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A crying need for parking lots
With the mushrooming of high rise buildings including residential, commercial and multiplexes, its high time the government takes concrete steps to construct its own common parking lots at various points in the city.
With the mushrooming of high rise buildings including residential, commercial and multiplexes, its high time the government takes concrete steps to construct its own common parking lots at various points in the city.
Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Ghaziabad, Noida have developed such parking lots but Allahabad still lags behind in this regard.
If this is not done it would be nearly impossible to have free flow of traffic and the same would remain a pipe dream adding to the growing snarls and chaos on the roads.
As per the master plan multi-storeyed complexes of any nature are required to leave five per cent open space for parking.
With the land prices never looking back it has become a tendency with the builders to utilise as much space as possible and convert it into constructed area.
With the law itself talking about provision of five percent open space in front of the multi-storeyed buildings it would be foolish to expect from the builders to provide more than five percent open space in front as stipulated in the master plan, says a construction engineer.
The need of the hour are multiplexes and high rise buildings without which we cannot survive, says an architect of the city.
This is because all nature of land including agriculture, commercial and residential is heading towards extinction in the city due to burgeoning population and the growing migration of villagers to the city.
Whether it is the central or state government, Allahabad for one reason or the other has remained neglected by them. Basic amenities like roads, drainage, electrification, sewerage, community centres, parks, water supply and proper development of tourist centres like the Sangam have always remained a far cry for the residents of this city.
On the contrary many upcoming cities in the state have already got these facilities. Non availability of space at affordable price has also contributed to illegal building activity.
Such is the growing nature of illegal building activity that the entire kachar belt all along the course of the twin rivers Ganga and Yamuna has been converted into illegal residential colonies on estate land.
The Kachar of Daraganj, Kydganj, Gaughat, Karelabagh , Baluaghat, Nayapurwa, Mehdauri, Rajapur, Beli, Newada, Draupadi Ghat, Dhumanganj, Subedarganj, Transport Nagar and Neemsarai which once provided a perfect landscape of panoramic natural beauty has vanished. It has been replaced by concrete structures brought up by the lower middle class which cannot afford to purchase land in the city.
