Naya Raipur Development Plan 20312031 Naya Raipur Development Authority NAYA RAIPUR DEVELOPMENT PLAN-2031 PLANNING TEAM NAYA RAIPUR DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Shri P. Joy Oommen (I.A.S.) Chairman Shri S.S. Bajaj (I.F.S.) Chief Executive Officer & Director T & CP Shri A.K. Dubey , General Manager (Finance) Shri P.C. Jain, Manager (Finance) Shri S.K. Shrivastava , General Manager (PWD) Shri. S.K.Nag, Manager (PWD) Shri K.P. Bajpai , Building Officer & Town Planner Shri. G.C.Nahata, Deputy Manager ( Land) Shri J.C. Singhal , Dy. G.M. (Public Relation) Shri.V.R. Meshram, Asst. Manager (Land) Shri J.P. Sharma ,Manager (Env) & Dy.M.(R) OFFICERS ASSOCIATED WITH NRDA (EARLIER CADA) AND DIRECTORATE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ,RAIPUR, IN EARLY STAGES OF PLAN Shri.Vivek Dhand, I.A.S, Chairman Shri.M.K.Gupta, Dy.G.M.(Planning) Shri. Sanjay Shukla, I.F.S, Chief Executive Officer Shri.P.Nihalani, Nazul Officer & D.M (Land) Shri. B.K.Sinha, I.F.S. Chief Executive Officer & Director T & CP Shri. Alok Tiwari, Manager (Environnent) Shri. K.C.Yadav, I.F.S. Chief Executive Officer Shri. Akhilesh Shukla, Data Entry Operator Shri. Anil Tuteja, Chief Executive Officer Shri. Vineet Nair, T & CP OTHER OFFICIAL ASSOCIATED WITH NRDA Shri Rajkumar Mudaliar Shri G.P.Sharma. Shri. B.L.Nishad Shri R.S. Tiwari Shri.Manoj Joshi Shri. K.K.Singaur Shri.Pradeep Thambi Shri S.L. Dhruwanshi Shri.P.D.Yoshen Shri.Mani Ram Dhruw Shri. N.L.Sahu Shri.Navneet Kotwaliwale CITY AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CIDCO), NAVI MUMBAI Shri N. Ramarao, Vice Chairman & Managing Director Shri S. Sinha , Addl. Chief Transport Engineer Shri Deepak Kapur, Joint Managing Director Shri D.V. Shekdar, Addl. Chief Planner Shri D.P. Samant ,Chief Architect and Planner Smt. Aparna Vedula, Senior Planner Shri C.S. Sanghavi, Chief Engineer & G.M. ( Technical) Shri R.N. Dengle , Senior Planner CONSULTING ENGINEERING SERVICES (I) PVT LTD, NEW DELHI Shri S.S. Chakarborty Project Coordinator and Managing Director Urban Planning Team Mrs Alpana Bose Power and Telecommunication Shri J.C. Gambhir, Team Leader Shri Anoop Singh Shri S.K. Chakarborty Shri Virendra Kumar , Deputy Team Leader Traffic and Transport Experts Shri Suryakant Kejariwal Miss Swati Khanna Shri N. Ranganathan Environment and Ecology Expert Shri Neeraj Kumar Singh Shri Jayashankar Thota Shri Subhajit Maitra Shri Harbhajan Singh Environment & Infrastructure Expert Site Representative Miss Anwesha Chakarborty Shri R.D. Panandhikar Shri Haseen Zaidi Naya Raipur Development Plan – 2031 The Planner's Dilemma - A Foreword to the Development Plan of Naya Raipur "What human beings need is not utopia ('no place') but entopia ('in place') a real city which they can build, a place which satisfies the dreamer and is acceptable to the scientist, a place where the artist and the builder merge" Constantinos A. Doxiadis Most cities and towns of today are the products of an evolutionary process in which some of the larger villages or a cluster of villages have grown and diversified at a faster pace than others. While census definitions of urban areas have usually emphasized the size and diversified occupational structure of the population, settlements too have grown in geographical size and often diversified in terms of their functions as market places, administrative capitals, industrial centres or tourist towns. No doubt, the growth and diversification of human settlements into towns and cities have been aided by human interventions of many kinds of which the efforts to plan their physical features or lend them a distinctive architectural character have been of special interest to town planners, architects and historians. India takes pride in the archeological evidence of planned cities as early as in 3000 B.C., though none of the cities of Indus Valley Civilization period appear to have survived long enough to influence the building of similar planned settlements, in later times. We also know of Indraprastha and Pataliputra as planned cities of olden times but with no surviving architectural features, they are remembered as little more than old names of today’s Delhi and Patna. Kurukshetra has become more of a metaphor for a battleground for just causes than the name of a planned ancient city. A long history of invasions and internecine wars among kings, regional chieftains and other war lords have left us with only a few forts, temples and palaces of ancient or medieval India. There are not many cities of even 17th or 18th centuries except perhaps Jaipur, Udaipur and few others that have been able to preserve their special architectural or planning features up to the present day. Elsewhere, especially in Europe, some of the ancient as well as medieval cities have survived the onslaught of time or marauders and retained much i Naya Raipur Development Plan – 2031 of their charm and physical features. The Roman towns in many parts of Europe are living examples of the efforts of human beings to shape their habitations scientifically and aesthetically. In modern times, the end of the colonial era led to the emergence of new nations as also the redrawing of national boundaries and of provinces within those nations. This in turn necessitated creation of new cities or towns to serve as administrative capitals of new nation states or their provinces. There are no doubt some examples of new towns and cities developed by colonial governments too essentially for administrative reasons – like the creation of summer capitals in hill stations or cantonment towns. There have also been more seriously planned cities of colonial times like New Delhi and Canberra. Brasilia, Islamabad, Abuja and Putrajaya are some of the new administrative capitals planned and developed in the post- colonial era. Another set of planned townships that have come up in many parts of the modern world are those developed by large industrial corporations especially the steel and automobile makers. In India, Tata Iron and Steel Company developed the planned township of Jamshedpur which later inspired building of similar large integrated townships especially by public sector undertakings. Bhilai, Rourkela and Bokaro are large greenfield townships which have grown and spilled over to their neighbourhoods to become some of the most cosmopolitan cities of India. The first major effort after independence to develop a wholesome planned city in the country culminated in the building of Chandigarh. Planned with painstaking details by a team of architects and planners led by the redoubtable French architect Corbusier, Chandigarh inspired the building of two more planned capital cities – Bhubaneshwar and Gandhinagar. Perhaps, the success of Chandigarh should have inspired the building of many more planned green field towns and cities all across the country. Though, this did not happen, preparation of master plans for existing cities and towns and planned development of new city centres or satellite townships have indeed become a serious preoccupation of many State Governments in the country. Planning or building new cities have perhaps not been easy decisions for governments or city authorities. More than the problems of mobilising the required ii Naya Raipur Development Plan – 2031 financial or skilled human resources, perhaps, what has truly deterred them is the fear of criticism – of the location of the new cities, scope of the plans, the consultative process involved and the administrative arrangements for management of the cities once they are built. Planners and developers of new cities have to face many dilemmas and deal with many imponderables. These include issues like how much of history, heritage and culture of the region should or can be captured in the design of a new city which is being built for future generations or may be how to balance aesthetics and functionality. How much of the land could be set apart as open spaces or for recreation without compromising the financial viability of the plans? How to ensure that the plans promote social cohesion and also prevent the formation of illegal or squatter settlements? Or say, how to devise a safe, reliable and energy efficient transportation system for the city? Planning a robust management structure for the planned city after it is built is another area of challenge. How does one build in provisions against willful violations of planning norms by builders or the arbitrariness of the city authorities themselves? When the new state of Chhattisgarh was born on 1st of November 2000, Raipur, the largest city of the state was named its capital. Raipur has for many decades been a vibrant market place in central India. Yet, with an already burdened civic infrastructure, it was ill-equipped to take on its newfound role as the administrative capital of a rapidly growing state. There was a prolonged debate on the need for a new city, its location and the mode of financing its development. It is indeed a remarkable achievement that the people of Chhattisgarh and its political leaders could arrive at a consensus on the building of a large green field city close to Raipur. The new city which has been named ‘Naya Raipur’ would at once serve as the administrative capital of the State and also cater to the infrastructural needs of industry and trade in the region. Many surveys and studies were undertaken before deciding on the precise location of the city. Planners have taken into account the existence of a number of human habitations, water bodies and wooded areas in the proposed location and woven those features in to the physical plan of the city. The development plan covers a total area of 237.42 sq.kms, out of which the core area iii Naya Raipur Development Plan – 2031 alone would be spread over 95.22 sq.kms. Development would be undertaken in phases and the target population for the city in 2031 is 5.6 lacs.