater Kailash. The corporations will charge three times more for surface parking than at multi-level …
NEW DELHI: In a couple of months, you may have to pay for parking your car outside your house, besides shelling out more for the facility across the capital. Delhiites, however, will have a limited say on how much they will pay for parking in the residential areas and also …
NEW DELHI: Parking fees in Delhi-NCR are set to quadruple while Metro fares during off-peak hours may be slashed temporarily as part of a series of measures recommended by Supreme Court mandated green body EPCA to tackle the pollution crisis. The Environment Pollution - Prevention and Control Authority said the …
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said it was yet to take a decision on slashing fares temporarily, while municipal bodies argued their standing committees will have to clear the decision on enhancing parking fees first. The EPCA’s directions to “immediately” slash metro fares and hike parking fees today put …
For daily commuters in Delhi, what has been the experience is now being borne by hard statistics. Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) new assessment of travel time and traffic speed in Delhi shows the city is in a grip of a worsening congestion and pollution crisis. A simple exercise …
The Delhi government has come out with a draft parking policy which proposes checks on multiple ownership and roadside parking of vehicles through taxes and charges, in view of better management of limited parking space available in the city. The comprehensive draft policy, will be vetted after getting public feedback …
This policy guidance is a primer that lays bare the essential elements of parking policy that can help to decongest as well as reduce pollution and fuel guzzling in cities. This document is based on emerging principles from global experiences and practices, literature review and field assessment of local initiatives …
For a city that boasts of a priceless 6% of road space, parking has always been a nightmare in Kolkata. Chaotic traffic, unscientific space management, cunning parking attendants -everyone who drives in this city knows that finding parking space, especially during office hours, is a matter of sheer luck and …
PUNE: Doing their bit to show they care for the environment forms a major part of a few corporators' busy schedule since they believe in leading by example. In fact, corporators Vaishali Bankar and Meenal Saravade regularly carpool on their commute to work. Like the corporators, Puneites are increasingly seeing …
Fans of Connaught Place are loving its resurgent new avatar, with many swanky new restaurants giving it some of its old mojo back. But the revival of CP and its nightlife has brought with it more visitors - and more cars - than ever before, leading to routine parking snarls …
A high-powered committee on 'Decongestion of Traffic in Delhi' constituted by Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu has recommended a better use of existing road space, multi-model integration, better traffic management, paradigm shift from car-centric to people-centric planning for more use of public transport and saying 'no' to more …
Noida: The Gurudwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha located at Sector 18 is all set to have its own parking space. Built over 2200 square meters, the area will have a 200-vehicle, free parking space ready for use by June 5. Even as the Noida Authority's multi-level parking facility in the …
