The BMC has received around 3,100 suggestions and objections so far,
and has pushed back the last day of submission following citizens’
request.

The BMC had kept the ELU maps, prepared by it, open
for scrutiny by citizens for the last two months after NGOs pointed to
glaring mistakes in them.

The civic body has been claiming that
the mistakes could be rectified quickly. The BMC’s schedule to draft
the development plan (DP) has gone for a toss owing to the repeated
extensions of deadlines given to citizens for their feedback. The draft
of the DP, which should have been ready by October, will now be delayed
by at least two months. The ELU maps form the basis of the DP.

Errors pointed out include educational institutes marked as commercial
land, slums not mapped or mapped as green spaces and open spaces and
heritage structures mapped otherwise or not mapped at all.