MUMBAI: A group of campaigners and experts met on Wednesday evening to discuss the issues that they wanted the revised draft Development Plan (DP) 2034 to address.
The public meeting conducted by the Urban Design Research Institute was held at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay auditorium in Fort.
Pankaj Joshi, executive director of UDRI, pointed that there was active engagement by citizens in the draft DP 2034. "The BMC was open to suggestions, however, it did not reflect in the Proposed Land Use (PLU) plan. This disconnect cannot be understood. Besides the DP 2034 draft published in February spoke about how the authorities aimed at a competitive, sustainable and inclusive plan but this too did not reflect in the proposal," said Joshi. "Out of the total 450 sq km space of the city, almost three-fourths of it has been left out with the authorities claiming that it is out of their scope. This gave the impression that the authorities were preparing the DP 2034 only for a certain section of the city," he added. "The informal sectors of the city are completely missing. Besides there are roads being shown cutting from gaothons and people's buildings. A plan, as such, if it had gone through would have affected a large majority of people," said Joshi. The draft DP 2034 has not been scrapped by the government, the civic body has been tasked with revising it.
A civic activist present at the meeting said, "If the entire city is not considered it would only lead to litigation in the future."
Former civic body chief D M Sukhtankar, who was also present for the session, said that a presentation needs to be made to the authorities. "The planners need to be sensitized to the issues raised in this meeting," he said.
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