Draft of revised DP for old city limits published on Thursday.
With 937 reservations for public amenities, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) published the draft of the revised development plan (DP) for the old city limits on its official website on Thursday.
The civic body has also kept the copies of the revised draft at the office of its city engineer Prashant Waghmare, who is also the town planning officer, for inspection and sale enabling citizens to give suggestions and objections within 30 days. Citizens can give their inputs in written to the civic body.
A planning committee comprising three standing committee members and three members from the civic body and the state government will be appointed to conduct the hearing of the submitted suggestions and objections.
“After the hearing, the planing committee will prepare a report to be submitted to the GB for holding further discussions,” said Waghmare.
The DP then will be once again revised with the required changes and the final draft of the approved DP will be submitted to the state government for seeking its approval. Once the state government sanctions the plan within next year, the DP will be released in the official gazette and the civic body will be able to implement it.
It was in 2007 that the DP was to be approved and implemented by the civic body. Now that five years have passed, PMC will have to implement the work in the next 15 years. (Implementation of the DP is carried out in 20 years)
In the first phase, PMC will acquire the land, develop the reservations and carry out development work.
The estimated amount to carry out the phase-wise implementation is pegged at Rs14,979 crore. This includes both the cost of land acquisition and the cost of development of the reservations. A total of 1,087 hectare needs to be acquired to develop the various reservations and carry out the developmental work in the DP.
Earlier the draft DP was in the eye of storm as some senior Congress corporators alleged that reservation for public amenities on prominent spots were deleted to favour the builder’s lobby.
Even few social organisations wanted to participate in the DP process in order to keep the reservations meant for the public amenities intact.
The general body of the PMC approved the draft of revised DP on January 7 with several ambiguities. Incomplete supplementary suggestions delayed the publishing of the DP.
To sort out the ambiguities, the GB recently asked the civic administration to weed out the unclear amendments. It was after that the town planning officer published the DP on Thursday, few days before the deadline of April 4 set by the urban development department of the state government.
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