Bhubaneswar ( Odisha Samachar Bureau
) - A MoU signing between Bhubaneswar Development Authority & Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation on implementation of town planning scheme was held in the
3rd floor conference hall in presence of Minister Agriculture, Fisheries &
ARD, H&UD Sri Debiprasad Mishra .
The MoU was signed between Planning Member, BDA
Dr. Pitabasa Sahoo and Dy. Town Town Development Officer Sri Vatsal Patel,
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Chief Secretary Sri Jugal Kishore Mohapatra,
Development Commissioner-Cum-ACS Sri I Srinivash, Commissioner, Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation Sri Guru Prasasd Mohapatra, Vice Chairman, BDA Sri Bishal
Dev and other dignitaries were present. As a pilot project 1200 acres of land
from Mz: Madanpur and Jagsara will be taken up for T.P. Scheme. The prime
objective of Development Authorities is planned development of urban expansion
leading to organized growth. It involves compulsory acquisition of peripheral
private land. The process so far is difficult, time consuming and often leading
to litigations. Some states, particularly, Gujarat, have shown the way out of
the acquisition process by adopting Town Planning Schemes. BDA takes up planned
development through Comprehensive Development Plan and Zonal Development Plans.
In order to regulate development and use of land different schemes are
prepared. So far schemes are mostly implemented over Govt. land or acquired
private land .The difficulty in land acquisition process can be overcome
through Public participation of land owners. In a market framework distribution
of cost and sharing of benefits can be made and planned neighborhoods can be
ensured legally through Town Planning(TP) Schemes. Ahmedabad is the leader in
implementation of highest number of TP Schemes for decades. Their rich
experience and intend to share this, can adopt for planned development of our
city. TP Scheme is legally prepared by a public agency over an area notifying
land owners for reconstitution of plots with provision of developed land;
appropriate land for city & neighborhood infrastructure, where portion of
the land is contributed for roads and public infrastructure and the owner gets
part of the area in developed condition. It is profoundly a pragmatic approach
as Property rights are respected; costs are distributed among owners
proportionate to land; benefits are shared; portion of increment in land value
given to owners and developed land. In this way Planning orient to land market,
where Public participation is ensured through consultative meetings and sharing
of reconstituted land. Section 22 - 71 of ODA Act, 1982 have detail provisions
on Town Planning Scheme .It's implementation with experience and co-operation
of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will benefit BDA in achieving the objectives
of planned development. The MoU is an initiative in this direction.
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