India, March 3 -- The state government believes that rented parking, or paid parking, could help solve one of the most challenging problems in the state's metros, starting with Mumbai, Thane and Pune.

On Sunday, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the government is designing a Parking Policy for Maharashtra. He said he would instruct the civic bodies of these cities to map parking spaces and create a software application that motorists could use to find parking slots to rent.

Fadnavis was speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the state transport department's headquarters in Worli, housed in a building owned by the department. "First and foremost, these two things need to be done (mapping and creating an app), after which we can l...