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Efforts to gully up a Revised Master Plan - 2041 by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) person been deed with the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024, which makes Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) the Local Planning Authority (LPA) for the GBA country of 712 sq. km.
The caller draught is lone expected successful 2027, which volition beryllium 12 years aft the past RMP was due. The maestro program successful unit was drafted successful 2005.
Earlier, the BDA was the LPA for the full Bengaluru Metropolitan Area (BMA) of 1,294 sq. km, including the GBA area. Now, GBA is the LPA for its country and BDA the LPA for the peripheral areas of BMA dispersed implicit 582 sq. km.
GBA has called for tenders to enactment successful a advisor for drafting the RMP-2041 and bidding closes connected March 6. Once a advisor is selected, they volition get 11 months clip to draught a caller RMP aft which it volition beryllium submitted to the authorities and beryllium opened for the public, said Sunil Kumar P., Chief Town Planner, GBA.
BDA had called akin tenders doubly successful 2025 erstwhile it was preparing RMP for the full BMA. Scrapping them, BDA is each acceptable to telephone tenders for hiring a advisor to hole an RMP for the reduced country this week, said M. C. Shashikumar, Member (Planning), BDA.
BDA had roped successful Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Centre (KSRSAC) to hole a basal representation for the BMA successful 2025. While a basal representation for the GBA country is acceptable and volition beryllium shared with GBA, to signifier a starting constituent for GBA’s RMP-2041, a caller basal representation volition person to beryllium created for the caller BDA area. KSRSAC volition apt beryllium tasked with creating this basal representation arsenic well, sources said.
Coordination betwixt 2 RMPs
With 2 RMPs for the BMA, determination are concerns implicit coordination, particularly arsenic the metropolis has already grown beyond GBA limits into BDA areas. “We request to draught the 2 plans successful implicit synergy truthful that the modulation from 1 program to different should beryllium seamless connected the ground,” Mr. Sunil said.
Sources successful the authorities said that either a coordination committee with municipality planners from GBA and BDA volition beryllium formed to this end, oregon committees to oversee the RMP process successful some bodies volition person members from the different body.
First RMP with each stakeholders connected board
Town planners and civic activists person welcomed GBA being made LPA , chiefly for 2 reasons; readying is nether the section government, successful enactment with the 74th amendment of the Constitution of India, and for the archetypal time, each parastatals of the metropolis would beryllium progressive successful planning.
Earlier maestro plans person been criticised for neither involving parastatals similar Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL), Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) and Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) etc, nor was it binding connected them. This meant RMPs’ became a specified onshore usage plan, alternatively than a holistic program for the city’s growth.
In fact, an earlier draught of RMP-2031 was withdrawn by the BDA arsenic the Comprehensive Mobility Plan of BMRCL opted for Transit Oriented Development (TOD), densifying areas on metro corridors providing higher Floor Area Ratio (FAR), which was not portion of the draught RMP-2031.
However, with nary civic polls still, the RMP-2041 volition again apt beryllium driven by bureaucrats alternatively than elected representatives. If the 5 corporations get elected councils aboriginal this year, it needs to beryllium seen however councillors and the 5 corporations volition beryllium progressive successful drafting the RMP.
