CCMC ward to get modern town planning
Wednesday, 22 January 2014 06:23
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The Times of India 22.01.2014 CCMC ward to get modern town planning
MARGAO: A one-of-its-kind road and core network system is proposed to be developed in ward number 10 named Careamoddi of the Curchorem Cacora Municipal Council (CCMC). CCMC chief officer Agnelo Fernandes said that funds amounting to 12 crore have already been sanctioned for the exercise that will be executed by the Goa state urban development agency (GSUDA).
Careamoddi is the home ward of legislator Nilesh Cabral who is representing Curchorem constituency.
Fernandes said that tenders will soon be invited by the GSUDA for the "beautification and upgradation of road and core network system" which is being developed as a pilot project for the town.
Speaking to TOI, Cabral said that the project envisages construction of elevated pathways and underground cabling, among other things. "It is being planned to develop the ward on the lines of a modern town with the provision of utility services like ducts for sewerage network etc. Once the project gets functional, it will be replicated in all other wards of Curchorem," Cabral said.
Besides, the GSUDA is also executing two more projects in Curchorem - reconstruction of municipal market building after demolishing the existing one which is in a run-down condition, and reconstruction of the existing fish market.
Both the projects are awaiting the nod of the town and country planning (TCP) department, sources informed TOI.
Besides, the GSUDA is also taking up another construction project, which was initially proposed to house only the administrative block of the CCMC. The civic body had earlier proposed to construct a two-storey administrative block of the CCMC near the GSUDA market complex through the golden jubilee grants of 2 crore provided to it by the erstwhile Congress government and lying unutilized. But, the GSUDA has modified the plan which now envisages construction of a bigger project estimated to cost 10 crore.
"While the earlier proposal of the CCMC was to have a parking facility in the basement, shops on the ground floor and administrative offices on the first floor, the project is now modified by the GSUDA to provide more floors. The modified plan also includes construction of an amphitheatre and other public amenities," official sources said.
Not many takers for occupancy papers
Thursday, 26 December 2013 06:53
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Deccan Chronicle 26.12.2013 Not many takers for occupancy papers Hyderabad: While
thousands apply for building construction permissions, very few come
back to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to obtain occupancy
certificates (OCs). Of the total 39,404 building plans
submitted in the last four years, GHMC has approved 33,881 and rejected
4,310 for various reasons. The civic body earned Rs 1,558 crore through
building, development and other fees towards approval of these
applications. However, only 4,219 applications were submitted
seeking occupancy certificates (OCs). After inspection of the buildings,
the Town Planning wing of GHMC issued OCs to only 3,054 applicants and
rejected the remaining which had more than 10 per cent deviations. OCs
are issued only to those buildings which have been constructed as per
the plans approved by the Corporation. GHMC officials do not have
information on the remaining 29,000 buildings for which applications
were approved and do not know whether these buildings have been
constructed. GHMC chief city planner G.V. Raghu said approved
building plans are valid for five and three years for group development
housing schemes and independent houses respectively. “Some people
construct the houses in the same year of the plan being approved, some
go for construction in the final year; 33,000 building applications
approved does not mean that construction of an equivalent number of
buildings has commenced,” he said. Stating that Town Planning
officials have been identifying unauthorised constructions, he said as
many as 3,867 buildings were identified to have deviated from the
sanctioned plan in the last four years. “We have demolished 989 of them,
there is a court stay on 1961 of, and criminal cases have been filed in
217 cases. The remaining are pending for action to be taken,” he said.
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Town planning department to survey traffic and pedestrian volume
Friday, 13 December 2013 11:56
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The Times of India 13.12.2013 Town planning department to survey traffic and pedestrian volume
MALAPPURAM: As part of preparing a detailed development plan for Manjeri town, the town and country planning department will conduct a detailed traffic and pedestrian survey. The survey, which will chiefly assess traffic and pedestrian volume, and its impact in town development, is expected to start in the last week of December.
Traffic congestion in Manjeri has been an issue for some time now and which major traffic revisions had failed to resolve. The survey will be conducted as part of the department's efforts to prepare master plan for seven municipalities, including Manjeri
. "The survey will have five major segments, including vehicle volume, pedestrians, speed and delay tests, parking and origin-destination (OD) survey. The survey works would be carried out by external agencies," said the deputy town planner of Malappuram, Kaja Sharafudheen.
While the vehicle volume survey will assess the rush along various routes, at different times and the type of vehicles, the pedestrian survey will focus on pedestrian movement in major junctions. Available parking area and future parking facility projects would be studied in the parking survey.
Sharafudheen said the survey will help reach conclusions regarding bypass requirement, problems at junctions, pedestrian needs , specific issues during peak hours,
etc. He said authorities can depend on the survey data while implementing temporary traffic regulations in town and while announcing new traffic systems. Recently, the authorities had to revise the traffic system for buses in town, thrice with the latest system also triggering protests from commuters and bus operators.
Meanwhile, the process of preparing master plan for the development of Malappuram, Manjeri, Ponnani, Kottakkal, Perinthalmanna, Tirur and Nilambur towns, is underway.
Property owners to pay for squatting on civic utility space
Monday, 09 December 2013 12:08
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The Times of India 09.12.2013 Property owners to pay for squatting on civic utility space
AHMEDABAD: Armed with a new resolution, the estate and town planning department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in the next few months will set off to either acquire or seek monetary compensation from property owners in the city where there is a shortfall in the required 40% land for civic amenities as mandated in the Gujarat Town Planning And urban Development Act. However, this deduction will not be applicable to the schemes which have already been finalized by the government.
The issue will stir a hornet's nest as many residential societies are not clear whether the builders or the societies have to pay for the shortfall. The basic purpose of this mandatory land deduction is to lay utility lines like drainage and water supply lines, construct roads and space for common social amenities.
For almost two decades, town planning officers in cases of almost 112 TP schemes in the city covering 10,933 hectares, had not deducted the mandatory 40% land before allowing construction. This was largely done under political influence where the property owner got away by paying a miniscule amount as "betterment charges" in lieu of keeping the land. A large part of this problem lies in the former Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) areas which were acquired by the AMC in 2006.
After a detailed exercise spanning almost three years, the officials found that in many TP schemes deduction had been only 5%, 13% and 25%. The issue is going to trigger litigations as in the majority of the cases builders have booked profits and have already handed over the functioning of the housing societies to the residents. The anomaly was found in 86 TP schemes that were prepared 25 years ago and are in various stages of approvals. In 14 new TP schemes being prepared, the AMC is planning to remove anomalies.
"We see this problem to be of some magnitude in the eastern belt especially in Isanpur, Hathijan, Ramol, Nikol, Naroda areas where there are a number of societies that have new owners. In the western part, there are plots which are still open and can be acquired by the AMC," says a senior town planning officer. "Even if residents drag us to court, the citizens will be at loss as the deduction is as per the GTP Act," adds the official.
Under the new resolution, property owners will be liable to pay for the shortfall as per the prevailing jantri rates for up to 500 square metres, wherever there is no scope for acquisition. In case of open plots where the shortfall is more than 500 square metres, the owners will be liable to pay as per the jantri rates for the first 500 square metres and almost double the jantri rates for any extra piece of land above 500 square metres.
"It's like the impact fee now. The builders constructed and illegally sold properties to the gullible people" says Dinesh Mankad, a resident on CG Road.
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