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Bangalore Master Plan 2015 has several PILs pending in courts. The principal complaint against it is that it allows commercial activities in any zone including residential areas, which will lead to further traffic congestion & chaos.

I think another major weakness is that it does not include any recommendations for transport infrastructure for the newly created areas. (See this paper - second para on the opening page).

As far as implementation is concerned, I think various agencies are already doing this when sanctioning building plans, etc, as recommended by CDP-2015. A large map is posted at BDA head office (third floor) & staff consult the map whenever they have doubts - noticed this during my last visit there sometime ago.

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"What concerns me is how this is being put in use? What is the govt doing to ensure that all the departments in BBMP work towards this plan and what are the Key Performance Indicators in operationalizing such a plan?"

Even if one agrees with the masterplan 2015( which i do not from a residential areas point of view), in my mind there are 2/3 very structural and institutional issues.

a)In the preperation of the plan itself very very little was done by BDA to bring other authorities on the page like transport auttorities, fire guys , water  guys etc.At best this was  a pushed through plan with the rest if the people who are supposed to provide civic and infratsruce services, kept on the pheriphery..

b) The masterplan  is supposed to lead to secoral plans( actually it should be the other bway around ,that sectoral plans and the masterplan go hand in hand)

c)The masterplan itself is weak institutionally in that , it is not mandated ( strictly speaking) as the base planning document for other parastatals, BWSSB ,traffic etc).Therefore other authorities really do not have the masterplan in mind when they do their own work.

d)There is no institutional provison within the masterplan process to review,check on the gorund,see  progres and make cahnges as required,It becomes a a static document ,that too not followed by all.

e)Finally all that the masterplan is used for is for spatial laws , ie where and how much one can build , a zonal coloring sheet.The fact even this is not  followed, leading to more sakrama kind of situations is another matter.

All this becomes even more relevant , since currently there is a BMRDA masterplan  being done .It is now at the first paper status.The policy document being done by SCE( a private planning org , which also did the BDA masterplan) has been submitted to BMRDA.If I am not mistaken , Abide is also on that .

This should soon come into public consultation process.Am tracking this  and will post progress ,.Praja community should get in on this.

vmenon

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Bangalore Metropolitan Area is the BDA planning are for the RCMP 2015

approx 1320 sq km so more than BBMP at 800 sq km and less than BMR which is 8000 sqkm which includes Bangalore Urban, Rural and Ramanagaram

and to add to what VMenon wrote earlier the BMR draft structure plan preparation was underway since 2008 and the draft was submitted some publci meetings were held I dont think any new process is likely.  Hopefully public pressure might work.

Meetings with abide were held ? are those minutes available?

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 The MSDI pdf file isnt downloading anybody have luck with this document? Does this cover Bangalore rural or BMR region only?

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Agree with Vijay:

CDP-2015 stands in isolation & is just a zonal document, at best. It is not linked with other urban development infrastructure areas such as water, power, transport, etc.

SCE's projects can be accessed at these links (There is a feature for Pdf downloads) :

BDA: MSDI

BWSSB: BISON

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