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 …
This year, the South municipal agency will give its residents freedom from harassment meted out by parking attendants. The agency has decided to make the handheld electronic devices to issue parking tickets mandatory in its jurisdiction. The devices are connected to the agency’s central server and to Delhi Police server. …
South Corpn Plans To Register Contractors, Use Handheld Devices For Slips New Delhi: South Delhi Municipal Corporation has drafted a new policy to check the parking mafia. The policy, which is likely to come into effect from January 2013, will help the civic agency streamline the management of its parking …
LUCKNOW: If plans of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) work out, visitors to some city areas will be able to park their vehicles free in the multi-level parking lots for a certain time. The municipal top brass is assessing possibilities of making parking free for the first hour after which …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
JAIPUR: To curb parking menace in the city, the civic bodies have geared up to develop parking lots in the city. Acting on the directions of the empowered committee that was constituted to develop Pink City as a world-class city, the civic bodies have identified areas to develop in the …
New Delhi: After the transport department sought views on a hike in parking rates, most people seemed to agree that a “proper” parking policy was needed. And while many have suggested various ways of implementing the hike, an overwhelming majority has apparently shot down the special task force’s (STF) recommendation …
In order to tune into a sustainable transport in the City, the State government should take some bold steps like banning free parking, said Prof T G Sitharam, Chairman, Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), IISc. Speaking at a seminar on “Green Economy: The way forward for …
As the merchants in the city came out against the decision to restrict parking along main roads in the city, the Corporation authorities and the police are trying to put the blame back on commercial establishments for the present status of traffic obstructions being caused due to parking. Ensuring that …
A draft policy for parking finalised by the Environment Protection and Control Authority (EPCA) headed by Bhure Lal has proposed 10 time-hike in the parking rates depending on the locations of the colony and market areas in the national capital. The draft policy was discussed at a high-level meeting chaired …
The state-of-the-art facility can accommodate more than 1,400 cars By asking you to ‘Let your car wait in style', Capital Point, the city's newest automated multi-level car park near Connaught Place, seems to be all about providing comfort for your car. Flanked by Hanuman Mandir and Gurdwara Bangla Sahib on …
Chandigarh: With the Municipal Corporation unable to find takers, for four paid parking lots, over the past six months, the civic body has been suffering losses worth lakhs every month. The parking lots were auctioned in January this year. With the highest bid being less than what the parking lots …
KOLKATA, 30 MAY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has increased its earnings from car parking by Rs 82 lakh in 2011-12. A senior civic official said revenue increased following a series of drives against illegal car parking and the racket that operates it. The KMC had earned Rs 6.40 crore …
No parking on arterial roads, but only at designated spots Soon, parking vehicles on the arterial roads of the City’s central business district (CBD) may be a costly affair. By restricting the parking to designated locations and fixing fees for the same, the government proposes to decongest the major thoroughfares, …
