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"Spatial Planning beyond boundaries"Documentation
Dialogue on a Regional Planning approach at the District level
6th and 7th September 2017India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
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Project description The Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammen-arbeit (GIZ), are jointly implementing ‘Land Use Planning and Management’ Project in the two states of Odisha and Tamil Nadu with an objective to ‘apply instru-ments of integrated spatial and land use planning in India’ under the framework of Indo-German Technical Cooperation.
ResponsibleGeorg Jahnsen, New Delhi
Photo credits/sources:GIZ/Felix Knopf
On behalf ofGerman Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)Division 223 India; South Asia
GIZ is responsible for the content of this publication.
New Delhi 2017
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Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Agenda 5
The Idea of Spatial District Planning 6
Spatial Planning in Tamil Nadu 8
Spatial Planning in Odisha 9
District Planning in Ganjam, Odisha 10
Contemporary urbanization as unregulated growth in India: The story of census towns 11
Example of Germany: Düsseldorf District 12
Working tables - Day 1 14
Working tables - Day 2 - Ideas that fly 16
Challenges and discussion points 18
Feedback 20
Requests from participants to GIZ 21
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Introduction
Growing urbanisation requires us to preserve a healthy balance between nature, rural settlements and urban regions, including the market driven peri-urban growth. There is a constitutional mandate to generate spatial planning in each district, but we still witness haphazard developments. The question that arises is how and why spatial planning is contained within boundaries, when economic development goes beyond. Department of Land Resources (DoLR) of Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India and GIZ are collaborating for a land use planning and management project which aims at developing policies and norms for district spatial planning as well as building capacities of state planning institutions.
Revenue & Disaster Management Department and Housing & Urban Development Department of Odisha as well as Planning and Special Initiatives Department of Tamil Nadu are partnering for the implementation of the cooperation project at selected districts.
In this context, a two day workshop “Spatial Planning: Beyond Boundaries was held in New Delhi, September 6-7 2017. The workshop intends to bring together experts and actors in the field of spatial planning to discuss how the mechanisms described above are working in India today and how new coordination mechanisms for land use planning can be implemented.
The Indo-German Dialogue on “Spatial Planning beyond Boundaries?” seeks to address the following questions:
• How can spatial planning contribute in strengthening the balance between “the natural”, “the rural” and “the urban” beyond boundaries?
• What is the right scale of work for such spatial planning?
• Why is spatial planning beyond boundaries required?
• What are the components to be considered in such planning areas?
• Where is the gap in the spatial planning system beyond boundaries?
• How can the existing provision of a district planning in India contribute in this regard?
The Indo-German Dialogue offers a unique perspective by bringing together multiple stakeholders and experts including spatial planning, public officials, consultants and academics to explore spatial land use planning into a workshop environment with rich discussions.
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AgendaWednesday, 6.9.17
09:00 Arrival and Registration10:00 Welcoming Note by Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Ministry of Rural Development, Gov ernment of India10:15 Mr. Georg Jahnsen: Welcoming Note and Introduction to GIZ Land Use Planning and Management project10:30 Ms. Dr. Beela Rajesh: “Current planning practices and challenges in Tamil Nadu” 11:00 Tea break11:30 Mr. Ranjan Mallick: “Land Use Planning on the ground: Ganjam District, Odisha”11:45 Mr. Subhendra Mishra: “Current planning practices and challenges in Odisha”12:00 Ms. Dr.-Ing. Manisha Jain: “The Rural-to-Urban transformation: The example of NCR”13:00 Lunch14:30 4 Working tables: “Current planning practices on different levels”How is suitable land for development identified? Who decides on land use changes? Who has the required in-formation? What is going well, where are the challenges?
Table 1: CentralTable 2: StateTable 3: District
Table 4: Block/Panchayat/ULB
16:00 Short presentation of each table17:00 End of day 1
Thursday, 7.9.17
09:00 Re-cap and warm-up: Summary of the previous day09:15 Christoph van Gemmeren: “Regional planning in Germany. The example of Düsseldorf Region”10:15 Fishbowl Discussion: “Reflections on the German example” 11:00 4 Working tables “Desired future planning practices on different levels”Focussing on spatial planning beyond boundaries, what kind of plan do we need? How would we use the plan? Who plans and who will work with the plan? Who should possess of land information?
Table 1: CentralTable 2: StateTable 3: District
Table 4: Block/Panchayat/ULB
12:30 Preparation for Gallery walk13:00 Lunch14:00 Welcome to Secretaries14:15 Gallery walk on outputs15:00 Tea break
15:30 Fishbowl Discussion: “Way forward for better Land Use Governance”
16:30 Closing remarks by Georg Jahnsen
Moderation: Stefan Gebert
The Idea of Spatial District Planning
States have visions. In the case of Odisha State, which is a less urbanized (15% as against national level of 31%), one of the visions could be to promote inclusive urbanization. These visions are political whereas administrative decisions and the role of Spatial Planners is limited to analyzing the potentials, opportunities, spatial patterns, issues, risks and challenges and give alternative solutions to assist the decision making process.
The state visions, framed by the government, are translated into policies and programs by various sectoral de-partments include Roads, Industries, Urban Development, Tourism, Commerce, etc. Besides development pro-grams, there are also protected areas where development is restricted such as forests, sea coasts, natural reserves, and sanctuaries.
In most of the cases, the policies and programs are given in a written form and there is no platform where these policies are translated into their spatial implications. A spatial plan provides such a platform. It analyses the impact of policies and programs on land, land use, networks and nodes (urban and rural settlements). It also indicates spatial inequalities and conflicts created by policies and programs. The next set of questions which arise is in regard to the appropriate level of planning and the planning process:
• should the spatial plan be prepared at the state, district or block level? and• should the planning process be top-down or grassroots-up?
Under the democratic set up, a plan evolves from the grassroots level incorporating the ground realities and needs at the lowest administrative unit, for example panchayat in rural areas or municipality in urban areas. These plans are then aggregated as block plan. All block plans are further aggregated as district plan and, finally, the state plan evolves as an aggregation of all district plans. A good practical spatial plan is one that takes both
the ways into account. In such a planning process the vision is formulated at the state level, it is discussed at the district level to formulate the district vision incorporating its unique opportunities, potentials and issues. The district vision is then discussed at the grassroots level and wishes, aspirations and priorities of people and other stakeholders are identified and conflicts, if any, are resolved and the panchayat/municipality plan is prepared. The process of judicious assembling of plan continues upwards. This is where the district level gains importance; it is an intermediate level which is suitable for this kind of balancing of interests and integration of plans of both urban and rural local bodies. District Spatial Planning is translation of different sectoral policies into a spatial set. It also irons out the conflicts between different sectors like:
• environment and industries• industries and agriculture• agriculture and urban development
In a district plan, priority zones for various sectors can be defined, like agriculture priority zones for food secu-rity, urban development priority zones or corridors of urbanisation or environment protection priority zones. However, for implementation, details like the exact location and boundaries of different policy zones are need-ed. These boundaries can be decided to some extent at the block level and to an exact definition at panchayat or municipal level. In this manner, state and sectoral policies are translated into a spatial plan, which becomes a guiding document for making decisions and creation of various sub-plans including infrastructure development plans, master plans of settlements and zonal plans, etc.
Based on Dr. Kulshrestha at the Fishbowl disscussion on 8th September 2017
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Spatial Planning in Tamil Nadu
Ms. Dr. Beela Rajesh, IAS Commissioner Town and Country Planning, Housing & Urban Development Department, Govt. of Tamil Nadu
Basics of planning in Tamil Nadu
• Tamil Nadus area is about 1,30,058 km2 and it is split under two authorities: Chennai Metropolitan Deverl-opment Authority (CMDA), which covers 1,189 km2 of the state; the rest of the area is with the Directorate of Town and Country Planning (DTCP).
• As per Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, we have three planning instruments: Regional Plan, Master Plan and Detailed Development Plan.
• The process of preparing a Masterplan is very time consuming. We try to streamline this process.
• Detailed Development Plans are mostly prepared within the jurisdiction of a Masterplan.
• What is still missing in Tamil Nadu are notified Regional Plans. We have now agreed on six viable regions, for which Regional Plans should be prepared within a time frame of two years.
Accesibility and awareness
• The plans should be accessible for the common man and thus, must be in a digital form. This should be in line with the digitization process of other departments.
• There is a lack of awareness amongst the public about the necessity for planning. The public must be more involved in the planning processes, also to understand better the building rules. This will facilitate the en-forcement of plans.
Building approvals
• As a result of the present complexity of getting building approvals, people prefer to build in the non-planned areas, to avoid reclassification, etc. Nowadays, 70% of new constructions and developments are unautho-rized. Our goals are to (1) bring the entire state under planned area and (2) to ensure transparent and speedy approvals of max. 30 days
• Banks are starting to insist on building approval as they need security
Existing Capacity
• We do not have sufficient town planners in the state (530 out of 800). That is why we need a common cadre of town planners, which will be formulated by us. Town planners should not only sit at the state, but also at the local bodies.
• There are very few qualified consultants in place, so we use mostly the same consultants for different assign-ments
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Spatial Planning in Odisha
Mr. Subhendra Mishra Chief Town Planner and Director Town Planning, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Govt. of Odisha
Basics of planning in Odisha
• There are two important set of acts in the field of planning in the state: Orissa Development Authority Act from 1982, which covers 9 Development Authorities. Orissa Town Planning and Improvement Trust Act from 1956, under which 7 Regional Improvement Trusts and 47 Special Planning Authorities are in place.
• Statutory planning instruments in the state are Comprehensive Development Plan, Masterplans, Zonal Plan, Local Area Plans, TP Schemes and Improvement Schemes. The scales are 1:4000 / 1:2000 and show cadastrial details.
• There is no statute to provide a Regional Plan. We are trying to introduce regional planning by enacting the Regional Plan.
• 16.63 % of the population stay in urban areas. This is a very low urbanization, compared to the national average of 31 %. Though we see that low urbanization is an advantage for us, we see the challenges of ur-banization coming up now. Therefore, Layout plans to implement masterplans became mandatory in 2015.
Digitization of maps and data dissemination
• Spatial Data Bank with DTP as Nodal Officer and monitored by ORSAC (Orissa Space Application Centre) was created to facilitate spatial data to other departments.
• Today, there is a digital database for 20 towns made by ORSAC, 58 more towns are under preparation
• We have decided to prepare Masterplans based on GIS for all 113 towns in the state
Building approvals
• We have rules which allow the accredition of technical third parties for building plan approvals and building audits.
• Spatial planning shall also be included in the Panchayati Raj Act, in order to control development in the rural areas.
Existing Capacity
• There are 190 out of 350 staff in the Directorate of Town Planning, out of which there are 20 District Offi-cers. In total there are 7 (out of 30 needed) Planners at the Directorate
• Although we are few in numbers, DTP is trying to expand its field and to become a front runner in the field of planning. Shortage of man power is not neccesarily a constraint, if the Department is supporting.
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District Planning in Ganjam, Odisha
Mr. Ranjan Mallick Managing Partner with Geo Spatial Solution, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Spatial Planning
• We understand spatial planning as a much wider concept than only urban planning, which focuses on re-source allocation and investment in a planned framework
• Sectors have their own demands and approaches. We give equal importance to all departments and sectors, in both rural and urabn areas in order to achieve a sustainable development.
Ganjam District Plan
• This plan will come from the bottom up through a participative approach.
• We also follow an integrated approach in order to balance the interests on how to apply, allocate and utilize the land, and estimate resource allocation for present and future demands.
• The steps for plan preparation are: literature review, secondary data and gap analysis, reconnaissance survey, preparation of base map, consultations with different levels of planning from village to district level, sectoral mapping and analysis.
• The scale of the plan must depend upon the area. For the district level, a scale of 1:50,000 is envisaged.
• Flood zones will be assessed and and be part of the districts’ hazard management. The district is the adequate level to respond to disasters like floods with a planning approach.
Comments and Suggestions from the audience
• The Kerala Integrated Decentralised District Planning is a valuable example which should be referred to. It helps in formulating a vision for the district plan. At the moment, a vision is not visible which leads to the question where will you come out with this plan?
• A reference to the 73rd and 74th Amendment Act, Constitution of India must strengthen, as village and dis-trict planning are addressed.
• The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has urban and rural development guidelines and also defined plan-ning scales for different levels, including the district.
• Odisha has six agro-climatic zones which are already defined.
• Also do not forget the planning, it is not only a mapping job, but a planning job. District planning is not mapping data, it is a planning job and about how do you visualize the future. Projections should include future hierarchies of cities.
• Livelihood and socio-economics of the people must be considered, to make it a peoples’ plan
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Contemporary urbanization as unregulated growth in India: The story of census towns
Ms. Dr.-Ing. Manisha Jain Post Doc Resource Efficiency of Settlement Structures, Leibniz-Institute of Ecological Urban and Rural Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
Research on census towns
• Census towns are urban areas, which are not notified with a formal municipal body but remain under rural governance. As a result, the real level or urbanization is not reflected in the governance system: Unacknowl-edged urbanization
• It is acknowledged that unregulated growth in agglomeration might weaken the economies of agglomera-tions
• Census towns are more urban than statutory towns, in terms of basic services (like water supply and sanita-tion), higher literacy rate and higher emplyment rate in the non-agricultural sector.
• Detailed research on 4 census towns: Tosham, Neemarana, Aurangabad Gadana, Khanpur Dhani. The de-classification of a municipal corporation to a census town caused degredation.
Findings and recommendations
• Rural areas with economic potential located in close proximity to highways, and to prosperous cities are transforming into census towns
• Census town’s growth is crucial for Indian urbanization, which is unable to absorb rural unskilled migrants
• Funds which the state government receives for the rural area are much higher than those for the urban area. Due to vested interests of state government (ceding power, loss of revenue), these towns retain rural status despite its urban characteristics.
• Governance of census towns is difficult, also due to lack of reform enforcement by state governments (73rd and 74th amendment) . Land-use is not regulated, large agriculture land is converted to urban uses with in-adequate provision of the infrastructure
• Empowering of Gram Panchayats with spatial planning and land use regulations to better manage not no-tified areas
• Not notified census towns (non-rural but very diversified commeercial activities) have the potential to raise funds by raising the tariffs for water, wastewater, etc which can be invested for better planning and infra-structure.
• Decentralized systems can be a good example of including census towns into the formal urbanization pro-cess.
• We should overcome the dichotomy of “urban” and “rural” in planning, policies and governance in order to address the peri-urban areas like census towns.
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Example of Germany: Düsseldorf District
Mr. Christoph van Gemmeren Deputy Head, Regional Planning Department, District Authority Düsseldorf, Federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Guiding principle for urban and regional planning in Germany: Economical handling of land with less seal-ing usage of soils and concentrated develepment
• All local authorities have its own planning administration and make decisions and approvals based on the na-tional building code. This is crucial for the implementation of the regional plan. The municipality is always required for decision making with spatial implications.
• The Disitrict Authority is a bundeling (or convergence) authority, which implements at district level sectoral policies and programmes of the state ministries. The District Authority is also responsible for economic development of the districts and gives approval for economic activities. All subsidies from national or state level must be in line with the regional plan (e.g social housing, infrastructure, etc.).
• Weighing (balancing of interests) is an important aspect of planning. It forces the public administration to take all sectoral interests into account and therefore work cross-sectoral
North Rhine-Westphalia
State developement plan
regional plan
District government Düsseldorf
binding landuseplan
Citizens and companies
building permissionApproval procedure
Ferderal Republic of Germany
Municipalities
basic ideas, guide-lines and planning and building act
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The Regional Plan (1:50,000)
• The Regional Plan of Düsseldorf District can be understood as the Plan of Plans
• It is not the base for building approvals
• The Regional Plan has only a few categories, it is kept abstract and vague.
• Concrete building planning is on the municipal level. The Municipality is guided by the Regional Plan but has still scope for own decisions
• Regional planning is understood as a constant process: “When we are done, we will start anew”
• Plan preparation and mapping: 90 spatial layers, 350 stakeholders involved, 4-5 years
Discussion
• Re-densification versus decentralisation: Although Germany is encouraging compact development with-in the city to keep the peripheries free from develop-ment, you can observe suburban development in the peripheries and people have to commute to their work places at urban centres. A solution is decentralised concentration, where different land uses and functions are mixed at decentralised clusters, where people can both live and work.
• Compared to Germany, India has a less balanced, rather lopsided regional development. Few city centres are growing fast and attract people to come to the city centres. Distributing smaller centres across the state should be planned at the regional level.
• The District authority (assigned by the state) has to cooperate with the regional council, which is composed of municipalities and villages (local representatives) of the region. Both sides have to agree jointly upon the regional plan.
• The question of the most preferred institutional model of regional planning: An authority from state level, an autonomous authority or a council/association of local bodies, like Düsseldorf Region, Chennai Metro-politan Development Authority (CMDA) or Stuttgart Region respectively?
• The question of cost efficient housing is also an important topic in Germany. Land market and land spec-ulation is a matter of the municipal authority, which can decide whether to buy land or leave it to private developers. Experience have shown that municipalities with more own land can tackle better the challenges of scarcity of housing. The District authority supports local bodies with land issues.
State Ministries of North Rhine-Westphalia
five District Governments
bundeling authorities
Cologne
DüsseldorfMünster
Arnsberg
Detmold
compromise solutions suited to all ministries
Areas for Commercial and Industrial Use )
nature con-servation areas
Regional green belt
groundwater - and water conservation
routes for railway and street
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Working tables - Day 1:
Guiding questions
• From what you know about current challenges: Why would a District Spatial Planning approach appeal to your level?
• What might be in the way for it to be successful?
• What should a proper spatial plan contain with regard to your level and its scale?
• What information should be addressed at other levels than yours?
Working tables - Day 1
• Appeals: District level spatial plan would improve the spatial strategy for the state which would help to im-prove convergence between different departments, flexibility and abstractness and would lead to better deci-sion making. Unless there is no spatial strategy at state level, coming out with a district plan will be difficult
• Hinderences: A statute is needed which is accepted by the people.
• Contents: A state level plan or strategy addresses a long list of different dimensions like social, economic and environmental aspects. All these aspects must be scaled at different levels so that hierarchies of different land uses are addressed and land banks can be created for development purposes.
Other:
• Definition of the term “country” must be made at state level (many states have to yet define it)
Group A Scale: Central and State
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Group B Scale: District
Group C Scale: Block/Panchayat/ULB
• Appeals: District Planning is appealing for the district, as it would lead to planned development setting priority for different zones. This could boost the economy, reduce conflicts of interests by harmonizing allo-cation judiciously, understand and give a direction of growth, etc.
• Hinderences: Coordination between different departments must be ensured.
• Contents: Planning and Vision for the people in the district, taking into account urban and rural in an in-tegrated manner: Direction of growth, future oriented decision making and prioritization of future zones. Disaster management must be an integral and very important part of the district plan.
• Appeals: A district level plan at the macro level must be translated to the micro level to enhance the spatial order. At the district level common infrastructure facilities for the local level should be provided
• Hinderences: The mandate is missing to implement the district level plan at the local level. Also fund con-straints and capacity constraints can hinder the process.
• Contents: Local level plan must be a cadastrial map. It also should be included in GPDP (Gram Panchayat Development Plan). Hierarchy of settlements, corridor and area development will not be addressed at the local level but at district level plan.
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Guiding questions
• How could we best make use of the District Spatial Planning approach at your level?
• How can Spatial Planning at your level become cross-sectoral?
Group Tamil Nadu Scale: District
• Abstracted and Connecting
The district plan must achieve a high level of abstraction and must connect the existing plans on the lower levels (like an abstract collage of local plans)
• Spatial Planning by People: Participation
Inputs should come from the people, not only from the gov-ernment. Only then plans become implementable
• District Spatial Planners
A common cadre of town planners in the state was already announced. Planners will be deputed to local bodies, panchayats and districts.
• Spatial Budget Planning
Spatially oriented budget planning aims to improve that funds reach the local bodies.
Group Tamil Nadu Scale: Local
• Judicious and Accesible Digitisation
Accesibility to plans, processes, feedback etc. will enhance the transparency and public awareness on spatial planning
• Optimal Utilisation of Resources
Land ressources can be secured for crucial functions such as water ressources or solid waste management
• Subsidiarity
For giving more weight to the interests of the local body
Working tables - Day 2 - Ideas that fly
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Group Odisha Scale: District
• Conditional Budgeting
Spatial plan as precondition for funds, schemes, etc.
• State level policy with regulatory and statutory backing of District Spatial Planning
• Capacity Building in a common language
Across the board, from state to local level
• Activation and Capacity Building of DPC with technical secretariat
The DPC technical secretariat can be a combination of DTPU and DPMU. For better convergence, trained planners with domain expertise sit in the line departments.
Group Odisha Scale: Local
• DTP to DTCP
DTP not to be limited to urban areas, but responsible for the entire state.
• Outsource planning (implementation) and concentrate on regulation
While the Government institutions concentrate on regula-tion, the planning part can be outsourced to private plan-ners.
• Building Level Approvals based on Village plan
A local building regulation act, not only for Urban Local Bodies, but also for rural areas.
• Local Spatial Plans
Such as CDP and Masterplans for cities, Village Development Plans and Block Development plans should be the base for development. A respective institution or at Block level must cater to the District Planning Unit.
Sharing ideas that fly
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Challenges and discussion points
As a take away, some important points raised and discussed during the dialogue are listed in this chapter. Though these could not been answered or resolved completely, they are well taken as guiding notes during the project and likely to further developed during upcoming workshops and other events.
Governance structure
• The district is an administrative level with the district collector as a head, who reports to the head of admin-istration. The overlying structure is formed by constituencies (parlamentry and assembly constituencies). For the Ministers, the area ends at the boundaries of their respective constituencies. There are two forces, with economic and decision making power, which has to be considered while making a land use plan.
Institutional structure
• Merging of DTP/ DTCP district offices with DPC DPMUs in all districts is very essential for institution-alization of district spatial planning
• In Tamil Nadu, no District Plans (economical) has been prepared yet and DPCs are not in place. The for-mation of DPCs should be mandated with spatial planning.
Cross-sectoral approach
• As part of existing spatial land use planning practices, can we really cover all sectors (infrastructure, agricul-ture, housing, industries, commercial, forests, etc.) with a cross-sectoral land use plan?
Existing capacities and Capacity Development
• Currently, state officials are not being able to correctly manage master plan preparation and implementation, then why go for another kind of spatial plan (regional plan)? How will they manage? They are already facing difficulties and practice of another type of plan will increase their difficulties.
Implementation
• Preparation of District Plan is fine but enforcing it is the real challenge, unless the mandate of Conditional Budgeting is attached to a District Plan
• Outsourcing: State can outsource some planning tasks, but should keep the conceptual thinking in-house. There is a mismatch between the availability of state planners and the expectations of plans. Even if the preparation of a plan is outsourced, there must be competent personnel at the client (state) side, to assess the quality of the plan. This adresses also the need for Capacity Development
• Plans in general can be self financing, using land base fiscal tools
• Every place creates and changes its own identity within short time periods. Regional plans can not foresee all of these developments. In Tamil Nadu for example, Madurai was considered the second most important city
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in the state. Now, Coimbatore took over and nobody planned or foresaw it. Plans at the macro level must therefore be flexible to respond to the realities on the ground. On the same time, the development should not guide the plans and policies, to have an organised and balanced development.
Levels of planning
• We must ask the question why Spatial Planning is not happening today at the local level of rural areas. Is it intentional?
• A concept of spatial order at the macro level can strategically enhance the power and growth of selected subordinate centres.
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Feedback
General
• A workshop of 4-5 days would result into concrete policy paper/ideas specific to case study. Time of 45 min. to 1 hour was short.
• The Workshop may not have covered all relevant aspects but there were certainly some very good inputs.
• Discussions on a plan which is already in place would have helped.
• Better involvement of multi-sectoral agencies, such as Panchayat Raj and Rural Development.
• Good team work by GIZ and open comments and a good dialogue happened on the workshop.
• The workshop came in the appropriate time, when the state Government starts its journey in this subject.
• It is a great oppportunity/startup to implement DPC in Tamil Nadu.
• Inspiring academians and foreigners.
• As we are at this right now, the discussions & results are a useful take away for the works at our end.
Working tables
• Structured questions with reference material would have led to more concrete conclusions in work groups.
• Discussion should have been focused on the two case studies.
• Focus on institutional mechanisms to translate planning processes to the field.
• The topics are very broad. Maybe it can be broken down into pieces for effective interaction at the level discussions.
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Requests from participants to GIZ
Policy
• Help in Designing State Level Policy Framework
• Facilitate consultation at government level to go for regional plan
Demonstration Plans
• A model plan which can act as a guide
• Pilot Study can be done and demonstrated by GIZ
• Hand-holding in plan preparation
• Suggestion on defining boundaries of rural settlements/habitation areas, beyond those boundaries permis-sion should be required to expand
Stakeholders
• Involve Planning Schools/Researches on District spatial planning
• To have convergence with other government officers and different acts that they follow so that GIZ can have a holistic land-use policy
Studies and good practice
• More awareness of literature and reports that already exist must be considered
• Identify in detail all bottlenecks and possible solutions taking cue from best practices and case studies
Learning, Sharing, Exchange
• Create a social group(whatsapp or facebook or other) to dissiminate the information on DPC
• Create a digital community of learners on SEP
• Design a Studio on District Spatial Planning
Scales of Planning
• More Brainstorming/consensus at the District and Block level
• What layers are used in regional planning?
• Suggestions on possible future institutional mechanism below district up to GP level
• Suggestions on tolerable error in spatial planning at various levels, along units scale. Here error means inac-curacies of mapping as land is becoming precious
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Public Participation
• Digitisation of public interfacing
• Information, Education, and Communication on building public awareness in a society with illiteracy
Capacity Development
• Please provide Human Resource Development on Plan Preparation
• Please provide list of recommended technical experts/consultants
Implementation and execution
• Once the district plans are made, the action plans shall be monitored and reviewed. The intermediate results shall be presented through workshops.
• Annual Surveillance of expansion of construction for rural and urban areas both by dedicated satellites/cam-eras through space. This will be helpful to check regulate the ground units scientific base. Tthe same data can be used by other departments for other purposed aloof. Hence there should be a mandatory satellite imaging of the country at least once in a year by dedicated cameras.
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Mr. A. Sivaprakasam Assistant Director Directorate of Town & Country Planning Housing and Urban Development Department Government of Tamil Nadu
Mr. Abhishek Agarwal Technical Expert Land Use Planning and Management (LUPM) project GIZ India
Mr. Ajay Katuri Lead Specialist, Urban Planning - RnRMr. Ajaya Kumar Dutt Former Director Town and Country Planning, OdishaMs. Anindita Mukherjee Technical Expert
Inclusive Cities Partnership Project (ICPP) GIZ India
Ms. Anjali Pancholy Town and Country Planning Organisation Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Ms. Anya Malhotra TranslatorMrs. Aparna Das Project Director
Inclusive Cities Partnership Project (ICPP) GIZ India
Dr. Avilash Roul Senior Scientist Indo-German Center for Sustainability Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Dr. Beela Rajesh Commissioner, Directorate of Town and Country Planning Directorate of Town & Country Planning Housing and Urban Development Department Government of Tamil Nadu
Mr. Bijoy Kumar Dash Additional District Magistrate (Revenue) Ganjam District Government of Odisha
Dr. Chandra Shekhar Kumar Principle Secretary to Government Revenue and Disaster Management Department Government of Odisha
Ms. Chitra Harshvardhan TranslatorMr. Christoph van Gemmeren Deputy Head
Regional Planning Department, District Authority (Bezirksregierung) Düsseldorf
Mr. Dr. N. Muthusamy Assisstant Professor (Urban Planning) Tamin Nadu Institute of Urban Studies
Dr. Dvijendra Kumar Sharma Joint Secretary, Governance Ministry of Panchayati Raj Government of India
Ms. Elke Matthaei GIZ GermanyMr. Felix Knopf Technical Expert
Land Use Planning and Management (LUPM) project GIZ India
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Ms. Friederike Thonke Technical Expert Inclusive Cities Partnership Project (ICPP) GIZ India
Mr. Georg Jahnsen Project Director Land Use Planning and Management (LUPM) project GIZ India
Mr. H.K. Solanki Assistant Professor National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj
Mr. K. Ramakrishnan Joint Director / Head of Division Industries Power and Transport State Planning Commission Government of Tamil Nadu
Dr. K. Pratheep Moses Associate Professor School of Planning and Architecture Anna University
Dr. Kajri Mishra Dean and Coordinator Urban Management & Governance Programs Xavier School of Rural Management Xavier University Bhubaneshwar
Mr. Kasinath Anbu Technical Expert Inclusive Cities Partnership Project (ICPP) GIZ India
Dr. Kiran Sandhu Professor Guru Ramdas School of Planning Guru Nanak Dev University
Mr. Lingaraj Patnaik Town Planner-cum-OSD Housing and Urban Development Department Government of Odisha
Mr. M. Sekaran Assistant Director Directorate of Town & Country Planning Housing and Urban Development Department Government of Tamil Nadu
Dr.. Manisha Jain Post-Doc Researcher Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung (IÖR)
Dr. N. Shridharan Professor / Director Regional Planning and Environment School of Planning & Architecture Bhopal
Mr. Noyal Thomas DIG Forest Policy
Mr Pramod Parida Scientist ORSAC - Odisha Space Application Centre, Depart-ment of Science & Technology Government of Odisha
Mr R. Balakrishnan Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary Planning & Convergence Department Government of Odisha
Mr. R. Srinivas Town and Country Planning Organisation Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Mr. Ranjan Kumar Mallick GeoSpatial Solutions
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Dr. S.K. Kulshrestha Independent ConsultantMr. Sangram K. Mohapatra Joint Secretary
Revenue and Desaster Management Department Government of Odisha
Dr. Sanjukta Bhaduri Professor of Urban Planning Department of Urban Planning School of Planning & Architecture Delhi
Ms. Sarah Habersack Project Director Smart Urban Mobility project GIZ India
Mr. Sashwat Bandyopadhyay Professor Faculty of Planning CEPT University
Dr. Sejal Patel Professor Faculty of Planning CEPT University
Dr. Shrawan Acharya Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
Mr. Shriman Narayan Technical Expert Land Use Planning and Management (LUPM) project GIZ India
Mr. Stefan Gebert ModeratorMr. Subhendra Mishra Chief Town Planner & Director
Town Planning Directorate Housing and Urban Development Department Government of Odisha
Mrs. Sudha Keshari Economic Advisor Department of Land Ressources Ministry of Rural Development Government of India Land Economics Division Department of Land Resources
Ms. Sumana Chatterjee Technical Expert Land Use Planning and Management (LUPM) project GIZ India
Mr. Surendra Sompalle Town and Country Planning Organisation Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Mrs. Tanaya Saha Technical Advisor Land Use Planning and Management (LUPM) project GIZ India
Mrs. Tanja Feldmann Cluster Coordinator Sustainable Urban and Industrial Development (SUID) GIZ India
Mr. Utpal Sharma Director Institute of Architecture and Planning Nirma University
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