The Master Plan for Coimbatore, which has not been revised for more than two decades now, is to be finalised in a month.

Member
Secretary of Coimbatore Local Planning Authority C. Mathivanan said
officials from seven cities were attending workshops conducted by the
Government in Chennai every weekend on preparing the Master Plan.

Based
on the guidance given at the workshop, the necessary changes are made
and inputs added to the plan. Further, GIS (Geographic Information
System) mapping is on simultaneously. “We have been asked to finalise
the revised Master Plan in a month,” he said.

After completion of
the revision exercise, the Government will have to approve it. After
that the plan will be shared with the public for their suggestions.

“This is a project that is on at a rapid pace,” he said.

Coimbatore
Master Plan was last prepared in the early 1990s. One of the
long-pending demands of the industry associations is revision of the
plan at the earliest so that the city sees planned development.

The
revised plan will look at current developments and also the demands of
the city, in terms of infrastructure and land use classification, for
the next 20 years.

It will cover 245 villages apart from the areas that fall under Coimbatore Corporation.