The following public notice was published in today's Times of India:
The first page of the Gazette notification is as follows:
Once the period of giving suggestion / objection is over, a final publication will be made and the rules will be binding.
The rules apply in the Planning Area of New Town. This is defined in Schedule I of the notification. This is called the HIDCO Planning area . It excludes New Town Project Area. The Planning Area falls under Panchayats but is fast urbanising being near to Kolkata. In order to prevent haphazard buildings in an unplanned manner without regard to plan for urban roads, drainage, sewerage, parking, public utilities etc., the new rules, combined with LUDCP, will pave the way for a planned town in the future.
The rules apply to buildings that are more than 15 m high and to projects with land area of 1 hectare or more. In these cases, NKDA will scrutinise applications for sanction of building plans and give a 'NOC' only after which the Sanctioning Authority will approve the building plans. However, plans will not be received by NKDA directly. Panchayat Samity will receive the plans even for buildings above 15 m or on 1 ha and send through Zilla Parishad to NKDA for their scrutiny and NOC.
There are many progressive features in the rules which are largely based on the latest version of Kolkata Corporation's building rules. The most spectacular feature is the option of donating to government a strip of land of 2.50m width on the front of a building get permission for taller buildings.
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In the morning, I went to Nagaryan, Hidco Bhavan and NKDA to hoist the National Flag. Pictures:
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| 9am, 26 Jan 2014: Nagarayan |
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| 9.30 am, Hidco Bhavan |
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| 10am: NKDA |
Here are two clippings from today's Times of India:
Great...the best part , as you pointed out" is the option of donating to government a strip of land of 2.50m width on the front of a building get permission for taller buildings.
ReplyDeleteThis will give the govt space to widen up the roads further in future and build things like footpath, sewerage lines etc. Really nice and well thought out !!!
I had a look at the "Financial Hub" section of WBHIDCO website. Was surprised to find that no new fresh application of expression of interest has been issued after the last EOI date i.e 3rd January 2014. This is a bit unprofessional I feel on our part as more than 3 weeks have elapsed after this and we should be going "all-out" again for attracting fresh investments.
West Bengal is badly in need of jobs, we all know. For people like me, who are working outside the state, its really painful to see daily media coverage about new jobs that are getting created across cities in southern and western part of the country and not in Bengal.
If we compare with the proposed financial hub in Ahmedabad (GIFT), New town has already attracted much greater commitment from corporates with assured investment from 12 companies. I think its high time we do a road show again in Mumbai and in some other cities as well as in Singapore / Hong Kong / London / New york and start drawing investments in the financial hub.
Though started much earlier than HIDCO in 1977, this is what Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai has achieved in a much smaller space than New Town , in attracting corporates.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandra_Kurla_Complex
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1441101&page=32
If NDA govt is there in Centre after general elections in 2014, GIFT in Ahmedabad will have a natural advantage. Lets create a hype and buzz now.
Atlast! Good News is here for Sukhobristi Phast 3 investers.....
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