A Round Trip To Delhi Is Cheaper Than BMC’s New No-Parking Fine

Parking a car in a no-parking zone in Mumbai may leave you digging deep into your wallet after the city’s civic body rolled out a steep hike in penalty.

The municipal corporation has also set up public parking lots in corporate and residential buildings. In Mumbai’s business district of Lower Parel, the BMC has set up parking facilities in commercial buildings like Indiabulls Finance Center and Lodha World Towers.

The BMC said it has 146 parking facilities across the city which can be used to park around 34,000 vehicles. But given that there are over 9 lakh cars and more than 19 lakh registered two-wheelers in the city, the mismatch is immense.

While some vehicle owners believe the fine is the only way to get people serious about parking discipline, most cab drivers as well as Mumbai's famous kaali peeli taxi operators said the amount is unfair.