Hyderabad: A new master plan for the city will be ready soon. With the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (Huda), which prepared the blueprint, receiving several objections, a three-member committee has been set up to look into it. The committee has to submit its report in a month to the state government. The expert committee, constituted by the municipal administration and urban development (Maud) department, includes retired chief secretary T K Dewan as chairman while retired principal chief planner of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) V K Phatak and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University professor, school of planning and architecture Ravi Anand are members. The committee has held its first meeting. Maud principal secretary and chairman (in charge) of Huda S P Singh, Huda vice-chairman Jayesh Ranjan and revised master plan (RMP) special officer, S P Shorey were present at the meeting. The committee has to verify if scientific and commonly accepted principles of land use planning have been followed in the preparation of the draft master plan, if the desired level of public consultations were made and also to check if opportunities were given to all stake holders as per law to express their objections and suggestions. Last month, the Huda and state government issued a notification inviting objections and suggestions on the revised master plan. "Responding to this, around 1,200 objections and suggestions were received from the people. The committee will examine these and a report will be prepared.' The new master plan makes a provision for land requirement for an anticipated 2020/2021 population (around 136 lakh) for the Hyderabad metropolitan area. The master plan has provided for a network of ring, radial and express roads to increase connectivity and improve accessibility to new areas and for all tanks and water bodies to have at least 30 m buffer green belts.
God only knows, when the master plan will be ready, while citizens across Hyderabad are undergoing pain of this inaction by the authorities.
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