The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to implement new parking guidelines in the city from April 1. The tender process for the parking project is expected to be completed by February 20.
Under the new rules, a person will not have to pay fee again for parking his vehicle in a particular area. He can pay only once at the particular package area.
For example, if a person has paid parking fee at Vani Vihar Square and later he is parking his vehicle at Rupali Square, he need not pay additional fee.
However, the rule for the duration of parking remains unchanged. As per the existing rules, the BMC has fixed Rs 5 for four hours and Rs 10 for more than four hours for two-wheelers. In case of four-wheelers, the fee is Rs 20 for two hours and Rs 40 for four hours.
BMC sources said 64 parking places have been divided into five packages.
The areas from Sishu Bhawan Square to Shriya Square, from Shriya Square to Vani Vihar Square, from Unit-1 market to Kalpana Square and from SUM Hospital Square to Nayapalli Durga Pandap via Khandagiri have been included under the new parking system.
While the package-1 covers the area from Sishu Bhawan Square to Shriya Square having 14 parking places, a total of 13 parking places situated between Shriya Square and Vani Vihar Square are included under the package-2.
The package-3 covers 18 places from Unit-1 market, Exhibition Ground, Kar Clinic, Big Bazaar to the parking places in Sachivalaya Marg, Janpath to Sachivalaya Marg and Unit-4 area.
In the package-4, there are 12 parking places covering the areas from SUM Hospital, Khandagiri, Fire Station, Hotel Crown, from Jayadev Vihar to Power House Square, AMRI Hospital and Madhusudan Park.
The package-5 covers seven parking places in the Chandrasekharpur area.
The BMC has fixed Rs 79,70,135 as tender price for package-1, Rs 82,82,310 for package-2, Rs 2,47,84,335 for package-3, Rs 58,39,028 for package-4 and Rs 25,86,981 for package-5. The new guidelines and parking system would be implemented with an aim to earn around Rs 5 crore annually from these five packages, sources said.