Four New Multi-Level Car Parking In Bhubaneswar Soon

Bhubaneswar: Here’s some good news for city denizens! The Bhubaneswar Development Authority is planning to develop four new multi-level car parking (MLCPs) at Janata Maidan, Kharvela Nagar, Kalpana Square and Nayapalli.

For an efficient parking management across Odisha capital, the BDA has prepared a detailed plan to develop the MLCPs.

The urban body has proposed 1 acre at Janata Maidan, 1.5 acre at Kharvela Nagar behind Ram Mandir, 0.984 acre at Kalpana Square and 1.116 acre at Nayapalli behind Jupiter Science College near Indradhanu Market for the parking places.

The BDA has already submitted the proposal to General Administration Department for alienation of the land in favour of Housing and Urban Development Department so that it could go ahead in executing the project, official sources said on Friday.

The four proposed MLCPs will have 450 ECS (equivalent car space) per acre of space to allow different number of ECS as per the available size of the land.

ECS is the land required to park a car and is approximately 23 square metre, which includes the space occupied by the vehicle as well as the minimum space needed to move it into and out of the space. While for a car one ECS is 1, for two-wheeler it is 0.2 and for a bicycle 0.1.

Two MLCPs are already being developed at Saheed Nagar and Unit-II (Rajmahal) respectively under the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL), considering the increasing on-street parking jeopardising vehicular movements on major roads.

The proposed four MLCPs will be constructed with double basement, i.e.  upper and lower basement and ground floor parking as well.

Likewise, the first, second and third floors will also have parking for vehicles. This would, ultimately mean that the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of all the four new MLCPs will have commercial space so that at least 60 percent cost towards developing the facilities could be recovered.

The BDA’s request for proposal (RFP) involving the four new MLCPs will adopt the model similar to BSCL’s two ongoing MLCPs.

The four MLCPs will be uniquely designed with beautiful facades, energy efficient structures and environment-friendly buildings. All these will be developed through the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) mode.

Through this form of arrangement, the EPC contractor is made responsible for all the activities from design, procurement, construction, to commissioning and handover of the project to the end-user or owner.

However, the EPC contractor’s design, other construction activities and every proposal has to be approved by a high-level committee of BDA, the sources added.