10-03-22 Daily-Gujarat-GPSC Current Affairs

The citys civic body has set up a Traffic and Parking Cell to implement the new parking policy.

The first meeting of the cell was held recently in which various challenges in the implementation of the policy and issues relating to traffic and parking were discussed. During the meeting, various decisions were made including the creation of sub-committees to implement the policy. The civic body will also formulate bylaws of the policy. The civic body will shortly upload a list of parking spots in the city on its official web portal. After the list is declared, citizens who park their vehicles elsewhere will be fined by traffic Police. It was also decided to launch a drive to keep footpaths and roads encroachment-free.

Traffic police will seize any unclaimed vehicles on roadsides. Apart from that, it was decided that the cell will identify more spots for parking vehicles and declare them.

The draft parking policy was okayed by the AMC and was sent to the for approval.

The state government approved the policy and it was implemented from November 1, 2021.