Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is launching ‘Smart On-Street Parking’ facility in Gulshan area as a smart city of the capital. Under this service, anyone can go to these specific places and park the car using the app.
Apart from this, advance booking for parking at specific places can also be done using the app. Smart parking service fee should be paid through mobile banking and bank card through the app. Apart from this, the fee can be paid through Point of Sales (POS) machines at the parking lot. However, those who do not have a bank card or mobile banking account for these facilities will be given a parking card. And the authorities will deduct the parking charges from there.
According to the sources, initially, this smart parking service is going to be launched in the roads no. 46, 52, 58, 62, 63, 64 and 103 of Gulshan and around the roads of raw market of Gulshan-2. Primarily, 202 cars can be parked in each parking lot through smart parking. Later this service will be expanded to different areas under DNCC.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal will inaugurate this program which will be launched on an experimental basis on Wednesday (8 November 2023) in the morning. Local MP AKM Rahmat Ullah, Mohammad Ali Arafat and others will attend the event which will be chaired by the Mayor of DNCC, Md Atiqul Islam.
DNCC is introducing roadside parking system through the ‘DNCC Smart Parking’ app by paying hourly basis instead of causing disruption and fines by parking anywhere and everywhere. As a result, through this app, the car owner or driver can see where the parking slot is empty in the vicinity. After that anyone can park their car using the app. Besides, when leaving the house, the car can be booked for parking in a specific or desired place around the place where it will go. The parking fee has been fixed for the first two hours, but the fee has been increased from the next hour so that more people get the benefit of parking.