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    The document reviews the Dehradun Development Plan from 2005-2025. It finds that the plan did not follow proper guidelines and lacked elements like a clear vision, population and workforce estimates, and equitable distribution of facilities. It also did not sufficiently address issues like affordable housing, sanitation, and inclusion of marginalized groups. The plan has since been cancelled by the High Court in 2018 for not seeking proper approvals and allowing development in ecologically sensitive areas. In summary, the review finds the plan to be deficient in its approach, analysis, and coverage of key components compared to standard planning guidelines.

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    The document reviews the Dehradun Development Plan from 2005-2025. It finds that the plan did not follow proper guidelines and lacked elements like a clear vision, population and workforce estimates, and equitable distribution of facilities. It also did not sufficiently address issues like affordable housing, sanitation, and inclusion of marginalized groups. The plan has since been cancelled by the High Court in 2018 for not seeking proper approvals and allowing development in ecologically sensitive areas. In summary, the review finds the plan to be deficient in its approach, analysis, and coverage of key components compared to standard planning guidelines.

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    Review of Dehradun Development Plan -2005-2025

    Submitted By: Preeti Sinha


    2018PAR5272

    Defining Master Plan/ Development Plan

    "A Master Plan is the long term perspective plan for guiding the sustainable planned development of the
    city. This document lays down the planning guidelines, policies, and development code and space
    requirements for various socio-economic activities supporting the city population during the plan
    period. It is also the basis for all infrastructure requirements." (Delhi Development Authority)

    Master plan is a long term planning, generally for 20 years. It is also a comprehensive planning for
    service area as per likely spread of city in next 20 years. It describes all works required in next 20 years in
    phased manner. The designs and estimates are prepared approximately. It finalizes some of the main
    parameters so that advance action can be taken. (MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS)

    Master Plan for Dehradun, 2005-2025 is consistent with the provisions of Mussouri- Dehradun
    Development Act, 1984 which has been prepared by Dehradun Development Authority and approved by
    the Government of Uttrakhand under Department of Housing.

    Cancellation of Dehradun Master Plan 2005-2015

    The HC of Uttarakhand has cancelled the Dehradun Master Plan 2005-2025 and imposed a penalty on
    the officials in Jaunuary, 2018. During the preparation of the master plan, provisions of the existing Act
    of Uttar Pradesh were ignored along with the Central Government notifications of 1988 and 2001 in
    which the Dehradun valley had been declared an eco-sensitive zone. Considering this it was necessary to
    take the approval of the Central Government before implementing any such project. However, the State
    Government implemented the Dehradun master plan 2005-2025 without seeking approval of the
    Central Government. (Hindustan Times, 2015)

    Content of Dehradun Master Plan 2005-2015

    • Introduction
    • Review of Master Plan 2001
    • Population
    • Shelter
    • Economic Base

    1
    • Community Facilities
    • Traffic and Transportation
    • Land use
    • Zoning Regulations
    • Plan Implementation and Monitoring;

    From the content of the plan we can see that the master plan has not covered many of the components
    of the Master Plan as proposed and supposed to be in plan as provided in the Urban Regional
    Development Plans Formulation and Implementation (URDPFI) guidelines 2015.

    Content of Development Plan as per URDPFI Guidelines 2015

    • Existing Conditions and Development Issues


    • Assessment of Deficiencies and Projected Requirements
    • Vision and Mission
    • Development Proposals
    • Implementation Plan

    Analysis of Existing Scenario and Projected Requirements


    Development Issues
    Background Population

    Demographic Profile Economic base and employment


    Land Profile Shelter

    Economic Profile Transportation


    Infrastructure Profile Social Infrastructure
    Environmental Profile Physical Infrastructure
    Shelter (both formal and informal) Land use requirement
    Administrative profile
    Maps & Plans
    Gap analysis
    Source: URDPFI Guidelines, 2015

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    Critically analyzing the Master Plan through Some Indicators

    Categories BRIEF DESCRIPTION


    Vision • No clearly mentioned vision
    statement in the document.
    • The citizen were invited to
    participate in the objection and
    suggestion stage after the
    preparation of the plan and there is
    no evidence what they did with the
    objection and suggestions received
    from the public

    Aims and Objectives The document has not stated


    anywhere in the document what
    the plan aims to achieve through
    what sort of objectives.

    Approach/ Concept
    There is no scientific and systematic
    approach in the plan preparation.
    .
    Assessment of Future Population and Work There is no mention of any work/
    Requirements Force estimates studies during the plan preparation
    process.

    Housing Need • The housing supply has not


    been equitably worked out as there
    is no provision of low cost
    affordable housing schemes for
    urban poor in the town.
    • There is hardly any
    provision of other shelter options
    like night shelters in the plan.

    Sanitation There is no waste water treatment


    facilities mentioned in the
    document.

    Power Supply The plan does not allocate specified


    location of the future

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    infrastructures installation.

    Solid waste management Here no provision for sustainable


    solid waste management systems in
    the Plan including recycling options.
    Most of the solid waste is disposed
    in deep pits.
    Education, health, socio- The plan does not talk about the
    cultural and recreational equitable distribution of the
    facilities facilities but the facilities are
    distributed in the settlements to
    facilitate easy access.
    Inclusivity Marginalized groups/ population
    with special needs have been
    identified but in reality there are no
    such provisions like low cost
    housing for urban poor.

    Institutional Framework • Stakeholder Participation is


    only at draft stage and
    unaccounted participation at plan
    preparation period.
    • There is no such
    mechanism like focus group
    discussion; stratified sampling
    methods etch which can ensure
    that the public participation is
    represented from all levels of the
    society with respect to education,
    economic background, ethnicity,
    caste, religion, gender, age,
    occupation

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    Critical Inferences:

    The contents of the plan doesn’t match the contents as per mentioned in the URDPFI guidelines. The
    Master Plan document is available only in Hindi Language, which limits its usability by experts coming
    from other areas where Hindi is not their mother tongue. The planning document fails in many
    indicators of a good master plan of a city. It also lacks the systematic and rational approaches of
    planning. There is need for making the plan implementation and monitoring strong and systematic. The
    housing for urban poor is a neglected sector as there is not any concrete policy measure like time bound
    supply of affordable housing.

    The unregulated development of housing sector is consuming a large chunk of ecologically sensitive
    area without the permission due to which the master Plan has been scraped by HC in 2018.

    There is existence of non-hierarchical commercial centres like Malls which are not accommodated in the
    development controls and guidelines leading to unregulated growth and development in Dehradun. The
    issue of industries in Dehradun has been a subject of extensive debate, controversy and concern over
    the past decade but master plan fails to address it. Provision of creating new social infrastructure to
    meet the needs of the urban poor is missing and also there is no provision for wastewater is treatment
    and wastewater goes untreated in the water bodies. The master plan has no provision for controlling
    the unregulated growth of the mixed use is making many areas of the city congested and eroding the
    ambience of healthy social living conditions.

    Bibliography
    Delhi Development Authority. (n.d.). Retrieved from
    https://www.dda.org.in/planning/master_plans.htm.

    Hindustan Times. (2015, June 15).

    MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS, G. O. (n.d.). National Capital Region Planning Board.
    Retrieved from ncrpb.nic.in.

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