Abstract
India is witnessing a massive growth in motor vehicles ownership with the increase of population and urbanization. Such increased vehicle population leads to various issues such as increase in pollution, traffic jam, congestion, accidents, safety, etc. One of the most crucial problems being faced by India in both urban and rural regions is relating to parking. Urban centres of the country are becoming highly dense resulting into inefficient parking management which is further driven by lack of synchronization between parking policies, its implementation and enforcement strategies. India lacks all-inclusive nationwide policy and legislation that covers all aspects about parking. The National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP) of India created by the Ministry of Urban Development in 2006 has a section about parking in India. The policy states that state governments should make suitable measures relating to parking infrastructure. So, accordingly urban local bodies have created parking policies for respective cities but enforcement of the same is responsibility of other departments such as traffic police leading to non-achievement of desired policy outcomes. This paper focuses on how single administrative authority can work more efficiently in developing parking policies along with its enforcements for Indian cities rather having multiple administrative bodies dealing on the same subject matter. In this paper, it has been identified that traffic police face challenges and limitations to effectively enforce current directives as formed in parking policies. This issue is further aggravated due to lack of enforcement relating knowledge with such policy makers.
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