Different types of planning undertaken by the state and central government for the development of new cities and towns.

1. Regional Planning
BY VIGNESHWARAN
MSWA-16-42

2. Town and Country
Planning

3. DTCP Activities
Preparation of Plans
(a) Regional Plan
(b) Master Plan/New Town
Development Plan.
(c) Detailed Development
Plan (DD Plan)
Planning
Permissions
• Layouts, including
modifications of existing
Layouts
• Sub-division of house-sites
• Building of any nature,
including modifications
• Variations to existing land
use
Projects
• Heritage town
development plan
• Comprehensive traffic and
transport study and Traffic
operational and
Management plan
• Park development
programme
• Infrastructure and
Amenities Charges

4. Basic Overview of DTCP

5. Preparation of Plans
Regional Plan
 Housing & Regional Planning Panel (1955) of the Planning Commission.
 In Tamil Nadu the state has been demarcated into eight regions.
Based on
Geographical Boundary, Resource Base, Market Potential And Facilities, Population Threshold.
Master Plan/New Town Development Plan (Macro Approach)
 Land use plan prepared for towns with regulatory guidelines to ensure orderly development of the
planning area.
 Aims at land use regulations and provision of effective road network, fixing alignment of bye-pass
roads, ring roads.
Detailed Development Plan (Micro Approach)
 Prepared for areas vulnerable for rapid development.
 The plan contains zoning of land in detail for specific land use, infrastructural facilities like park and
play fields, small link roads, roads for proper traffic circulation, public purposes, commercial and
industrial areas

6. Planning Permissions
 Town and Country Planning Act 1971 under section 2(b) of 49 requires that any one who
wants to develop any land or building should take a planning permission before
commencement of the development work.
 The Local Planning Authority after issuing planning permission send the plan to the local body
for issue of license made under Local bodies Act
Acts
 Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971
 The Tamil Nadu Survey and Boundaries Act 1923
 The Tamil Nadu Public Buildings (Licensing) Act 1965
 The Tamil Nadu Apartment Ownership Act 1994
 The Tamil Nadu Lifts Act 1997

7. Water-Shed Planning

8. Tamil Nadu Watershed Development
Agency
 Agency is functioning under the administrative control of Government in Agriculture Department
and an independent and autonomous authority vested with full executive and financial powers.
 To develop the Waste Land Programmes and Watershed development Programmes.
Common Programmes
 National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas(NWDPRA)
 Watershed Development Fund (WDF) and
 Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP).
Nodal and Implementing Agency
 NADP
 National Food Security Mission (NFSM),
 Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA),
 AGRISNET and National Project on Management of Soil Health & Fertility.

9. Development Projects and Activities
 Distribution of Government Wasteland to Landless Poor Agricultural Labour Families.
Category of Lands
 Category I : Government wastelands without any encroachment.
 Category II : Government wastelands under encroachment by small and marginal farmers.
 Category III : Private patta waste lands of small and marginal farmers.
Achievements
 Land Development.
 Development of land parcels of 10 acre and above
 Development of Horticulture crops in private patta wastelands along with punjai lands in a
cluster of 50 acre and above.
 Development of Agriculture crops in private patta wastelands along with punjai lands in a
cluster of 50 acre and above.

10. Cont’d
 National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas.
 Watershed Development Fund assisted by NABARD
 Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP).
 DROUGHT PRONE AREAS PROGRAMME (DPAP)
Land Development Works
 Land Leveling, Contour Bunding,
 Silt Application, Stone Bunding,
 Retaining Wall, Summer Ploughing,
 Vegetative Bunding and Continuous trenching.
Water Development Works
 Cattle Pond, Farm Pond, Formation of Oorani, Desilting of Tanks,
 Formation of Supply Channel and desilting, Check Dams, Percolation
 Pond and Development of Drinking Water Resources

11. Why Floods?
 In Mumbai, flooding was caused by wrong developments at the Bandra estuary and
negligence along the Mithi river.
 In Uttarakhand the disaster was caused by unplanned regional development and the unholy
nexus between the land mafia and politicians.
 The Srinagar valley suffers from an unfortunate geographical disadvantage of being the
recipient of water from an enormous watershed above the valley.
 In Delhi, the two governments are merrily building on the city’s flood plains, ignoring the
ministry of environment, which is supposed to protect the Delhi Ridge and the Yamuna river.
 Calcutta’s new growth is entirely in the wetland area, creating multiple infrastructure barriers for
surface water flow from the mother city, which in any case has a lower elevation than the
Hooghly river.
 Bangalore’s expansion had been at the cost of an elaborate pond system in the sub-region, a
majority of the scattered ponds being built upon by land sharks.

12. Some Facts
 The shocking news that only 4087 lakes out of the 14098 lakes in the Chennai Metro City,
which are under the PWD (Public Works Department) are maintained by PWD, came to be
revealed only a few years ago as registered in one of the files maintained by PWD. The
register mentions that over 10000 lakes are under the control of illegal encroachers.
 At present, CMWSSB pays Rs 60 per kilo litre for the water from Minjur, up from Rs 48 per
kilolitre that it paid when the facility began operating in 2010. This works out to Rs 60 lakh
for 100 mld of water. Water from the Nemmeli plant costs around Rs 30 per kilolitre. "We're
able to do this because the state is rich. I don't know if it's feasible in other states," a senior
official said.
 At present, TN accounts for 24% of the total desalinated water capacity in India, second only
to Gujarat. Experts meanwhile describe desalination as a "last option". S Janakarajan,
professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, says that seawater desalination was
conceived for rich, rain-starved countries like those in West Asia

13. Cont’d
 The supply of Krishna river water from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh under the Telugu
Ganga project has been suspended for more than two months now. Chennai's nodal agency
for water distribution, CMWSSB, has been coercing farmers in neighbouring districts to sell
Chennai their water.Officials are also trying to sourcing water from stone quarries 23km from
the city

14. AGRO Climatic Regional Planning
 The Agro-climatic Regional Planning is a distinctive Planning approach which aims at
development of resources in an integrated and sustainable manner, optimum utilization of
resources and micro level strategy for each of the Agro climatic zones.
 To achieve best trade off between maximization of productive efficiency of given resource
endowments, through use of appropriate technology and institution and long term sustainability
of such resources.
 Use of information on soil, water etc. and of climatic factors such as temperature rainfall provides
a sound basis for agriculture planning.
 The approach was initiated in July, 1987 with division of the country into 15 agro-climatic zones
and formation of zonal planning Teams.
 The major components of the project are soil and water management, field
 The Agro-Climatic Regional Planning Project aims at crop improvement, horticulture
development and animal resource development.

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