The Hindu 09.04.2010
New master plan for Kozhikode city
Staff Reporter
| Directive to follow government guidelines |
Spatial Integration Committee constituted
Committee to help Town Planning Department
Kozhikode: The City Corporation Council has decided to prepare a new master plan for Kozhikode. A Spatial Integration Committee, with Mayor M. Bhaskaran as chairman, Corporation Secretary K. Vijayakumar as convener and Corporation Engineer K.P. Mathew as joint convener, has been constituted in this regard.
A meeting of the council, chaired by the Mayor here on Thursday, decided to include on the committee a councillor from each of the 17 working groups earlier formed for initiating development programmes under the People's Plan Campaign.
The decision to prepare a master plan was based on a State government directive seeking corporations to conform to its earlier guidelines. A development seminar would also be held for the purpose.
Deputy Mayor P.T. Abdul Latheef said that the committee would help the Town Planning Department in providing data in each ward of the city. The major responsibility of the councillors would be to facilitate the process of collecting secondary data, such as schools, hospitals and housing colonies located in their respective wards.
The Corporation had prepared a vision document in 2004. This had been submitted to the government long ago. So, the collection of data would not be a Herculean task, he said.
The new committee will provide additions to the earlier document. The Town Planning Department has been entrusted with the task of preparing the master plan, Prof. Latheef said.
