No relief in sight for parking at Sadar Bazar

Hit by legal tangles and tussle over land transfer, construction is yet to start for two parking lots; the third one is also affected by COVID-induced lockdown

It could be a long wait before the parking woes of the shoppers thronging the congested Sadar Bazar and the neighbouring market areas in the Old City might finally end. Hit by the COVID-induced lockdown, legal tangles and tussle over land transfer, all the three multilevel parking projects of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram are running behind schedule and the fate of the largest of them, the 8,332-sq m six-storey parking lot with a multiplex and a commercial space, hangs in the balance. Though the Letters of Award (LoA) have been given for all the three projects — near Jama Masjid off Old Railway Road, at Kaman Sarai, and behind the post office in Sadar Bazar — the construction is yet to kick off at two of the sites. As per the contract, all the three lots are to be constructed in two years’ time.