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Parking facility is an essential civic amenity for urban citizens. Rapid urbanization and inadequate public transport system has accentuated the use of personalized vehicles occupying significant space on urban roads. Today the majority of the urbanites spend more time in travel to go to their office or to other destinations. A progressive urban parking policy will help to achieve enhanced mobility of
people and efficient parking of motorized as well as non-motorized modes of transport in cities and towns in Odisha. The overarching objective of the parking policy is to develop parking places
and organise parking activities for all types of modes of transport. The policy also aims to discourage daily usage of personalized motorized vehicles, promotion of mass transportation and use of non-motorized transport system. The Policy recommends (i) short duration parking spaces for two-wheelers, three-wheelers, mini and city buses; (ii) long term and overnight parking spaces; (iii) provisions of parking to be made near Retail Commercial/Shopping with public conveniences; etc.