Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Land Use Plan published for areas around New Town

The Land Use Development and Control Plan (LUDCP) has been published today as scheduled. The public notice appearing in Anandabazar and other dailies today is as follows:


The area for which the Plan has been drawn up is 60 sq km - more than twice as large as New Town. 1.85 lakh people are already living in this area. The LUDCP has been done through an extensive field survey so that the path to a gradual emergence of a planned township can take place without affecting existing habitation. A major portion (44.37%) of the proposed land use plan is designated as residential where housing projects can take place. But there are plans for roads and utilities (8.36%), open spaces and water bodies (16.22%), educational and cultural institutions as well as business etc.
    After the period of suggestions / objections is over, the LUDCP will be finalised and published. Together with the new building rules of NKDA for this area, the framework for preventing unplanned urbanisation and encouraging planned townships in this area will be fully in place.
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Yesterday, we did a bhumi-puja of the underground pedestrian subway near DLF Building / first rotary to enable safe crossing of the Major Arterial Road..The construction will not be done by digging: there will be tunnel boring for which a very specialised machine is being mobilised.



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We also broke coconut shells to mark the commencement of an utility building in Action Area II:



5 comments:

  1. Sir,
    LUDCP really a great step for integrated planned city development. It will have long term benefit to the development of Kolkata.
    Also many thanks for subway near DLF building, this will make life easier for thousand of commuters.
    Request you to try more to push for implementation of other planned projects in new town to generate more jobs for educated youth and overall growth for Kolkata.

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  2. This is great news... It will pave a new direction to the efforts of Urban Development in the State.

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  3. Really appreciate the LUDCP and DLF underpass initiative - all the best! Regarding LUDCP; my humble suggestion would be to increase the road percentage and also insure that adequate parking is provided in the other projects.

    In a growing economy, people would tend to get reach and therefore mark an increase in the no. of individual vehicles moving around. With around 8% marked for roads; commuting, parking and related activities may pose a problem.

    Sincerely,
    Sowmik Sengupta

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    1. I completely agree with Sowmik. Kolkata has suffered this traditional problem of having road space of around 7 %. Now in a completely new area, can we afford to have those type of developments with narrow roads again? I dont think so. We should have a road space percentage of 15% at least if not 20.

      I know land acquisition is a problem. But this is for public welfare and we just cannot ignore the issue like we ignored the issue of hawkers in New Town.

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  4. Dear Sir,

    Just to bring to your notice. As u already know the front of Unitech Infospace is completely infested with hawkers and growing everyday and overflowing dustbins just infront of Gate 2. But this is a known fact.

    What's new is till last week the fron t and side of Tata Medical Centre was atleast clean and free of hawkers. Last week I saw a first hawker setting up shop with plastic chairs just little bit left of the main gate of Tata Medical. Today morning I noticed the number already increased to 3....

    I am afraid this area also becomes same as Infospace. All your efforts in making New Town a modern city will go in vain if we patronize hawkers and let them capture lands at will and then asking for re-habilitation/compensation.

    This is just to bring to your notice.

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