The BMC's much-awaited plan of introducing on-street paid parking, which is expected to be announced later this month, will include two stretches of arterial roads and three areas on a pilot basis. Once implemented, people will either have to park in the public parking lots in the area or at the pay-and-park slots on some arterial and internal roads that will be managed by contractors. The announcement comes over a week after mid-day reported about the civic body's pilot plan to allow on-street parking in three selected inside roads in the city.

Speaking to mid-day, additional municipal commissioner Vijay Singhal said that a few final measures need to be taken before the on-street parking plan is announced. "Five stretches have been refined to be turned into no-free-parking zones for free movement of traffic. This is being done in the interest of the public and the plan is to encourage people to use public parking lots (PPL) and other paid parking wherever available," he said.