New age Land Management Techniquesby | 01-09-2015 02:57 |
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DP-TP APPROACH : There is Development plan approach to understand town planning scheme mechanism and build urban infrastructure. Cities in India are facing three distinct challenges in the development of urban infrastructure. The first challenge is to adhere to a development plan in the face of a strong tendency towards unplanned growth. Second, when land is acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, a major equity issue arises relating the disparity between those who lose land for a given project and those who do not. Finally, city authorities do not have adequate resources to finance infrastructure. The Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act (GTPUDA), 1976 provides for an effective mechanism that addresses these challenges through a process called ?Development Plan–Town Planning Scheme? mechanism. Managing urban expansion in the periphery of cities is only one use to which the DP–TP mechanism can be put. The DP–TP mechanism Promotes and enables the Development Authority to think and plan at both the macro level and at the micro level. The bane of a lot of infrastructure planning is a geographically focused view. The DP–TP mechanism requires planners to think at a city- wide level and then allows them to undertake very detailed planning. LAND POOLING AND READJUSTMENT TECHNIQUE : In this method, the public planning agency or development authority temporarily brings together a group of landowners for the purpose of planning, under the aegis of the state-level town or urban planning act. As there is no acquisition or transfer of ownership involved, there is no case for paying compensation. A master plan of the area is prepared, laying out the roads and plots for social amenities. The remaining land is reconstituted into final plots for the original owners. The size of the final plot is in proportion to the size of the original plot, and its location is as close as possible to the original plot. A betterment charge based on the cost of the infrastructure proposed to be laid is levied on the landowners. Infrastructure is then provided utilizing these . LAND ACQUISITION METHOD In this method, the public planning authorities/development agencies acquire large areas of land from agricultural landholders (farmers) under the Land Acquisition Act of 1894. Compensation paid to farmers is based on prevailing agricultural land prices. To minimize opposition to acquisition farmers are paid prices marginally higher than agricultural land prices. Then a master plan of the area is prepared, laying out the roads, plots for social amenities, and plots for sale. Roads and infrastructure are then built, using government funds or loans. Serviced plots are then sold for urban uses at market rates, which are most often much higher than the rate at which land is acquired.
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