Metro Property Development
continues to be key determinant in DMP decisions, with inertial disregard of concerns raised by qualified planning professionals and citizens affected in terms of their DMP entitlements through due process of responses to Public Notices, etc.
Link: DMRC website - Property Development
Public Notice of December 2002
Proposal for DMP modification to allow metro property development already started, including on riverbed
- PUBLIC NOTICE: Downloaded image (Published version not known, briefly available on DDA website)
- RESPONSES: Two responses posted on enaction
- FOLLOW-UP: | 20.02.2003 onwards: inauguration by LG of metro PS at Depot > A young professional's poser: Is nothing sacred any more? | 07.03.2003 onwards: suggestion to start compliance of High Court order for clearance of all riverbed encroachments with Metro Depot | 25.12.2003 onwards: suggestion to shift metro / other property development seeking ridge / riverbed sites to Safdarjang / NCR | 28.01.2004: Standing Parliamentary Committee visit > 29.01.2004: Letter for hearing of views on functioning of DDA invited by notice of 22.06.2003, etc (forwarded for appropriate action to Secretary MoUD as per President Secretariat letter of 11.02.2004) | 06.02.2004: CM visit, also to u/c IT Park not covered by Public Notice > Connected to Pushta clearance communications | 13.05.2004: incorporated in response to Public Notice of April 2004
Public Notice of April 2004
Proposal for DMP modification to allow unfettered property development all along the metro corridor
- PUBLIC NOTICE: Published in The Economic Times of 17.04.2004 (Text)
- RESPONSES: | Gita Dewan Verma, Planner | Poonam Prakash, Planner | S C Gupta, Planner | E F N RIBIERO, Architect-cum-Planner
- FOLLOW-UP: | 06.06.2004: Letter for addition of NCMP-DMP note on industries | 23.06.2004: Letter for addition of NCMP-DMP note on informal sector | 26.06.2004: LG visit to Metro Depot | 15.10.2004: incorporated in response to Public Notice of September 2004
Public Notice of September 2004
Proposal for DMP modification to "regularize" metro property development on the riverbed
By DDA’s PUBLIC NOTICE of 18.09.04, Central Government has invited objections and suggestions on its “proposal” to change Master Plan land use on riverbed to “Commercial (IT Park)”, with “conditions” like “no further” residential development. This “proposal” is actually at an advanced stage of construction, continuing past this Public Notice, as evident from PHOTOGRAPHS of 16.10.2004 and a news report of 15.10.2004. There is some information on the DMRC WEBSITE about this project, started in the latter half of 2003 (ie, after the court order for clearing all riverbed encroachments, which is what this project is) and graced by a CHIEF MINISTERIAL VISIT on 05.02.2004 (ie, days before clearance of Yamuna Pushta began - diagonally across the river, beneath the non-conforming Secretariat where decisions to seal non-conforming industries are currently being taken and survey for further Pushta clearance is also underway).
CLEARANCE OF ALL METRO PROPERTY ENCROACHMENT on the riverbed has also been sought, especially since the court order for riverbed encroachments. This is a legitimate demand and if it seems odd that is only because of oddity of discourse that has made planned development law unspeakable phrase in pursuit of freewheeling options and is now left with no choice but to pragmatically root for “regularization” of the inequities and inefficiencies it has abetted - as in current demands for industries, hawkers, slums, unauthorized colonies, farmhouses, biodiversity parks, malls. (It is a facet of the same rooting discourse that creates riverbed furore about fully built temple and yet to happen Games Village but not metro property, obfuscates Master Plan imperatives with free-floating ideas for "new plan", calls for participation while ignoring Public Notices, etc).
By this Public Notice a new Government has chosen the old "pragmatic" discourse option of "regularizing" metro property encroachment on the riverbed. Many have chosen to respond to its choice with the legitimate demand, in context of DMP and NCMP, for encroachment removal and restoration of rule of law...
MPISG decided on 13.10.2004 to engage on this Public Notice in view of emerging "consensus" about "regularisation". About 200 responses were filed by groups in riverbed, ridge, resettlement areas and elsewhere and by those synergizing with them in professional capacity.
NOW TRACKING... RESPONSES | FOLLOW-UP
Gita Dewan Verma | Planner | 18.10.2004