Development Plan
After the Maharashtra government was forced to announce a change in the draft development plan (DP) owing to gross mistakes and critical comments by various urban planners, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) chief has assured that the new draft of the Development Plan (DP) 2034 will be completely error-free. Citizen forums and activists who protested [...] Continue Reading »
The tender for the first phase of a new bus stand that is to be constructed in Mapusa was floated. The bus stand is to be built on a 20,000 square metre of land on the southern side and adjacent to the existing KTC bus stand. First Phase of Construction: The first phase of construction [...] Continue Reading »
The first meeting on roads for revising the draft of the city’s development plan (DP) was held and the roads in the proposed DB were discussed. 13 committees comprising officials have been formed to conduct the basic survey of the draft DP. 10 committees have already submitted their basic survey reports. The remaining reports are [...] Continue Reading »
Plots in Mumbai which have been kept aside for affordable housing is being misused. More than 40% of the land has been either lying vacant or are encroached upon now. Five out of eight plots reserved for welfare centres are misused. Around 60% of plots are only used out of total. Malad-Malwani stretch in the [...] Continue Reading »
With the fast pacing growth in the city with high rise, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has no idea of the number of open spaces or plots in Mumbai. The civic body which is an authority body, supposed to keep records of all the plots available in the city, but fails to do so. It does [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Sahakarnagar have been protesting against a road that has been proposed to be built through the Waghjai hill. This road will link Sinhagad Road to the Dashabhuja Ganapati Road in Tulshibaugwale colony in Pune. The proposal has been planned under the draft development plan (DP) and will give a better connectivity. It will [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has plans of including the norms for setting up mobile towers in the city. This has been planned witnessing many mobile towers coming up in the city. This initiative will be a part of development control (DC) rules which will be included in the revised Development Plan (DP) for old areas [...] Continue Reading »
Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation(PCMC) is set to put boundaries on all the lands as marked in the development plan (DP). The civic body is not able to acquire many of them, so it has not developed many of these plots. As per the engineering department of PCMC, the land demarcations will be done whichever are [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Development Plan (DP) has again gone into troubles after some of the corporators raised issues during a recent general body (GB) meeting of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The ruling party and others managed to get their resolutions passed in this meeting but some were not happy with the resolutions and hinted that they would be moving [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has for the third time extended the deadline for getting objections and suggestions from the citizens for the existing land use (ELU) maps. Since January 24, deadlines have been shifted twice. Now it has been extended for another month. BMC had got around 3,000 responses on the last day of giving [...] Continue Reading »
