Two multi-level car parking lots in Thiruvananthapuram become fully operational

Two multi-level car parking tons (MLCPs) astatine Putharikkandam maidan and astatine Medical College, which were formally inaugurated earlier the section assemblage elections, person go afloat operational this week. Each of the parking tons tin accommodate 200 cars, according to officials of the Smart City Thiruvananthapuram Limited. 

“Although these were inaugurated earlier, they person begun operating successful afloat plaything lone now. Earlier besides cars could beryllium parked astatine immoderate of the area, but present we person appointed an relation to tally it properly. People are lone opening to usage it. We would beryllium putting up show boards adjacent the Central Railway Station for the MLCP astatine Putharikkandam arsenic it would beryllium utile for those who are travelling distant from the metropolis for a longer period,” said a Smart City official. 

Charges

Similar charges person been fixed for some the MLCPs with ₹30 to beryllium paid for 1 hr parking and ₹150 for 24 hours. The opening of the MLCPs would travel arsenic a alleviation for those frequenting East Fort and Thampanoor arsenic good arsenic the Medical College junction area, wherever parking spots are hard to find connected astir days. 

The MLCP astatine Putharikkandam maidan was constructed astatine a outgo of astir ₹16 crore portion the 1 adjacent Medical College junction was completed astatine ₹20 crore. At Putharikkandam, immoderate existing instauration piles saved connected the archetypal outgo for the Corporation. The Putharikkandam MLCP has a raised instauration owed to water-logging issues successful the area. 

Initially, the MLCPs were planned nether the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) 1.0 scheme. With the execution play of projects nether AMRUT 1.0 coming to an extremity successful 2023, the 2 MLCP projects were transferred to the Smart City strategy arsenic these projects could not beryllium accommodated nether AMRUT 2.0.

The AMRUT 1.0 strategy had a constituent for ‘improvement successful municipality transport facilities’, nether which the MLCPs were planned. However, the AMRUT 2.0, which focusses much connected drinking h2o related issues, does not person specified a component