NIT violates its own metro development plan
Nagpur – Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) is preparing a development plan for Nagpur metro region and they will continue this for next 50 years. The surprising part is that NIT itself violated its plan by accepting layouts and building plans in the metro region.
NIT presented a data in this regard to the board of trustees few days back. This data says that till December 31, 2012, NIT has accepted 291 layouts in the metro region and other 72 are under consideration. They have also approved 365 building plans and 49 are under consideration. Through these approvals NIT has earned an amount of Rs 39. 43 crore.
This data presented in the meeting included only residential layouts. Some civic activists questioned that how can one approve development (approval to layouts and buildings) when the development plan of the metro region is not ready. Few activists are planning to have a word with NIT chairman in this regard. They will submit a memorandum to rectify all wrong things planned in the Nagpur metro region.
Activists believe that Nagpur Metropolitan Committee is the right body to prepare development plan. Activists added that NIT is just a special planning authority and are not suppose to collect development and other charges. State government appointed NIT as a special planning authority on August 31, 2010.
According to a senior official of NIT, these approvals of buildings and layouts will not wrongly affect the metro region. They have approved these layouts according to the policy and regional plan already sanctioned.
Some conditions for approval of layouts were relaxed during the meeting with board of trustees. As per the data given by NIT, relaxation was given after the demand by layout developers. Earlier, NIT used to release 10 percent of total plots after agreement with the layout developer. This is done to ensure development of layouts with basic amenities. And now they have relaxed 25 percent of plots.
The board of trustees also approved the concept plan-2061 in the same meeting. This concept plan-2061 is a blueprint of metro region. NIT is planning to prepare development plan within coming next six months followed by other procedures like inviting suggestions, objections, hearings, etc in one year. Thus this entire process will take around one and a half year.
If everything goes accordingly then metro region plan will be implemented in 2014.
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