Thiruvananthapuram: The spatial plan will be formulated immediately for the census city including part or fully in 27 Grama Panchayats in this district.
In total, the Chairperson of Planner Town has submitted a list of 323 Panchayats Grama throughout the state where census cities have been included as urban areas for the formulation of spatial plans.
The master plan, zoning regulations and city planning has now been made for city corporations and four urban local agencies in this district.
Draft Master City Corporation’s plan for 2040 was awaiting a discussion at the Corporate Council.
In accordance with the amendments to the City and State Planning Law, the census city in Grama Panchayat, which shows the urban characteristics have been identified for spatial planning.
The action also included the scope of spatial planning.
The local government department (LSGD) has recently issued a census city mapping order which states that there is a need to prioritize Panchayat grams that can be considered for the thematic sectoral plan that has been proposed in the Ambit of the ‘Rebuild Kerala’ initiative.
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The spatial plan is being promoted as a powerful tool to deal with climate change, a better preparation mechanism for disaster management and thus reduce the impact on disaster affected people, the Order said.
Officials said city laws and state planning provide provisions to prepare Panchayats gram plans, but have not been applied.
“Currently Grama Panchayats with census cities that show urban nature have been mapped.
The spatial plan will be prepared in stages and priorities will be repaired based on population density in every pancida,” said a senior city planning official related to the project.
According to government orders issued in this matter, Grama Panchayats has been identified as a census city because this local body tends to be the center of its own population and shows the characteristics of their own urban activities.
This means that such panchayats must be considered an urban area for spatial plan formulations.
The government recently passed the Chief Town planner to map the census city to Panchayats as it was completely or partially in it.
Census cities meet three-fold urban criteria related to the population, density and major workforce involved in non-agricultural activities.
This includes a minimum population of 5,000; At least 75 percent of the men’s main work population involved in non-agricultural pursuits and a minimum population density of 400 people per square km.
According to the 2011 census, six districts have urban populations above 50%.