Economic Reconstruction Agency, Chief Executive Officer, J&K, Vinod Sharma Monday inspected ongoing work on multilevel car parking facility in city centre at Lal Chowk.ERA’s Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Azhar, in a statement to KNS, said that Rs 26.75 crore facility is being executed by ERA under the ongoing JKUSDIP (Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Programme) funded by ADB (Asian Development Bank).The project includes the construction of five tier multilevel mechanized semi-automatic car parking facility along with three storeyed commercial complex comprising of office space and public toilet.Sharma was informed that 90% of prefabricated mechanical equipments which comprises 70% of the work have been imported from China and superstructure stand already installed while as presently the electromechanical pellets are being installed and till date 30 pellets have been positioned in the slots.
He also inspected the PLC (Programmed Logic Control Unit) for this facility which has also been imported from China and will be the control unit for operation of the facility.CEO ERA directed the contractor to expedite the pace of work on installing of ACP (Aluminum composite paneling).He was accompanied by Basharat Malik, Director Central, J&K ERA, Mir Mohammad Iqbal, Project Manager, JKUSDIP, J&K ERA and other senior officers of J&K ERA and consultants. The project is first of its kind in the state and on completion would provide hassle free parking facility for about 288 cars in the busy Lal Chowk area. The option of increasing the capacity of this parking facility to about 1250 cars by merging the adjoining patch of about 14 kanals of land, presently under Ranbir Printing Press is also being explored as the press is in process of shifting to their newly constructed office complex at Sempora. (KNS)