A word of praise for PMC, the municipal corporation of this city. PMC's effort to use SimCity Societies gaming to provide a vision for the masterplan of this city may be questionable. But PMC's support for 'Existing Landuse Survey' (ELU) by various citizen's groups is laudable.
The exercise was undertaken as a part of two day workshop on citizen's participation in preparation of Development Plan (DP).
The workshop was conducted under the initiative of of the 'National Society for Clean Cities' (NSCC). It was facilitated by the Centre of Development Studies and Activities (CDSA) http://www.cdsaindia.org/.
The participaton was about 100 strong in groups of 10. Each group was given a part of the city map. The groups conducted a survey to find out what exactly existed on ground as against things shown on the map.
The effort was to educate the citizens of the process of verifying the ELU survey. The PMC has promised a citizen's role in ELU , being conducted by an arm of the PMC.
This is one masterplan that would be eagerly awaited. Pune being one of the most Industrialized hubs of the country with a large community of IT industry and professionals. It is also the hub for Automobile manufacturing in India. Pune is located in close proximity with Mumbai in the western part of the country. The maserplan is of more importance because of the failure of Bangalore to keep up with the infrastructure requirements...Bangalore being the other major hub for IT industries along with centres like Hydrabad, Mumbai and Delhi.
Way to go !
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