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BMC makes a farce of DP, may junk all 9,616 citizen’s inputs
MUMBAI: Your objections on the city’s Development Plan (DP) 2034 are likely to go unheard by your elected corporators. While Shiv Sena, the party that heads the
MUMBAI: Your objections on the city’s Development Plan (DP) 2034 are likely to go unheard by your elected corporators. While Shiv Sena, the party that heads the civic body, has delayed the formation of the planning committee that has to hear the objections, civic officials say time is running out.
According to Section 28 of the Mumbai Regional Town Planning (MRTP) Act, 1966, the planning committee has to submit a report “within two months from the date of its appointment”. Though the state formed the committee on August 12, the BMC is yet to appoint officials to it.
According to the Act, the committee must comprise three standing committee members and four experts appointed by the state government. It is to hear the 9,616 objections filed in by citizens between May and July, 2016. It will then submit a report to the general body which will, in turn, submit it to the state government in another two months.
The committee has already lost two weeks since August 12.
A senior civic official, who did not wish to be named, said, “The time period is two months, immaterial of the committee’s functioning.. The time period is essential because the city cannot lose any more time on the DP. There is too much confusion in the real estate market.”
With no sanctioned DP for the city in more than two years now, the BMC is following the chief minister’s order of considering both, DP 1991 and 2034 and applying the rules. “Work is getting delayed,” the official said.
On Tuesday, the Sena indefinitely postponed the committee’s formation, stating that all group leaders from various political parties should be a part of it — a demand that will require an amendment in the MRTP Act. Trushna Vishwasrao, leader of the house and Sena corporator said that the municipal commissioner needs to “shed more light” on the committee’s role before its formation.
Asif Zakaria, a Congress corporator who opposed the Sena’s demand in the house said the Sena-BJP’s infighting is making the city suffer.
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