Chennai
The state government on Tuesday announced a land pooling scheme to facilitate development of satellite towns and infrastructure projects like ring roads.
Housing minister R Vaithilingam, who made the announcement in the assembly, said the scheme was aimed at decongesting core areas of cities. The scheme aims at involving land owners in developmental projects. Land owners who contribute land for such projects will be allotted developed plots proportionate to the share of land they contribute to the scheme.
People, who have invested on unapproved residential plots, have a chance of getting their plots approved as the government will soon come out with a regularization scheme for housing plots in rural and municipal areas, he said.
A detailed master plan for the entire state – excluding the Chennai Metropolitan Area and other regions where master plans were rolled out in the last decade – will be brought out by the directorate of town and country planning in the next three years. In the first year, about 8,000 sq km of land will be covered under the scheme. Towns and cities to be covered in the first year include Dharmapuri, Gobichettipalayam, Rajapalayam, Kovilpatti, Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Sriperumbudur and Tiruvallur.
To regulate developments in areas surrounding existing composite local planning areas and new town development areas, the jurisdiction of Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Salem, Tirupur and Erode CLPAs and Hosur NTDA would be expanded, said Vaithilingam.
Source: The Times of India, Chennai
