Hyderabad Extended Area Master Plan - Delayed. Use the opportunity to review status of your land.

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Approval of the master plan for the extended areas of Hyderabad Metropolitan Region is likely to be delayed further with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) planning to extend the last date for receiving objections and suggestions from citizens.

The HMDA has now reportedly taken a decision to extend the date to receive objections and suggestions to March 31 as it has to also draft the master plan in Urdu.This draft is to be displayed at all zonal offices apart from on the HMDA website for the convenience of the Urdu-speaking populace.

The draft master plan was released on July 22 of last year inviting objections and suggestions from residents of 35 mandals under its jurisdiction.The deadline has been extended four times with the latest one set to expire on February 21.

The decision to have the master plan translated into Urdu was taken by chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy during an HMDA board meeting in January.Mayor Majid Hussain had requested at the meeting that the master plan be made available in Urdu which is also an official language in Andhra Pradesh.Thereupon,the CM directed that the master plan be translated into Urdu.
As translation work is critical and loaded with jargon,the process is not likely to be completed before March 1.

Another reason for the delay could be that district-level meetings on the master plan have not been wrapped up yet by HMDA.Meetings have been completed in the districts of Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda but yet to take place in Ranga Reddy and Medak.There are demands that the consultative meetings be conducted at the mandal level as against the zonal level.But HMDA,it was learnt,is not keen on organising mandal-level consultations.

Most complaints have been found to be on land use where residential areas have been placed in industrial,manufacturing and conservation zones. Road-widening proposals, erroneous survey data and demands for access points to service roads connecting to the Outer Ring Road,too,are among issues that the HMDA has to address.

The HMDA will collate objections after the deadline has passed and send them to the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD ) department for a decision, a planning department official said.

Comment :
If you had bought land in outskirts, its very important to review the situation in Master Plan. Its easy to get things corrected now, than later, when plan is approved.

There could be Land use Zonal issues ("agricultural" instead of residential or commercial) , proposed roads, public amenities etc.

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