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Patna is the town of apartments;
yes we believe that if number of apartments and the area in which they are
spread, means density of apartments is calculated Patna would be among national
toppers. The higher density reflects greater
strain on the limited infrastructure that our city Patna offers. Patna has few
roads and mainly comprises of lanes. With High rises built on these lanes, one
can very well imagine the stress of traffic and parking on these lanes; not to
speak about other civic amenities in a city of more than 2 million residents.
We asked one of the builders in Patna why their new commercial building built near DPS More in Patna do
not have ample parking spaces. The answer was amazing!!! He took a comparative stand
and said that the cars are parked outside the corporate offices in Gurgaon too.
Our second question was; that justifies you too building structures without
ample parking lots? He replied;” it’s the norm.” He is asking for a rental of
Rs.80 per sq.ft for this commercial building with inadequate parking space.
Can you believe it!!! To add to this the parking space in Patna costs at
least 2.5 lakhs and goes as high as 5 lakhs in residential and commercial
buildings. In most of the apartments in Patna there is shortage of parking
spaces and the visitors parking is invariably missing. By the way this builder
has its own office in a narrow by-lane and it is a high rise. “He never
faces the parking owes because it seems there are so few or no visitors to his office.”
His ignorance and arrogance looms large and we hope that in times to come the
Patna home buyers will be mature enough to not deal with such developers in
Patna and the responsible builders in Patna will make efforts to give better
amenities to residents.
If you throw a Party at your
house in Patna and you reside in a Flat then you will disturb the traffic of
your area if you call about 10 families to your party. All of them will be
forced to park around your apartment and hence block a major part of the lane
on which your apartment lies.
The mushrooming of apartments
have also given rise to perennial owes like solid waste management in the city.
The garbage bins, if they are placed in a locality, seem to get full with so
many families residing in such small areas. The bigger bins will block the
lanes. Let us not add topics like
sewerage and sanitation, because then the list will go on and on and we will
conclude that our city has no basic amenities for its citizen generally
available in cities.
No doubt, we have made mistakes?
Can we rectify things from now on? Sure we could. The new master plan of Patna
and the new Building By-laws are taking care of these parking, sewerage,
sanitation and water problems. Parking and open spaces are being earmarked as
certain percentage of the total area of land and building. The master stroke in
the bye laws is the correlation between the width of the road and the height of
the building. Patna can build high rises only on broader roads. Many are crying
that our city does not have broad roads; the answer is that than do not build
high rises. Secondly to build a high
rise in Patna the minimum land area too needs to greater than 6 and half
katthas. That is another good effort to clear the mess in the New Patna that
will be built in years to come.
The people need to understand
that is for the betterment of the city. Better lifestyles will be available in
Patna and it will De-congest the city. The residents will be less dependent on
centre of cities and the offices and other activities will move into newer and
greener areas of Patna. There is always a pain to get some gain. We also are
aware that many developers and builders in Patna have been caught on the wrong
foot. They have land banks comprising lands on narrower lanes and smaller than
six and half katthas. They need to pull up their socks and re- strategize their
policies in the light of new better building bye-laws, rather than acting
selfish and against the betterment of their and our city PATNA.
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