By Sabyasachi Sharma

Guwahati  : Assam’s car parking problems are about to be addressed soon. Now an App is ready to solve Assam’s Car Parking problem. Two young engineers of Assam are all set to address car parking problems in the Northeastern region with their mobile app named ‘Parking Rhino’. The app will reportedly manage both on-street and off-street parking in Guwahati and other towns of Assam such as Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Tezpur, by providing real-time information to drivers. The two founders Tridib Konwar and Mriganka Deka, both alumni of the Assam Engineering College, reportedly, secured seed funds from Numaligarh Refinery Limited’s ‘Ideation’ programme last year and they were able to launch their operation in Guwahati. ParkingRhino is currently serving 15 cities in India along with two cities in Philippines and there are plans of launching the app in a few South-East Asian countries in the next six months. Reports say that ParkingRhino has begun market research and lead generation for other northeastern states and has plans of digitizing more than 400 parking locations in the region through the platform. The app will most likely cover more than 50 GMC (Guwahati Municipal Corporation) parking locations in Guwahati-Shillong Road and Zoo road in the next few months. The founders, bogged by inefficient system of parking vehicles in their work city Bengaluru had launched the app in 2016, but the focus shifted towards the North East after Assam-based Numaligarh Refinery Limited had launched ‘Ideation’ last year to promote start-ups in the northeast and selected ParkingRhino along with two other firms for funding their projects. It should be mentioned here that it is real good news for the peoples of Assam. This mobile app can solve the daily problems of the peoples who worried for parking their vehicles.