KOLKATA: Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) has initiated the process to engage agencies to put up parking and no-parking sign boards across Sector V and to supply wheel clamps to the electronic complex police station to lock cars found parked illegally. The authorities has a target to complete putting up the sign boards by next month before starting to collect parking fees in Sector V.
The authorities have already identified 14 streets divided in four zones across Sector V as fee car-parking areas and are in the process of engaging agencies for operating the lots for a year. The contract may be renewed for five years as per the authority’s discretion. The four fee-parking zones are near Swasthya Bhavan, near Technopolis, the Webel area and near Manikanchan.
The parking zones will operate from 7am to midnight. Display boards, which will have parking fee rate charts, NDITA website address, details of the parking agencies and the 24-hour helpline, will be put up at convenient locations across Sector V.
According to officials, parking agents will have to ensure that vehicles are parked strictly on the allotted space — parallel to the kerb line of the pavement — and no vehicle will be allowed to be parked on the pavement under any circumstances.
TOI had earlier reported that unauthorised parking agents were illegally fleecing motorists in Sector V. NDITA and Bidhannagar police held a meeting in which it was decided that fresh fee-parking zones will be identified and agencies will be engaged to operate the parking zones in a systematic manner.