The BMC, which is currently working on revising the draft Development Plan (DP) 2014-34, is considering running the revised draft past the assistant commissioners, or ward officers, of all 24 wards as they would be aware of local area reservations, said officials.
The state government in April gave the civic administration four months to rework and revise the draft DP after a public outcry over the large-scale mistakes in it, such as erroneous or ill thought-out land reservations across the city.
The draft DP was published in February and was criticized by activists and politicians alike. People found proposed roads cutting through old-time societies and religious places, wrong reservations at several places and heritage structures absent from the draft DP.
Activists said given the shoddy job on the original draft, revising it in four months would be a marathon task, if not impossible.
A municipal official said the BMC was looking at making fundamental changes in the draft DP and not just a correction of the errors observed. The official said the revision was on in full swing with the recent appointment of former bureaucrat Ramanath Jha as officer on special deputation.
“We are considering showing the plans to the assistant commissioners of the various wards in the city , who have fair knowledge of their respective areas,“ the official said. “This is likely to be done towards the end of the revision process only .The ward-level officers would probably be able to point out things which the planners might not have foreseen at macro level.“
Activists said it was a good idea to run the plan through ward officers.
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