Chennai
The Tamil Nadu government has decided to roll out a master plan soon for the state with a view to reining in haphazard development.
The massive exercise, covering 1.24 lakh sq km, will adhere to the norms prescribed by the Urban Development Plans Formulation and Implementation (UDPFI) and will be designed to cater to the needs of the state over the next 30 years, sources said. The plan will, however, exclude the Chennai Metropolitan Area and regions where master plans were released in the last 10 years. The Directorate of Town and Country Planning (DTCP) is the nodal agency for implementing the project.
As it is a complex task, the DTCP will outsource some work to universities, notably Anna University, which has a department specializing in town planning. Spread over three years, the project, in the first year, will cover about 8,000sqkm of urban areas like corporations, municipalities, and town panchayats, and the adjoining village panchayats.
Source: The Times of India, Chennai
