The Union Power Minister RK Singh and LG Anil Baijal in the presence of BJP Delhi President Adesh Gupta, LOP Delhi Legislative Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri and Mayor Anamika inaugurated Delhi’s first fully-automated tower car parking at Green Park near the Metro Station through video conferencing on Wednesday.
Singh congratulated SDMC for selecting the most feasible new-age parking system to overcome the parking in and around the Green Park. He further expressed confidence that the Tower Parking Project will certainly contain pollution in the area. He offered to provide expertise, consultancy and help of his Ministry in providing boost to the innovative actions in future. While giving detailed description of the projects being executed by his Ministry in and around Delhi, he expressed hope that the projects will go a long way in accelerating the pace of development in the city and providing facilities to the citizens.
Deputy Mayor Subash Bhadana, Chairman Standing Committee Rajdutt Gehlot, Leader of House Narendra Chawala, Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti, DC South Zone G Sudhakar and other senior officials were also present.
Baijal said that this sort of vertical parking is the most appropriate in congested markets and populated colonies as it requires just 1.50 sq metre space to park a car in comparison to 30 sq metre required in conventional parking. He said that all three MCDs should come up with effective parking area management to deal with the parking problem in their jurisdiction. While giving details of the project, he said that the new era steel structured modular designed tower parking is flexible and hence, can be installed at another place. It is eco-friendly, accommodates maximum number of cars in minimum space, allows faster parking and retrieval, has customised parking solutions, comprehensive fire safety, is fully safe and has parking through lifts.
Bharti while welcoming Union Minister referred to the achievements and ongoing major projects of SDMC and said that SDMC has taken major steps to increase the number of parking sites. The tower parking project is another initiative to develop useful property over a limited sized plot. He further informed that the plot area of parking is 878 sq metre. The total cost of the project is Rs 18.20 crore. The height of the towers is 39.50 metres and there are 17 floors in each tower, accommodating 17 cars on each side of the car lift, totaling to 34 cars in each tower. At a time, the tower can accommodate up to 136 cars. Each tower accommodates eight SUVs from the first level to the fourth level and 26 sedans from the fifth level to the 17th. The parking facility is available for 32 SUVs and 104 sedans in total in all the four towers.
He further informed that there is an automated ticket dispenser with boom barrier at entry and exit of the parking and there will be parking charges as per SDMC notified rates — Rs 20 per hour, Rs 100 for 24 hours, Rs 1,200 day pass (monthly) and Rs 2,000 day and night pass (monthly).
He added that the operation, maintenance cost and requirement of manual labor will be lower than the conventional parking. The retrieval time of the vehicle in the tower parking will be 150 seconds.
Anamika stated that the SDMC has been completing its project in spite of limited recourse and a paucity of funds. She said, “Such projects will prove to be beneficial in lessening the pollution levels and fuel consumption. Moreover, parking vehicles in the automated car parking will be easy and convenient than those in conventional parking. It will also suffice the car parking need of the residents.” She added that the possibilities are also being explored to use the facade for generating revenue for using it for advertisement purposes.
