Brihanmumbai Municipal Corp. to launch e-Parking system

MUMBAI, INDIA: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon launch a web-based parking system that will offer pay-and-park facilities to car owners with computerised parking receipts.

Over a year ago, the BMC had floated a tender on a transparent online system to tighten security and check private contractors from levying wanton parking charges.

The BMC has appointed a contractor to implement the scheme. The contractor will install software, provide hand-held devices for attendants at parking lots and connect the feed from all the 92 spots to the central server on the BMC's website.

The hand-held devices will generate e-Receipts, and the software will allow motorists to view online the number of free and occupied slots as and when cars enter and exit the parking lot, claims BMC.

Car owners with preloaded cards will be exempted from paying cash on a daily basis. The system will be first implemented in BMC's pay-and-park facilities.

Plans to bring similar facilities, at malls, multiplexes, hospitals and other places is yet to be fructified.