Maharashtra Govt. buys more time to fix Mumbai development plan row

Maharashtra Govt. buys more time to fix Mumbai development plan row

Govt also amends norms to enable the six-month extension to revise DP as directed by the chief minister.


The Maharashtra government cleared decks to grant another six-month extension to revise the development plan (DP) for Mumbai.
Following a public outrage over alleged irregularities in the Mumbai draft development plan, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had in April directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to revise the draft plan, rectify the mistakes, and republish it for public suggestions and objections.
The Maharashtra cabinet cleared a proposal to amend norms permitting the state to grant an extension for such a rectification.
Highly placed sources said that the BMC, that had earlier been directed to publish the revised draft by August, had plans to seek another six-month extension.
The Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act, (MRTP) 1966, did not contain provisions permitting the state to grant such an extension.
The cabinet agreed to revise the Act to incorporate the provision.
Ironically, the Cabinet also had to amend norms for regularizing Fadnavis’s April directive to revise the DP.
Existing MRTP norms contained no provision allowing the state to issue any such directive at the draft DP stage.

The Cabinet also cleared another proposal for modification in norms permitting town planning authorities an additional year to acquire land reserved for public purpose in development plans and regional plans.

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