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.
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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