Parking space first, registration later. Yes, it is the future if the Centre accepts changes suggested in the Sunder Committee report on the review of the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Chapter three of the report has several suggestions regarding the “Registration of Motor Vehicles”. The committee has proposed to make it mandatory for every car owner to furnish proof of parking space at the regional transport office (RTO), failing which his/her car will not be registered.
The Maharashtra government, already beset with problems of parking space in all major cities (especially Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai) is all for such a change. Transport department officials from all the states recently met in Delhi to discuss the committee’s report with representatives from the Union ministry of road transport and highways. VN More, Maharashtra transport commissioner, said the government wants this clause to be incorporated in the motor vehicles act. More, who was at the meeting in New Delhi, said this would go a long way in solving the city’s parking problem. “Roads are meant for the movement of cars and not for illegally parking cars,” More said. “Cars parked illegally on roads make it difficult for other cars to move freely. In a space-starved city like Mumbai, we should make optimum use of roads.” Sikkim has already implemented such a policy and Karnataka is mulling to do it. Once the Centre accepts the changes, all the states will have to follow the mandatory parking space policy.
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