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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 436 ANNEXURE – X Development Plan of Thane City 1.0 Planning Events and Authorities 1.1 Authorities Thane is an important industrial city and as a district administrative Head Quarter. Prior to formation of Thane Municipal Corporation, the different authorities having the control over the developmental activities can be summaried as – a) Thane Municipal Council :- The development over the then area under teritorial Jurisdction of the Municipal council was controlled by the local authority. b) The District collector :- The land use for the outer area of the then Municipal Council was controlled by the collector, Thane, as per the zone plan prepared for the area by the Town. Planning and valuation department and being the proposals of sanctioned regional plan for Bombay metropolitian region. c) Thane Municipal Corporation :- After the formation of Thane municipal corporation, by merging of 32 villages with the then municipal council, the developmental activities within its teritorial jurisdiction are being controlled by the Thane Municipal Corporation. 1.2 Planning Events The major events in the planning process of the present Thane City can be briefly summarised as- 1.2.1 In 1863, the Thane Municipal Council was formed with population of 9000 persons souls.

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ANNEXURE – X

Development Plan of Thane City

1.0 Planning Events and Authorities

1.1 Authorities

Thane is an important industrial city and as a district administrative Head

Quarter. Prior to formation of Thane Municipal Corporation, the different

authorities having the control over the developmental activities can be

summaried as –

a) Thane Municipal Council :-

The development over the then area under teritorial Jurisdction of the

Municipal council was controlled by the local authority.

b) The District collector :-

The land use for the outer area of the then Municipal Council was

controlled by the collector, Thane, as per the zone plan prepared for the

area by the Town. Planning and valuation department and being the

proposals of sanctioned regional plan for Bombay metropolitian region.

c) Thane Municipal Corporation :-

After the formation of Thane municipal corporation, by merging of 32

villages with the then municipal council, the developmental activities

within its teritorial jurisdiction are being controlled by the Thane Municipal

Corporation.

1.2 Planning Events

The major events in the planning process of the present Thane City can be briefly

summarised as-

1.2.1 In 1863, the Thane Municipal Council was formed with population of 9000 persons

souls.

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1.2.2 In 1958, the boundaries of Municipal council were extended towards south upto

boundry of Mumbai Municipal Corporation, comprising of kopri and chendani

villages and part of Naupada.

1.2.3 In the year 1959, the Municipal Council declared its intention to prepare the town

planning scheme, Thane I & published the same in the year 1962. The scheme

was undertaken for the area between the old Agra road and the MCGM pipeline

with the Wagle Industrial Estate towards west and restricted to Pokhran road

No.1 towards north. The said scheme was sanctioned by the Govt. on 18th

January 1985 and came into force from 1st may, 1985.

1.2.4 The Thane Municipality resolved in 1957 to prepare the Development plan of

Thane through Town planning and valuation Dept. The development plan so

prepared was submitted to Govt by the Municipality & Govt. accorded sanction in

1963.

1.2.5 In 1961, the Wagle Industrial Estate was established, giving further impetus to

industrial development.

1.2.6 In 1961, Town Planning & Valuation department prepared the zone plan for the

area towards north & west sides of Municipal Council. As industrial activities

within Greater Mumbai were restricted & there was need to have systematic

development of area these zone plans were prepared to reduce the pressure on

industrial development in Thane City.

1.2.7 In 1962, the Thane Municipal council declared its intention to prepare the town

planning scheme no.2 for part of Naupada area and the entire Municipal area to

the south of railway line. The said scheme was subsequently withdrawn and was

not processed further.

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1.2.8 In 1963, Trans-Thane Creek Industrial area was established along a 20 km strip

of land between Thane creek & the Parsik hills Kalwa Industrial area was created.

During this period the Kolshet Balkum complex area situated along the Thane-

Ghodbunder road towards west had also started industrial developments.

1.2.9 In 1965, Regional plan for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) was

undertaken & the same was sanctioned by the Government in the year 1973. The

plan has envisaged the amalgmation of the areas of Majiwade. Chitalsar

Manpada, Kolshet, Balkum, Owle within the then Thane Municipal Council.

1.2.10 In 1970, the Revised Development Plan for the jurisdiction of the then Thane

Municipal Council was prepared and published by the council & sanctioned by

Government in November, 1974.

1.2.11 In October 1982, the Thane Municipal Corporation was established consisting of

the earstwhile Thane Municipal Council & 32 other settlements including the

Kolshet Balkum industrial complex & other villages along the Thane Ghodbunder

road alongwith Kalwa, Mumbra, Kausa, Diwa etc, towards east.

1.3 Planning Documents

The following planning documents were prepared for regulating the development.

a) Sanctioned development plan for the area of earstwhile Municipal council

of Thane.

b) Zone plan for Thane North industrial complex forming part of the

sanctioned regional plan.

c) Zone plan for Kalwa - Parsik & Khari area forming part of the regional

plan.

d) Town planning scheme Thane-I.

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e) The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional plan for controlling the land use in the

area of Thane Municipal Corporation outside the above plans.

This was done to control the use of the land prior to establishment of the

Municipal Corporation.

2.0 Development plan - ( Intention, ELU,DDP, Approvals &

validity)

After the formation of Thane Municipal Corporation TMC initiated the process of

preparing the existing land use (ELU) map as first step in preparation of

development plan for the entire corporation limit. The process of preparation of

draft D.P was initiated in the year 1986.The Draft Development plan (DDP) was

published in the year 1991. After complying with all legal formalities the Revised

Draft D.P. was submitted for the approval of the State Govt in the year1996. The

Govt of Maharashtra after making necessary enquiry and consulting with Director,

Town planning of Maharashtra state sanctioned the development plan with some

modifications.

Following Table elaborate the various Govt. Notifications through which Govt.

permitted modifications, allow excluding and delletions.

Sr.No. Govt. Notification No. Date Notification Details

1 TPS-1297/1319/CR-

148/97/UD-12

04/10/1999 Sanctioned with Schedule I &

substantial modification in Schedule II

TPS-1297/1319/CR-

148/97/UD-12

27/10/1999 Sanctioned with deleting Reservations

in Schedule I, Addition of New

reservations

TPS-1297/1319/CR-

148/97/UD-12

22/11/1999 Development Plan came into force

(Excluding Schedule I & II)

2 TPS-1297/1359/CR-

148/97/UD-12

30/11/1999 D.C. Rules sanctioned for Recreational

Tourism area in Green zone I, Sector

VII in Schedule I

3 TPS-1200/412/CR-

75/2000/UD-12

20/04/2000 Sanctioning substantial modification in

Sector I

4 TPS-1299/499/CR- 26/04/2000 Substantial modification in Sr.No.29 of

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105/99/UD-12 Sector No.X

5 TPS-1200/1502/CR-

325/2000/UD-12

03/10/2000 Substantial modification in Sr.No.12 of

Sector No.VIII

6 TPS-1200/257/CR-

87/2002/UD-12

22/07/2002 Substantial modification in Sr.No.56 of

Sector No.VIII

7 TPS-1201/274/CR-

24/2001/UD-12

03/04/2003 Sanctioned with substantial

modification for entire area of Sector

No.I & Schedule list of this

modification from Section II to XI

8 TPS-120/274/CR-

24/2001/UD-12

14/05/2003 Development Plan Implementation for

excluded portion from above list

The sanctioned development plan as per the details mentioned in above

table covers the total area of 128.23 sq.km. The Planning authority for the said

plan is Thane Munic ipal Corporation and as per the MR & TP Act, 1966, Cl.42,

implementation of the development plan is obligatory on TMC. The validity of the

said DP is for 20 years from the date of final sanction of this plan

3.0 Development Plan

3.1 Broad zoning :

The broad zoning of sanctioned development plan summarialy given in the

following chart.

Table – X/1 – Broad zoning as per sanctioned D.P

Sr.No. Zoning Area in Ha.

1 Area under Residential Zone 2665.61

2 Area under Industrial Zone 1254.00

3 Area under Reservation 1267.65

4 Area under Road 742.97

5 Defence Area 122.00

6 Forest Area 3560.00

7 Green Zone Area 3211.77

12823.00

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3.2 Sectorial distribution of Residential & Industrial zone, reservation

areas and D.P. road areas is given in follwing Table. This is also

termed as Developable Area.

Table – X/2 – Sectoral distribution of developable areas

Sector No. Area under

Residential

Zone (In Ha.)

Area under

Industrial

Zone

Reservation Road

I 56.25 51.23 18.95

II 316.38 43.85 45.98

III 266.80 30.91 58.08

IV 247.10 98.43 80.51

V 308.83 126.97 116.35

VI 366.00 418.65 155.39

VII 4.15 132.95 7.80

VIII 144.00 135.00 70.30

IX 242.00 65.95 50.83

X 305.00 72.43 82.94

XI 408.00 91.28 55.84

TOTAL 2664.61 1254 Ha. 1267.65 742.97 Ha

5929.23 Ha.

3.3 Reserved Sites

There are 804 sites reserved for various public purposes. The sectorial distribution of

these sites has been given in following table. The TMC is development authority for737

reserved sites whereas for the remaining 67 sites are expected to be developed by the

Govt & other authorities.

Table – X/3 – Sectoral distribution of reserved sites.

Sector No. Total Reservations Area in Ha.

I 59 51.23

II 91

(74+17 T.P.S.I.)

43.85

III 54

(36+18 T.P.S.I.)

30.91

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IV 81 98.43

V 112 126.97

VI 94 418.65

VII 3 132.95

VIII 102 135.00

IX 72 65.95

X 58 72.43

XI 78 91.28

Total 804 1267.65

4.0 Status of Reserved Sites :

4.1 Developed sites :

Uptill March’2006 corporation has been successful in developing only 67 sites out

of 804 reserved sites, the sectorial development status is summarised in the

following table-

Table – X/4 – Sectoral status of developed reservations.

Sector

No.

Reservation Developed by T.M.C

On Pvt.Land On Govt.

Land

On

T.M.C.

Land

Total Area in

Ha

I 3 1 - 4 2.06

II 10 1 8 19 9.924

III 2 3 4 9 3.335

IV 13 1 - 14 11.01

V 2 3 - 5 35.49

VI 1 - - 1 1.37

VII - - - NIL NIL

VIII 2 3 1 6 5.40

IX 1 - - 1 0.45

X 2 1 - 3 0.76

XI 3 2 - 5 6.82

Total 39 15 13 67 76.619

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4.2 Enchroached Reserved Sites :-

The detailed survey has been carried out by the corporation in the recent past,

which reveals that 149 reserved sites has been enchroached upon by permanent

structures over the years. The details of these enchroached sites is summarised in the

following table.

Table X/6 – Sectoral status of encroached reserved sites

Sector No. Reservations Encroached Area in Ha.

I 5 1.93 II 26 8.10 III 21 10.079 IV 8 4.14 V 18 13.90 VI 1 0.29 VII 1 0.38 VIII 33 22.83 IX 15 4.86 X 5 3.05 XI 16 10.33

Total 149 79.889

4.3 Reserved sites affected by CRZ :

From the total 804 reserved sites, 115 no. of sites are affected by Coastal

Regulation Zone (CRZ) Act. There are 12 no. of reservations which still can be

developed for its designated purposes & 103 no. of reservations can not be

developed. The sectorwise breakup of the reservations affected by CRZ,

Developable reservations in CRZ as well as non developable reservations in CRZ

is given in following Table.

Table X/7- Sectoral Status of reservations affected by CRZ

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4.4 Summary of open & Developable Reserved sites :

The detailed survey undertaken by the corporation on the recent past reveals that

out of total 804 reserved sites, still 406 sites are open & can be developed for the

designated purposes. The summary of these sites given in the following table –

Table X/8 – Sectoral status of developable reservations

Sector No. Developable

Reservations

Area in Ha.

I 20 4.555

II 33 21.534

III 20 12.607

IV 56 146.20

V 60 68.33

VI 87 408.2837

VII 1 -

VIII 38 63.53

IX 30 36.27

X 16 10.20

XI 45 75.78

Total 406 847.2897 4.5 Status of Road Development

Presently Thane City have around 760 roads covering 280.00 km. length. Width of these roads varies from 2.5 m to 60.00 m. Roads with width more than 6.00 m are major roads while road having width less than 6.00 m are internal roads. From the 760 no. of roads 533 no. of roads are major roads covering about 213.32 km. length & remaining 227 no. of roads which covers 66.19 km. length are internal roads. The major roads stated above almost covers an area of 292 Ha.

The Road development status is given in the following table:

Table X/9 – Sectoral status of road development

Reserved Area for Road

Area covered by major roads with more than 6.00 m width

742.97 Ha

292.00 Ha

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5.0 Amenities & Recreation Grounds :

TMC is entitled to get certain open areas in the form of Amenity spaces & Recreational ground, according to provisions made in sanctioned Development Control Regulations. These open spaces available to corporation are treated at par with reservations made in sanctioned Development Plan. In the sanctioned D.C.R. following provisions are made vide Clause n. 63. a) Clause No.63 – In any layout exceeding 2 hectores in area in residential & commercial zones, where the development plan has not provided for amenities & services or facilities or if provided they are inadequate 5% of the total area shall be designated/ Reserved as amenity space for provision of primary schools, Sub Post Offices, Police posts etc. as directed & approved by the commissioner. Uptil now Corporation have acquired 64 no. of amenity spaces. Out of these 64 sites 32 have already been developed for various public purposes. The corpporation have prepared a priority list of 26 remaining amenity spaces to be developed innext 3 years. Among the 64 spaces mentioned above at 6 no. of sites developers will be handing over the constructed facilities free of cost to the Corporation. These 6 constructed amenities are also called as buildable amenities.

Table X/10 – Sectoral status of Amenity spaces handed over to

corporation

Total No.of Amenity plots

Total Area Developed Sites upto March'2005

Balance Sites

No. Area No. Area 64 104132.44 m2 29 50778.76 m2 35 53353.68 m2

The provisions to convert existing industrial land for development of Residential & Commercial purpose is permitted in Sanction D.C.R. According to provisions made in Appendix M clause no.6. With the previous approval of the commissioner any open land or lands or Industrial lands in the Industrial zones, may be permitted to utilized for any of the permissible users in the residential zone R-1 or R2 or for those in the commercial zone subject to the following : i) The layout or subdivision of such land shall be approved by the

commissioner who will ensure that for the land admeasuring 5000 sqm. or more 5% of the total area of land shall be reserved for public utilities & amenities like electrical sub-station, bus station, sub post office, police out post, Municipal purpose & such other amenities as may be considered necessary will be provided therein.

ii) In such layouts or subdivisions, each more than 2 Ha in area, amenities & facilities shall be provided as required by this regulation. In addition to this 2.5% of the total area shall be reserved for such amenities.

In addition to the recreational open space as is required to be provided under these regulation further 5% shall be provided as additional recreational space.

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Through above provisions in (ii), Thane Municipal Corporation have

acquired 15 no. of sites as Recreation grounds. Out of these 15 sites TMC is now developing 6 sites through private participation in first phase. These 6 sites are to be developed as grounds for various sports activities, jogging track, eco garden. The remaining 9 sites going to be developed in same manner in second phase.

Table X/11 – Status of I to R recreational grounds handed over to TMC.

Total No.of I to

R R.G. Plots

Total Area m2

Details of Site Developed in Phase I

Details of Site to be Developed in Phase

II

No Area No Area

15 60664.78 6 23384.94 9 37279.83 The land cost for Amenity plots & R.G. is given in the following table

Table X/12 – Land cost of Amenity open spaces

Total No.of I to

R R.G. Plots

Total Area m2

Land Cost as per R.R. (In Rs.)

Cost 15 60664.78 39.82 Crores

Table X/13 – Land cost of Recreational grounds

Total No.of

Amenity Plots

Total Area m2

Land Cost as per R.R. (In Rs.)

Cost 64 104132.44

m2 110.14 Crores

.

Thane Municipal Corporation could acquire these lands, free of cost as per the

provisions made in D.C.R. The development of these sites will also be carried out

through private partnership (i.e. through developers) & which again will be done without

any financial burden on TMC. The developers will be entitled to have proportionate

amount of Development Rights (DRC) in lieu of above development.

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6.0 Reservation acquired by way of TDR

The concept of Transferable Development Rights has been adopted & necessary

provisions has been made in D.C. Rules in Appendix –W. Under this concept the

land owners whose lands are earmarked for public purpose in D.P., can receive

F.S.I. to the extent permissible on the lands owned by them, provided they

surrender the land under reserved site free of cost & free from encumbrances to

the Municipal Corporation. This New tool of TDR has also reduced heavy cost of

land acquisition & can provide public amenities at faster pace to the citizen.

With the help of above provisions corporation has acquired 17 no. of reservation

lands uptill now. The area acquired through these 17 no. of reservation is about

177764.62 sq.mt.

The details of land acquired by way of T.D.R. is given in the following table.

Sr. No

Reservation Sector Area of reservation Sq. mt

Acquired Area Sq. mt

% Area of Entire Reservation

1. Garden – 9 VI 59000 3871 6.56 2. Play ground – 4 V 47500 4150 8.73 3. Park-2 V 15000 10560 70.40 4. Playground-5 IV 4100 4210 100 5. Park-4 IV 455600 21580 4.73 6. Garden-8 VI 28700 17325 60.36 7. Playground-5 VI 11200 4399 39.27 8. Playground-11 VIII 3100 2195 70.80 9. Park-8 V 61300 74205 100

10. Garden-8 V 10200 1475 14.46 11. Commissioner

Bunglow II 4500 3584 79.64

12. Swimming Pool & Garden-13

V 30000 19614 65.38

13. Primary School -1 II 14. Primary &

Secondary School-3

II 4200 860 20.47

15. Primary school-16 IV 3000 3000 100 16. Secondary school

& playground IV 3330 2600 78.78

T O T A L A R E A

744000 174128

17. Area under Road 112196.9 T O T A L

A R E A 286384.90

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7.0 Acomodation Reservations

Provision of all the basic Civic Amenities & facilities to the citizens is a basic aim in

the preparation of Development plan. It is obligatory on the part of corporation to

provide basic amenities & facilities But it is seen that this is not always possible for

corporation because of financial problems. Therefore necessary provisions has been

made in appendix 'P' of D.C. rules enabiling the land owners to develop the

reserved sites by adopting Accomodation Reservation policy. This policy permits

the development of reservation for designated purpose through private

participation. This also allow the owner to develop his property for permissible use.

Therefore both corporation & land owner are benefited. This is perfect model of

publice private partnership (PPP) if used carefully.

In this policy land under Reservation are not acquired & developed by Municipal

Corporation. But owner or private Institution will themselves develop the

reservation as per provision of DCR with necessary permissions. By this way civic

amenities & facilities can be made available to peoples by private participation with

minimizing financial burden on corporation.

The list of such Accomodation reservation developed uptill now is given in following

table. This policy have not gathered momentum uptill now and needs to be

accelerated by proper planning in developing such reservations.

Table X/14 – List of developed reservations through accommodation

reservation policy.

Sr.No. Sector No. Name of Reservation

Description of the Land

Area Sqmtr.

1 I Primary Health Centre No.1

Opp. Police Line Mouje

Kopari G.No.49 & 50 P

900

2 III Hospital No.1 S.N.154 P Panchpakhadi

750

3 IV Maternity Home No. 1

Mouje Chitalsar Manpada G.

No. 59 P

4000

4 V Secondary School No.5

Mouje Kolshet S.No. 124, 125

4900

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P 5 V Secondary School

No.9 Mouje Dhokali S.No. 88,89 P.

5500

6 IX Primary School No. 2

Mouje Kausa S.No. 117 P

4500

7 IX Market No.4 Mouje Kausa S.No.158/2 Pt.

1634.00

Total 22184.00 Sqmtr.

8.0 Financial implication

For effective implementation of development plan priority should be given to

acquire lands under all the reserved sites. After acquiring these sites the

corporation has to make necessary budgetary provisions for development of these

acquired sites.

.

The cost of acquisition of entire land under the reserved sites shown in D.P. as per

1991 values comes out to the tune of Rs. 209 Crores.The same cost as per the

present values comes out to the tune of Rs. 6000 Crores, which do not include the

cost for development of these sites. This shows the tremendous financial

implications in implementation of DP. .

9.0 Different models of Implementation of Development Plan.

9.1 Background

The first sanctioned development plan of the Thane City came into force from 4th

November, 1974. The plan was for the jurisdiction of an area about 26 sq.m. of

then Thane Municipal Council and designed for the population of 2.91 Lakhs by

1991. The Thane Municipal Corporation came into existence on 1st Oct, 1982. Prior

to that or even within a period of 10years from the date of coming into force of

Development Plan, the performance on implementation of the proposals of the

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Development plan was very poor. The local authority succeeded in implementing

the said plan only to the extent of 16.24% in terms of the total reserved area. The

scenario in implementation of the present development plan is not different.

The implementation of Development plan can be classified into two broad

categories-

a) The proposals of the development plan to be implemented by acquiring the

lands earmarked for public purposes and carrying out the developments by

urban body itself & appropriate authorities.

b) Control on developments as per land use zones to be carried out by land

owners and private developers as well as other concerned agencies under

provisions of development control rules.

The development plan envisages public sites earmarked at appropriate places for

providing civic amenities and facilities and proposals of the land use zones for

controlling the private development. It is the duty of the local authority to

implement the development plan. The main hurdle in implementation is the huge

amount of funds required & sources through which they can be arranged. Therefore

to make the implementation realistic and enforceable, necessary provisions have

been made in the Development Control Regulations.

9.2 Different models of D.P.implementation :

The previous legal frame work provides following three ways or models for

D.P.implementation.

9.2.1 Compulsory land acquisition & development :

This is the traditional means of development. The Maharashtra Regional and Town

Planning Act; 1966 U/s 126 stipulated the procedure and powers in this regard.

Though this provision is available, it involves huge cost which exerts heavy

financial burden on the local authority. Also a lot of time required in acquiring

these sites ultimately defeat the purpose of development. These in fact has

defeated the purpose of development.

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9.2.2 Undertaking town planning schemes. :

The Town planning schemes have the distinct advantage of reducing the cost of

implementation i.e. acquisition of lands and developments thereon to a greater

extent by way of lavying betterment contribution from land owners. But this idea

have the drawbacks such as it takes a long delay for the schemes to come into

force on finalisation.

9.2.3 Private negotiations with the land owners :

The private owner also does not handover the lands which are under reserved site.

The cost of land acquisition is also very huge.

The recent provisions has introduced some other effective modes of

implementation of DP.-

9.2.4 Public Private Participation (PPP) :

Ths sanctioned develoment control regulations has provided the means of

development of reserved sites for the designated purposes by involving the land

owner vide Appendix 'P'. As per these provisions viz; "accomodation reservation",

the landowner can develop the reserved sites for its designated purpose with his

own cost and to handover the same free ofcost to the corporation. In return, he is

premitted to develop the potential F.S.I. for his own purpose in confirmity with the

allowable user in that area as per the zoning of D.P. The category of reservations

that can be developed under this stipulations by way of PPP has been enumerated

in Appendix 'P' of D.C.R. If used properly & convincingly this may prove to be

pefect model.

9.2.5 Acquisition and development by way of TDR :

The concept of transfer of Development Right has been recently incorporated in the

Development Contro l regulation of the city vide Appendix 'W' The owner of a plot of

land which is reserved for a public purpose in the development plan and to be

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developed by the corporation are eligible for award of Transferable Development

Rights (TDR) in the form of floor space index (FSI) such award will entitle the

owner of the land to FSI in the form of a Development Right Certificate (DRC)

which he may use himself or transfer to any other person. The additional TDR is

also available to the owner who develops or constructs the amenity on the

surrendered plot at his cost subject to certain stipulations. These additional

development rights are in the form of FSI and are equivalent to the area of

construction / development done by him.

This provision has proved to the best instrument in implementation of development

plan. The scarcity of funds for acquisition and subsequent development and

unavoidable delay in acquisition proceeding can be successfully avoided by using

the TDR concept. If this policy is systematically planned and implemented, then

this will be a very handy and important tool for implementing the Development

plan. The results are quiet satisfactory and it can been seen that 17 reserved sites

& nearly 12 Ha. land under D.P. road is acquired through this provision in only 3

years span.

Different models for implementing the development plan has been discussed at

length as above. Considering the present trend of development, market position,

various constraints of the local authority it is becoming impossible to adopt the first

three models for D.P. implementation. Therefore corporation after carrying out

comprehensive survey, study and analysis of reserved sites, amenities and open

spaces has scientifically planned the programme of D.P. implementation by

effectively using the last two models as mentioned above. This programme has in

part already been initiated the summary of which is as mentioned herein :-

a) Acquisition of reserved sites by way of TDR.

b) Development of reserved sites viz; buildable reservations by PPP.

c) Promoting & encouraging the accomodation reservation policy.

d) Acquisition & development of amenity plots by way of TDR

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e) Development of recreational ground, play ground, garden i.e. open type of

reservations through TDR.

f) Construction of elevated water tanks, sumps by way of TDR (under

process)

g) Development of DP roads by way of TDR (under process)

10.0 The strategy proposed by T.M.C. for effective implementation

of D.P.

The evalution of D.P. showed very poor performance in implementation of

development plan. comprehensive surveys & detailed analysis had been

carried out to evaluate performance of D.P. It is proposed to adopt

following strategy for effective implementation of D.P..

All open type of reservations will be acquired by way of TDR by simplifying the process

1) All open type of reservations will be acquired by way of TDR by simplifying

the process and minimum target will be as follows.

Each year 2 No. of open reservations to be acquired & developed such as playgrounds, Recreation grounds gardens.

2) To scrupulously follow the Accomodation reservation policy with private

participation. Priority to be given to land owners / Pvt. & Public institutions to develop the buildable amenities under Appendix ‘P’ of the D.C.R. wherein first priority will be given to owners / institution to develop the reservation those having more than 50% of land under reservation.

3) T.D.R. Policy will be used scientifically to acquire maximum no. of reserved

sites.While sanctioning development proposals if land falls under reservations, then it is planned that a policy will be adopted in which an owner either develops the reservation or hand over the reserved land in lieu of TDR. The owner wherever applicable can also submit the proposal of development of reservation as per Appendix 'P of D.C.R.

4) Parking Reservations will be developed in developed & under developed areas either by TDR or by due process of land acquisition.

5) The D.P. roads with more than 30 m width will be developed on priority.

6) The reservation for housing for dishoused & transit camp will be developed

as per provisions in Appendix 'P' of D.C.R. which will have PPP model.

7) The reserved sites / lands owned by Govt. will be acquired on priority as per Govt. rules & condition.