Accept feedback on Draft Master Plan till August 31, BJP urges VMRDA

The BJP leaders have requested the Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) to present an additional 45 days, till August 31, for speaking objections and recommendations on the Draft Master Plan-2041.

Addressing the media right here on Saturday, former BJP MLA P. Vishnu Kumar Raju stated that the 30 days interval given is inadequate, retaining the COVID-19 pandemic in view. The deadline expires on July 15.

“These plans affect the lives of over 7.5 million people living in the districts of Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram and are prepared for the next 30 years. Hence sufficient time should be given for the people to respond,” he stated.

MLC P.V.N. Madhav identified that the same old and scientific strategy is {that a} perspective plan is first ready and permitted by the federal government and based mostly on the identical a draft grasp plan has to ready for approval. But on this case the VMRDA has hurriedly revealed each the Draft Perspective Plan and the Draft Master Plan concurrently throughout the pandemic interval. “It was notified on June 16, when partial curfew was still in force,” he stated.

The BJP leaders, together with M. Raveendra and Suhasini Anand, stated that no bodily copies in type for books have been made accessible and the paperwork and plans have been solely displayed on-line, which is troublesome for widespread man to obtain and browse because of the enormous file measurement. Moreover, the plans are additionally not clear, they stated.

The BJP leaders identified that the VMRDA was nonetheless importing data and that is complicated the individuals. Moreover, a number of paperwork comparable to zoning and improvement haven’t been uploaded in full, they stated.

They stated that the doc is uploaded in English language and demanded that or not it’s uploaded in Telugu additionally.

The color coding in some paperwork are wrongly depicted, as hills are proven as agricultural lands and vice-versa. These discrepancies have to be corrected and uploaded for higher understanding, stated Mr. Raju.

There can also be no paperwork exhibiting survey numbers, sub-divisions and extents of land being misplaced by residents, which is essential for individuals to grasp to lift their objections, the BJP leaders stated.

Before approving the current draft grasp plan there’s a have to evaluate the standing of roads. Most of the roads proposed in earlier grasp plans have been dropped within the subsequent grasp plans. The planners want to present a severe thought to this facet to keep away from an analogous state of affairs for the current plan, stated Mr. Madhav.

According to Mr. Vishnu Kumar Raju, Visakhapatnam metropolis is a north-south oriented linear metropolis, however whereas planning the street community this essential issue, appears to have been missed out. Visakhapatnam has many main roads working parallel to one another like Beach Road, National Highway, Anakapalle- Anandapuram Road, Kothavalasa –Vizianagaram Road. Connecting these roads there are lots of roads from east to west route that are slim. The grasp plan-2041 as an alternative of proposing to widen these roads to 80 or 100 ft has proposed many inexperienced area roads unnecessarily. Most of those new roads can’t be shaped on floor on account of hurdles and additional forming these will result in enormous monetary prices and human struggling. A floor inspection report associated all main roads proposed must be ready and solely virtually doable roads needs to be depicted within the plan, stated Mr. Raju and Madhav.

According to them, the VMRDA appears to have superimposed the plans on the Google Map. A duplicate of the superimposed plan on Google has be made public for higher understanding on the brand new proposed roads, growth of roads and zoning particulars, they stated.