MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) wants two more months to submit its revised development plan 2034, the deadline for which is August 23.
BMC officials said the civic body will ask state chief secretary Swadheen Kshatriya for the extension during a meeting this week, considering the number of errors in the plan.
“The DP is being revised because it had a number of mistakes. We cannot afford to take it lightly this time. It is a humongous task, and it is difficult to complete it by the end of August, because we aim to make it foolproof this time. We need an extension of at least two months,” said senior official, not wishing to be named.
After experts and citizen activists pointed out several flaws in the civic body’s development plan for the city, it was sent back to the drawing board. The BMC was given four months to correct the errors and present a new plan.
Sources, however, said the BMC has done little in the given time.
The spot visit process has just begun, with urban planners who will cross-check the reservations being appointed to ward offices only last week.
“It will at least take a month for the urban planners to conduct the spot visits, and then another month t o rectify errors and take decisions about reviewing a proposed road or road widening,” said an assistant municipal commissioner (ward officer).
Of the 24 urban planners, nine are BMC employees from the civic town planning department, and 15 were hired from the All India Institute of Local Self Government.
Experts are in f avour of granting the BMC the extension.
“If the department requires six months, then that time should be granted, as rectifying thousands of errors is not an easy task. This time, there should be no scope to point out mistakes,” said Pankaj Joshi, director, Urban Design Research Institute.
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