Central Vista project | DDA proposes land use change for PMO project
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A senior DDA official, nonetheless, stated that the plots listed for change of land use had been listed as per data of the city physique
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on February 27 proposed altering the land use of 4 plots – two meant for the development of the brand new Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) as part of the Central Vista redevelopment project and two as compensation for the inexperienced area misplaced because of the change of the opposite two.
In its public discover inviting objections for a interval of 30 days, the DDA proposed altering the land use of two plots of 9.5 acres every positioned between Motilal Nehru Marg and K. Kamraj Marg (plot 38) and between Dalhousie Road and Tu-Tu Road (plot 36) from leisure use (district park) to authorities workplace within the Masterplan for Delhi-2021. These plots have been proposed for use for the brand new PMO as part of the redevelopment of Central Vista by the Centre.
As part of the project, a brand new Parliament constructing is being constructed, the Central Vista Avenue is being redeveloped and new secretariat buildings, Prime Minister’s residence and Vice-President’s residence have been proposed.
Also, in its February 27 discover, the DDA proposed altering the land use of a 12.8 acre plot positioned between Dalhousie Road and Tyagraj Road (plot 30B) and 6.54 acre in Chandrawal, close to Civil Lines from authorities workplace and residential respectively to “recreational (district park)”.
Reacting to the event, architect and member of the residents’ collective LokPATH Madhav Raman stated on Tuesday: “It appears that, in the context of the Central vista redevelopment project, the DDA persists in playing fast and loose with the basic tenets of statutory master planning, which is its constitutional mandate.”
During the authorized problem to the change in land use for the Central Vista project final yr, the federal government’s submission to the Supreme Court had proven plot 30B already as “recreational [district park] landuse”, he stated.
“It is currently used to house government offices in temporary barrack structures. This proposed land use change sets a dangerous precedent because it means that if a plot of land is occupied long enough in violation of the statutory Masterplan land use, it can arbitrarily be regularised by putting false information about its current statutory land use in the public domain by the statutory authority itself,” Mr. Raman stated.
A senior DDA official, nonetheless, stated that the plots listed for change of land use had been listed as per data of the city physique.
“Plots 38 and 36 are recreational [district parks] ones and land use will be changed to government office while land use for 30B will be changed from government office to recreational (district park). The data provided has been authorised and is according to the requisite records maintained by the DDA,” the official stated.
The official added that the plot in Chandrawal could be part of compensatory land use modifications.
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