NEW DELHI: The Union government has approved ₹631 crore funding to states to prepare GIS Geographical Information System -based master plans for 675 towns with a population of 50,000-99,999 people, minister of state in the ministry of housing and urban affairs Kaushal Kishore told the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Master plans are long-term vision documents usually prepared by cities every …
Vijayawada: The Union housing and urban affairs ministry has recognised Amaravati as the capital of Andhra Pradesh and affirmed that the city is having an active master plan for its development. MP Javed Ali Khan posed a question citing the fact that 39 per cent of the state capitals do not have active master plans even as this was essential …
Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 Sherpa, stressed at a recent Urban-20 City Sherpas’ meet that a master plan is crucial for any city to manage urbanisation. While this is a central legislation focused on industrial pollution, the legal and institutional frame of the master plan remained unchanged with its archaic conceptions of land development for urban service rationalities. Fourth, the statutory …
HYDERABAD: With pressure mounting from protesting farmers from several districts in the election year, the BRS government led by K. Chandrashekar Rao, who is campaigning with the ‘Ab Ki Baar Kisan Sarkar’ slogan for the 2024 elections, has decided to put a hold on approvals for ‘master plans’ for municipalities and municipal corporations. After Kamareddy and Jagtial municipalities passed resolutions …
Hyderabad: Abnormal delay in finalisation of new master plans in urban local bodies is adversely affecting people, who are unable to construct houses. Ironically, some municipalities continue to use the decades’ old master plans. Of 142 urban local bodies, only 74 master plans are being implemented. Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, joint director of the directorate of town and country planning …
The Delhi Development Authority has published the draft Master Plan of Delhi for 2041 for comments and suggestions. There are four important checkpoints to ensure the implementation of a master plan, and the MPD-2041 should be put through this scrutiny: Learning from past failures, planning with specific spatial proposals, planning with a realistic budget, and finally, developing a robust implementation …
Last week, the Delhi Development Authority released the draft Master Plan for Delhi 2041 for public review. First, MPD is the Capital’s master plan, and it can work as a template for other cities; and second, it highlights the importance and significance of urban planning in shaping the development trajectory of cities. Second, while a master plan is an ideal …
