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Damage
control after leak leaves govt. red-faced
The
HARYANA government had hired a private agency to redraft the
Gurgaon Master Plan 2021. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh
Hooda has quashed the plan after report of information leakage.
The agency will now conduct a detailed study and then assist the
town & Country Planning department in reformulating the Master
Plan in two months time.
Unlike the
earlier one, the new plan would propose integrated development in
Gurgaon and Maneser. The Town Planning department wants to finish
off the matter as quickly as possible to salvage the situation.
The Haryana CM tried to hush up the controversy y saying that it
was not the Master Plan but a general environment impact study of
Gurgaon that was leaked.
Last week,
Hooda, who was in town to inaugurate some development projects,
admitted that there had been an goof-up but said that this could
be the handiwork of some people who wanted to use the Master Plan
for their interested. There were reports that some officials of
the Town Planning department and the Haryana Urban Development
Authority were involved in the information leak.
Town planning
director SS Dhillon said that the private agency that has been
hired for the job would conduct a detailed study on the
demographics, geographic aspects, traffic population and various
other aspects of Gurgaon and Manesar. “It’s will submit the
report to the town planning department in two months,” said
Dillon adding that the job would cost the government Rs 22 lakh.
Sources in district administration claimed that final draft of the
Gurgaon Master Plan 2021 that sent to Haryana CM by the District
Town & Country Planning department in June 2005 for approval
had been sold to land mafia. The plan had extensive details on the
development projects in existing urban areas as well as expansion
plans of the urban area by acquiring additional land of
surrounding villages.
The drafts were
also signed by the chairman of the district committee R.P.
Bhardwaj who is also the district magistrate of Gurgaon. However,
he claims that he had not gone through the draft of the plan that
he had signed. Recently when he asked the DTCP officials to show
the blue pint of the plan, they refused to oblige.
by
Sanjeev K. Ahuja, Gurgaon (Hindustan Times) 27 Feb 2006
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