Aurangabad : Lakhs of efforts were made to fix parking zones in other cities including metropolitan cities of the country. But, success has not come in the hands of the administration. Municipal Administrator and CEO of Aurangabad Smart City, Astik Kumar Pandey has intensified efforts to fix hawkers and parking zones in time keeping in mind the growing expansion of the city. Work is going on fast on this through Smart City. Mumbai Social Environmental Networking Consultant MESN has been appointed to determine the parking and hawkers zone of the city.
MESN CEO Tripti Vaitla said that our organization has been appointed by Aurangabad Smart City as a consultant to determine the parking zone in the main business center of the city. For the last 6 months, our organization is working on the survey conducted by the Municipal Corporation to determine the parking and hawkers zone. He said that many big cities in the country made a lot of efforts to fix parking zones. But, he did not get success. Aurangabad city continues to expand. But, keeping in mind the population and the area of the city, it is easy to implement it by fixing the parking zone here in time.
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In which areas of the city does the parking problem arise? In order to determine the hawkers and parking zones at those places, first survey was done in the city through the students of MP Law College and the municipal employees. In this survey, exercise was done from Samarth Nagar, Nirala Bazar, Gulmandi to Paithan Gate, Gajanan Maharaj Mandir to Pundaliknagar besides TV Center and surrounding area. On the other hand, the students and municipal employees who were appointed for the service were trained by the Urban Research Foundation. After the survey, work is going on on a war footing to decide the parking policy. The Urban Research Foundation questionnaire was prepared for the survey. In particular, to solve the problem of parking and hawkers zone at Cannaught Place located in CIDCO campus of the city, a meeting was held with the businessmen, residents of the campus and the data was prepared after knowing their views. The data collected in the survey has been submitted to the Town Wedding Committee.
The cooperation of the public is necessary to determine the parking zone
Talking to reporters, MESN CEO Tupti Vatla said that without the cooperation of the public, we will not be able to decide the parking policy. This is easy to do in Aurangabad. The problem of parking zones can be solved by discussing with the public. It is difficult to fix parking zones at present in cities like Mumbai, Pune. Because, the expansion of those cities has spread a lot. There are a lot of vehicles there. In such a situation, despite making lakhs of efforts by the administration, today it is proving difficult to fix parking zones in big cities. Tripti Vatla claimed that we were successful in fixing the parking zone soon after discussing with the residents of Aurangabad.