Patna municipal area to have 30 smart parking facilities soon

07 Mar 2022 CW Team

The Patna civic body鈥檚 30 parking lots will be turned into smart parking facilities post-amendments in the master plan. The proposal had been approved in the Patna Municipal Corporation鈥檚 (PMC) 25th board meeting held on Saturday and it is a part of the smart parking management system.

Mayor Sita Sahu said that the company was selected post the bidding process and the work will commence in the upcoming few days. The smart parking lots will mostly be ready by the end of March and become operational in April.

She said the smart parking system driven by technology will comprise parking guidance, information of parking slot availability in real-time via a mobile application, and online payment facilities.

The smart parking facilities will have boom barriers along with radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensors for the control over the entry and exit of vehicles, automated pay stations, smart ticketing system, and closed-circuit television cameras for collecting the vehicle model and number.

Free parking facilities shall be provided to the residents with the 鈥楽wachhata鈥� app on their mobiles. The special drive for the encouragement of residents for participating in the Swachh Survekshan 2022 through giving feedback on the app. The survey has 1,800 marks for the voice of citizens.

The proposal for adoption of a Japan-based 鈥楳iyawaki technique鈥� used for compressing layers of trees, forest shrubs, and canopies on small land parcels to turn them into tiny forests had further been approved.

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