{"id":250543,"date":"2023-07-03T20:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=250543"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:25:05","slug":"the-master-plan-and-the-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-master-plan-and-the-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"The master plan and the slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cThe master plan and the slaves\u201d <\/strong>published in The Hindu<\/strong> on 3<\/strong>th Ju<\/strong>ly<\/strong> 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS1-Urbanization<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> \u00a0Urban planning<\/p>\n

News-<\/strong> Amitabh Kant, India\u2019s G20 Sherpa, stressed at a recent Urban-20 City Sherpas\u2019 meet that a master plan<\/strong> is<\/strong> crucial to manage urbanisation.<\/p>\n

Master Plan is an instrument of governance for urban local bodies (ULBs). It is essentially a spatial plan of land-use allocation supported by bye-laws and development control regulations. The institutional structures, cultures, and practices of ULBs are built around this spatial vision and provision of urban services.<\/p>\n

What are problems in master plan?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

First<\/strong>ly<\/strong>, the master plan instrument is dated and archaic<\/strong>. It requires an update. The concept, configuration and rationalities of this instrument drafted in the 1950s. For example, the Water Act-1974 focused on industrial pollution only.<\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>ly<\/strong>, <\/strong>a master plan is simply a spatial plan of land-use allocation supported by bye-laws<\/strong> and development control regulations.<\/p>\n

Third<\/strong>ly<\/strong>, this spatial vision is at the core of institutional structures<\/strong> of ULBs. The ULBs are shaped and run by the agenda of regulating spatial growth and they become limited to these ideas<\/strong> and conceptions.<\/p>\n

Fourth<\/strong>ly<\/strong>,<\/strong> the statutory and spatial nature of the master plan can pose constraints on the programmatic plans<\/strong>, especially the spatially associated ones such as the plans for protection of water bodies.<\/p>\n

Finally,<\/strong> there is no set criteria for mandating a spatial plan to regulate urban growth.Close to 65% of India\u2019s urban settlements<\/strong> do not have master plans, according to NITI Aayog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

we must acknowledge that the master plan instrument may be limited by its archaic conceptions and entrenched institutional cultures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2021 report of the NITI Aayog<\/strong> should be prioritized with respect to spatial <\/strong>\uff08<\/strong>town<\/strong>\uff09<\/strong> planning profession and education<\/strong>. Recent moves such as Gati Shakti and Model Rural Transformation Acts<\/strong> are a reflection of this.<\/p>\n

There is no need to go far for lessons to do this. Indian cities offer enough experiences to learn from.<\/p>\n

India must reimagine spatial planning<\/strong> to address the growing and emerging governance challenges of urbanisation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cThe master plan and the slaves\u201d published in The Hindu on 3th July 2023. Syllabus: GS1-Urbanization Relevance: \u00a0Urban planning News- Amitabh Kant, India\u2019s G20 Sherpa, stressed at a recent Urban-20 City Sherpas\u2019 meet that a master plan is crucial to manage urbanisation. Master Plan is an instrument… Continue reading The master plan and the slaves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,264,10498],"class_list":["post-250543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-society","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}