Tutikandi to have multi-level parking complex

Kuldeep Chauhan

Tribune News Service

Shimla, April 17

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today said Rs 64.58 crore multi-level parking complex, near Tutikandi, would be ready in two years. The site would have parking facility for more than 700 vehicles, the biggest in the city.

But MC councillors were reportedly angry as they said they were ignored.

It would be connected with a ropeway till Jodha Niwas so that the tourists visiting Shimla may not face any inconvenience, he added.

The site would house food courts, rest rooms for public, dormitory on all floors with washroom facilities and toilets for disabled. The complex would be equipped with the fire-fighting system and also have CCTV systems for safety of the users, he said.

The Asian Development Bank will fund the parking complex, while AS Enterprise-Sam India Built Well Pvt Ltd, Chandigarh, would construct the project, he added.

He said new parking places would come up at Vikasnagar, Chotta Shimla, Sanjauli and would house more than 500 vehicles.

MC feels ignored

The foundation stone ceremony raised ire of the Shimla Municipal Corporation Mayor Sanjay Chauhan, who shot off a protest letter to Chief Minister Virbahdra Singh, which was released to the media this evening.

The Mayor charged that the Department of Tourism had not coordinated with the SMC over the foundation stone-laying ceremony as he got invitation letter at around 3 pm.

The parking project is a venture of the MC, Shimla, but he was shocked to find that the MC had been ignored, he remarked, demanding intervention of the Chief Minister in this matter.

Chauhan said the MC had identified seven sites in the city that would cater to the parking needs of tourists as well as local residents. The Tutikandi project is one of these seven parking projects out of which three are near completion at Sanjauli, Chotta Shimla and Lift.