Higher TDR for Tapovan land sealed in NMC’s meeting
Nashik Municipal Corporation’s (NMC), General Body Meeting (GBM) resolved to grant higher Transfer and Development Rights (TDR) for land owners at Tapovan to acquire plots for Sadhugram to accommodate the sadhus visitng the city during next year’s Kumbh mela.
City’s Mayor, Yatin Wagh said the civic body would grant TDR of 10 for land at Tapovan while the existing TDR permissible is 0.20 as it is in the no development zone.
The NMC intends to reserve the land for Sadhugram, thus, changing the reservation from a current “no development zone”. The land-owners will also be able to utilize the enhanced TDR after the urban development department approves the proposal.
In the words of Mayor Wagh, “The NMC needs crores of rupees to acquire land for Sadhugram at Tapovan and it is not affordable for the municipal corporation. Considering the existing land rates and new land acquisition act of the government, it was necessary to give higher TDR to the land owners so that they would be ready for the acquisition. Considering this, the TDR of 10 will be granted to the land owners for acquisition of the land. The resolution of the GBM of the NMC will be sent to the state government for its approval.”
In an earlier meet of the apex committee of the state on Kumbh, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan had asked the NMC to prepare an “attractive proposal” for TDR for land acquisition at Tapovan. Accordingly, the civic administration had tabled a proposal at the last GBM in December, seeking approval to additional 1.25 TDR for land acquisition at Sadhugram, but the corporators had gone ahead to seek the maximum TDR for the acquisition of the land.
Here upon, the mayor had asked the civic administration to revise the proposal for additional TDR. After this, the civic administration had prepared a fresh proposal seeking 1.50 TDR to landowners for the acquisition of land. The proposal was tabled at the GBM on Saturday, in which the GBM of NMC resolved to grant TDR of 10.
Around 163 acres of land fall in no-development zone in Tapovan area. It is located in the central part of the city and close to the Mumbai-Agra highway and the Aurangabad highway.
Around three lakh sadhus are expected to visit the city during the next Kumbh mela scheduled in 2015. Of nearly 323 acres of land identified for the Sadhugram in the Tapovan area, 54 acres have been acquired by the NMC. The rest has been proposed for the Sadhugram at Tapovan. Of the remaining 269 acres of land, 163 acres fall in a no-development zone, while 58 acres in a residential zone have been reserved for Sadhugram by the state government.
Source: The Times of India
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