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Public Private Partnership Model For Underground Car Parking System, Kolkata, West Bengal (Urban Governance - CIPS)

The document summarizes a public-private partnership in Kolkata, India to develop an underground parking system. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation partnered with Simplex Project Pvt. Ltd. to build two levels underground - an upper level for commercial space and a lower level for parking. The project provided 250 parking spaces and 200 shops. It generated additional income for the municipality and reduced traffic congestion and parking issues in the area.

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Public Private Partnership Model For Underground Car Parking System, Kolkata, West Bengal (Urban Governance - CIPS)

The document summarizes a public-private partnership in Kolkata, India to develop an underground parking system. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation partnered with Simplex Project Pvt. Ltd. to build two levels underground - an upper level for commercial space and a lower level for parking. The project provided 250 parking spaces and 200 shops. It generated additional income for the municipality and reduced traffic congestion and parking issues in the area.

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Centre for Innovations in Public Systems - Urban Governance

Public Private Partnership Model for Underground Car Parking System, Kolkata, West
Bengal

The Public Private Partnership Model For Underground Car parking project
Background & was conceptualized as a two?part BOOT (Build, Own, Operate and Transfer)
Summary: project with two concession periods. Underground and the overland portion of
Commercial Complex were converted into a pedestrian plaza.

Name of
Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Simplex Project Pvt. Ltd.
Partnering Agencies:

Period of
2007
Implementation:

Area of
Kolkata, West Bengal
Operation:

To provide multi-level underground car parking system at Lindsay


Objective(s): Street, Kolkata on BOOT (Build, Own, Operate and Transfer) basis.
To provide commercial complex at same place.

There are two levels of basement in the system


Upper basement (Level 1) has been utilized for commercial
development.
Lower basement (Level 2) was exclusively used as a car parking area.
This was a double?concession BOOT project.

Commercial Complex (Level 1):


Methodology: Kolkata Municipal Corporation granted permission to SimplexProject Pvt. Ltd
to construct and lease out the commercial blocks on a long-term basis.
Simplex pays the lease rent as well as basic rent.

Parking System (level 2):


The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and SimplexProject Pvt ltdentered into a
BOOT (Build, Own, Operate and Transfer) agreement for 20 years for the
parking system.

Beneficiaries /
Car owners and Pedestrians
Target Group:

Haphazard and unruly parking of Vehicles


Status Before Serious traffic jams
Implementation: Hassle among people during Parking
Problems for the pedestrians

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Level-1: Market complex with 200 shops on lease


Level-2: 250 parking slots in the underground parking system
The overland portion was converted into a pedestrian plaza.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has prohibited 'on-street parking' in
the 'zone of influence' around the system and within a radius of 100
meters.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation collects basic


Cost Reduction: rent from each of the shop owners at Rs. 25 per
sqm per quarter as extra income with no investment.

Status After Database of every car is maintained by storing the


Implementation: Corruption
car number and license number which further used
Reduction:
daily to check revenue generation.

250 cars can park at a time in the


underground parking system.
No danger of theft or possessions from car.
Service No danger of the car being hit by a driver or
Improvement: other party like banging into columns, walls
or other cars
No danger of damage to people in the event
of a fire, act of nature, etc.

Underground development can be an alternative where ground level


space is scarce, especially in mega cities.
Difficulties /
PPP models of partnership in infrastructure development form the most
Lessons Learnt:
sustainable approach for a city government in terms of finance and in
terms of engineering staff.

Current Status: Project Completed and in operation

For Commercial lot-


4000 sqm space used to construct 200
commercial blocks.
Physical
Infrastructure: For Parking lot-
4000 sqm underground level
Shuttle dolly system and palette shifting
Resource
system for cars
Requirements:
4 trained Engineers and few ground staff
Human Resource:
officers.

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition


Technology/IT: Software for each entry of vehicle is marked
with a Unique Identity Number

Approximate
Cost of Rs. 36 crores approx.
Implementation:

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Performance
Accommodate 250 cars at a time.
Indicators:

Md. Sahidul Islam, IAS,


Joint Municipal Commissioner,
Kolkata Municipal Corporation,
S.N. Banerjee Road,
Project Champion(s):
Kolkata 700013, West Bengal
Ph: 033-22447432
Fax: 033 22440201
Email: [email protected]

KHALIL AHMED, I.A.S.


The Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Project Contact
S.N.BanerjeeRoad,Kolkata 700 013, India
Person(s) (Current):
Ph: 2286-1234/1034(D), 2286-1000 Extn. 2531/2474 Int. Com. : 235
e-mail : [email protected]

Other Information
Received an award in Goa for introducing the best car parking solution in
(Awards/
India
Nominations etc):

Reasons
why it should be NA
Replicated?

Reference Link(s): www.niua.org/projects/

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