Who is accountable for blunders in draft DP 2034 of Mumbai?

Citizens want accountability for the time lost in preparing the erroneous draft Development Plan (DP). 

BMC has spent Rs 5.5 crore on appointing a consultant to carry out surveys and preparing the Existing Land Use (ELU) plan and then the draft DP. For the first time, BMC even adopted a participatory approach, inviting objections and suggestions from citizens over the ELU plan and then even holding 20 workshops on how to prepare an inclusive draft DP. 
Not only were many of the errors in the ELU not corrected, these were incorporated into the draft DP. 

The New Link Road Residents' Association, for instance, had pointed out to the BMC that the ELU showed encroachments as legal entities. These encroachments were recorded by the state mangrove cell in its affidavit before the Bombay high court in a public interest litigation on protection of wetlands.

The draft DP, though, has marked Ganpat Patil Nagar in coastal regulation zone-I (CRZ-I) as a residential zone, an illegal parking lot as a bus terminus, and has even proposed a road through mangroves and over the high-tide line. Harish Pande, member of the New Link Road Residents' Forum, said his association spent Rs 2,500 on documentation alone. "What about the time and effort spent by ordinary citizens first to understand the ELU, then point out the errors and find they are not corrected in the draft DP, but rather sought to be legitimized? The officers responsible for this mess must be held to account,'' he said.


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