Parking fees up to Rs 200 back at New Delhi railway station

NEW DELHI: If you go to the New Delhi railway station on the Ajmeri Gate side to pick up or drop anyone in your personal vehicle and wait for more than eight minutes on the parking lanes, you will have to pay Rs 30 as “entry” fee. But if your waiting time on the lanes is 15-30 minutes, Rs 200 will be charged as entry fee.
The Northern Railways resumed collecting the “entry fee” from private and commercial vehicles a couple of weeks back to restrict “unauthorized” parking of vehicles causing congestion in parking lanes. It had introduced the access-controlled parking system last March, but it had to be suspended due to the Covid pandemic.
In a written response in Rajya Sabha on Friday, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “In order to manage movement of traffic and to restrict unauthorised parking of vehicles causing congestion in parking lanes, entry fee (pick-up and drop) charges are levied per vehicle at New Delhi railway station.”