PMC will receive Swedish help in preparing the development plan
Times of India, PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has sought help from the Swedish International Co-operation Agency (SIDA) to prepare a Sustainable City Planning Project (SCPP), to be incorporated in the city’s Development Plan (DP), which is currently being re-drafted.
With instructions to focus on land-use and mobility planning, the SIDA has submitted its inception report (the project implementation plan), while the final action plan will be submitted by December 2009, after it passes through a series of phases.
Speaking to TOI, PMC development engineer Aniruddha Pawaskar said this is the first time the municipal corporation will receive international expertise in preparing the DP.
The last DP for the city was prepared in 1987. The PMC has already declared its intention to revise the DP according to the Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act. A resolution was made in the General Body in February 2007 and was published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette in December 2007.
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