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India May Make Parking Space Mandatory for Buying Cars

© AP Photo / Tsering TopgyalVehicles ply on a smog enveloped morning during a two-week experiment to reduce the number of cars to fight pollution in New Delhi, India.
Vehicles ply on a smog enveloped morning during a two-week experiment to reduce the number of cars to fight pollution in New Delhi, India. - Sputnik International
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The Indian government is at its wits end to resolve the gird-lock on its roads because of the huge increase in automobile numbers. It is now planning to make it mandatory for a parking certificate before people are allowed to register their new cars.

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New Delhi (Sputnik) — Buying a vehicle in India may not be easy in the future. The Government is planning to bring a rule that will make it compulsory for all car owners to furnish parking space certificate before their car is registered with the state transport authority.

"In future, no car or vehicle will be registered without an adequate parking space available certificate. I am very keen on this. I am holding discussion with the Surface Transport Minister and also sensitizing the states. We would be moving in that direction," India's Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu told the media.

The new rule may be incorporated into the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2016 to ensure this law is applicable all over the country. Lack of parking space is a cause of concern and often leads to altercations. The situation is more complex in metro cities as the number of vehicles is increasing exponentially without any cumulative increase in the parking areas. India's capital city Delhi has around eight million cars and around 1,200 more are added to the fleet every day.

Although this is a welcome move to decongest the traffic, its implementation is not easy as the registration of vehicles and parking issues are dealt by different bodies and more importantly without having an efficient public transport system it is not justifiable to bar people from buying new vehicles.

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