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Time of India
14-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Multipurpose stadium, startup park & convention centre on PPP model get IDA approval
Indore: Indore Development Authority (IDA) has decided to develop a multipurpose stadium to provide space for big events, including music concerts, on approximately 22 acre on Super IDA board of directors, including Indore divisional commissioner Deepak Singh, collector Asheesh Singh, IMC commissioner Shivam Verma, and IDA CEO RP Ahirwar, took several key decisions regarding infrastructure development and public welfare projects in its meeting on Wednesday. A significant decision was made to construct a multipurpose stadium on the land reserved for a stadium located on Super Corridor. The board also resolved to issue an expression of interest (EoI) to seek approval from govt to undertake this project on a public-private partnership (PPP) board also approved certain proposed amendments related to the operation, maintenance, and upkeep of the inter-state bus terminal (ISBT) constructed under the authority's Scheme 139 and 169-A. In another decision, the board agreed to accept the highest bidder's proposal from the tenders received for the lease-cum-operation and maintenance of the senior citizen building on plot number RC-11 in Scheme 134. This decision paves the way for operation of the facility that was rented out at around Rs 3.5 lakh/ EoI for construction of Startup Park in Scheme 151 and 169-B, in line with the previously received approval for a PPP model, will also be issued. Construction of convention centre in Scheme 172 will also proceed on a PPP model, with the board approving the issuance of an EoI for this project as a move to support cultural events, the board sanctioned financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh to Devi Ahilya Janmotsav Samiti for the celebration of the 300th birth anniversary of Ahilyadevi board also decided to appoint a consultant for construction of residential buildings on plot number FP-422, covering an area of 1.613 hectare, in Town Planning Scheme (TPS)-08 under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) 2.0.
Indian Express
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
May not go ahead with town planning scheme if residents oppose: PCMC commissioner
EVEN as the civic administration of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation is getting ready to demolish as many as 34 structures within the blue floodline of Indrayani river at Chikhli, at the same time it has decided that it will not go ahead with the Town Planning Scheme if local residents are strongly opposed to it. 'If more than 50 per cent of the residents oppose the town planning scheme we will not go ahead with it,' Municipal Commissioner Shekhar Singh told this paper today. The PCMC administration has decided to implement the Town Planning Scheme in Kudalwadi and Chikhli areas besides Charholi area. In Chikhli and Kudalwadi areas, the PCMC had in a couple of months demolished as many as 4500 illegal structures including godowns. Last week, after PCMC declared its intention to implement the Town Planning Scheme in these suburbs, local residents protested. Santosh Tapkir, a resident of Charholi said,'Since the PCMC announced its intention to implement the Town Planning Scheme in our area, there is strong opposition from all local residents. Actually, there is not a single resident who is supporting the scheme. We have heard that PCMC will not go ahead with the scheme if 50 percent of residents oppose it…In our area, there is a hundred percent opposition. So we are hoping that the scheme will not be implemented in our area. If PCMC goes ahead, then it will face opposition from the residents.' Mangesh Mate, a farmer, said,'Charholi was included in PCMC in 1997 but the actual merger happened in 2007. Since then PCMC several farmers and residents in our Charholi area lost their land which became reserved in the development plan. We did not get compensation. Now when the PCMC is trying to implement the development plans, it is trying to bring in another scheme. If the TP scheme is implemented, it will require a long process to actually come into effect which will further delay the development of our area.' Mate alleged that the residents suspect that the scheme is intended to benefit some builders. 'We have serious doubts about the scheme. We believe that PCMC was holding a brief for some top builders. The scheme is not in our interest. It is in the interest of the builders,' he alleged. PCMC administration however said the aim of the TP scheme is to ensure proper development of the area. Officials said the PCMC intends to implement the TP scheme on 380 hectare land in Chikhali-Kudalwadi and 1425 hectare land in Charholi. Prasad Gaikwad, Deputy Director, Town Planning, PCMC, last week told this paper that the TP scheme is being implemented to ensure that these areas which had seen illegal structures do not again become such a thing again. Town Planning schemes have been implemented by PMRDA and Pune Municipal Corporation. 'They are the best way to ensure planned development without getting trapped into a lengthy land acquisition process. The PCMC will be benefiting by getting 15 per cent development land during this process,' he had said. Gaikwad said the Town Planning scheme will be handed over to the same builder which had been alloted the scheme in 2011. 'We intend to hand over the scheme to the same firm which had earlier carried out TP schemes in other places and which had been alloted the work earlier,' he said. Meanwhile, the PCMC commissioner said they would soon be demolishing 34 illegal bungalows which had come within the blue floodline of the Indrayani river. 'Now the Supreme Court has given its verdict, we will be demolishing the structures before the rain. ' Singh told The Indian Express on Tuesday. The 34 illegal bungalows will be constructed in 2020-21 in Chikhali area near Indrayani river. The National Green Tribunal had termed the bungalows as illegal as they were constructed within the blue flood line of the river. The residents had approached the Supreme Court which had stayed the NGT order in December last year. On May 5, the SC dismissed the plea of the residents. Along with the demolition, the residents have also been told to pay Rs 5 crore as environmental damage cost. Mahesh Patil, one of the affected residents, said now their only hope is in the order of the State Water Resources Ministry. 'The Ministry has ordered a re-survey of the floodline in Pimpri-Chinchwad. If a re-survey is conducted, we are hopeful of saving some of the structures. We have approached the PCMC as well as the state government in this regard,' he said.
