SURAT: In order to speed up the development work around the 66 km Outer Ring Road, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has started preparing the blueprint for three town planning schemes in the areas of the road falling within its limits.

The proposal for three new TP schemes will come up in this week's town planning committee meeting of SMC.

The Outer Ring Road, which is proposed by Surat Urban Development Authority (SUDA), mainly passes through agricultural land where the portions that fall within SMC are Variyav, Kosad, and Mota Varachha. The decision is already taken to develop residential zones on both the sides of the ring road up to 500 meters and TP schemes have been proposed to to develop these zones in planned way.

The three new TP schemes are TP 83 for Kosad and Variyav sprawing 274 Hectors, TP 84 for Mota Varacha, Kosad and Abrama over 281 hectors and TP 85 for Sarthana in 130 hectors of land.

"We have started this process as we want to speedily execute the work. We have not received any objections from any body on Outer Ring Road and development of 500 meters of area on both the sides," said Manoj Das, municipal commissioner, who is also the chairman of SUDA.

"Whatever objection we have received from builders' body is about seeking higher free floor space index (FSI)," he said.

Outer Ring Road is to come up circling the city and will be 66 km long including 37 km of existing roads. New roads will come up in 29 km area of which 7.5 km will be in SMC area whereas remaining 21.5 km will be in SUDA area. The width of the road will be 90 metres and the width of existing roads width will also be increased.

In all, more than 2 lakh sq meters of land on both the road will come up for development and this formation of three TP schemes is considered as the beginning of the new chapter in Surat city's development.

SUDA is planning to formulate five new TP scheme.