Chennai: When Greater Chennai Corporation plans more public infrastructure in crowded partners, engineers have begun to face serious space crunches even in areas where the city’s master plan has land intended for these projects.
According to sources, the Civic body has planned and began executing work on the bridge over the Otteria Nolah at Stephenson Road in the Pay.
This project is expected to increase the flow of traffic in the area and have a separate cycling path on the bridge, bringing cheering to the population.
However, the project has stopped when the developer has not submitted some of the land, which falls in front of their project, is needed on one side of the bridge.
Incidentally, such land parcels have been intended as ‘road alignment’ in the second parent plan by the Metropolitan Development Authority Chennai (CCDA).
Classification means that the land will be backed by developers or residents to the CMDA and then GCC for widening roads, bridge construction or similar public infrastructure projects.
Instead, transferral development rights (TDR) are given to developers for use elsewhere in the city.
The catch is that land must be given as a gift when developers seeking building permits.
The GCC source said in this case related to the Nolah Otteri Bridge, the developer has not provided land to citizenship agencies stating that they have not been seeking to build permits.
“Even though the land will eventually come to GCC, we cannot move forward with the current project,” said an official.
The GCC has written to the CMDA requesting clarification if the land package can be used now because it has been marked in the master plan.
Civic’s body encountered a similar problem in the Kalimman Koil Street widening project in Virugambakkam, an important highway in the area.
The road alignment area extended into the living room in several houses, on the stretch of an official said, submitting a challenge to the project that had worked for years now.