Transport Bhawan first government building to feature multi-level car parking

Transport Bhawan on Parliament Street in New Delhi will be the first government building to have an automated multi-level car parking facility in its premises. The facility will comprise ground plus seven floors. Spread over an area of 314 square metres and with a height of 22 metres, it will house 112 cars with a retrieving time of 120 seconds.

Nitin Gadkari, union minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping and Venkaiah Naidu, union minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs laid the foundation stone for the facility at Transport Bhawan yesterday.

Speaking on the occasion, Venkaiah Naidu said that when the parking lot comes up in nine months from now, it will play a major role in decongesting the area and will be an example for other ministries to follow suit. He further stressed that for timely initiation and completion of projects it is very necessary that all concerned agencies should come together, discuss and sort out issues so that “Ease of Approval” can be brought in. 

Also commenting on the occasion, Nitin Gadkari said that the automated parking lot will come as a big relief not only to the staff of Transport Bhawan but also all visitors to the building. He said that the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is already working on several plans to decongest Delhi-NCR. 

The automated parking lot project is being undertaken by National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL), a fuly owned company of MoRTH. The facility is being built by a yet to be named Swiss company.