Amendments to IDO awaits council’s nod

A set of amendments to the Interim Development Order (IDO), which governs the awarding of constructing permits and every kind of land use within the metropolis within the absence of a sanctioned grasp plan, is now ready for the clearance of the brand new metropolis Corporation council.

The amendments to the IDO have been hanging hearth for someday, and failed to cross the final assembly of the earlier council, because the opposition demanded extra readability on the identical.

The amendments had been proposed contemplating the problems confronted by fairly a number of metropolis residents whose lands had been wrongly marked as meant for public use or as paddy fields or included in particular zones, making it not possible for them to get constructing allow purposes. In such circumstances, the file has to be forwarded to the Regional Town Planner’s workplace for clearance.

The amendments had been meant to simplify this course of and take such choices on the Corporation itself.

Meanwhile, the Town Planning Department has virtually accomplished the draft of the grasp plan, which additionally has to be cleared by the Corporation council.

Almost full

“Though the draft is almost complete, we have to hold some more discussions with the new administration which has taken charge at the Corporation. We have to get the opinions of the councillors especially regarding the zoning regulations, which have now been made based on our own technical study as well as the suggestions garnered from the ward sabhas initially.

These zoning regulations are subject to the council’s approval.

The Corporation will also decide whether more ward sabhas have to be conducted to discuss the new changes to the regulations. We have got in touch with the town planning standing committee chairperson of the Corporation, who said that we can hold a discussion on the master plan soon,” stated a city planning division official.