With new Metropolitan Development Plan (MDP)-2031 for the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, along with Zoning and Development Promotion Regulations, coming into force, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority will soon digitise land uses of all the villages falling within its limits.
“We are in the process of computerising the land uses of the villages and the same will be uploaded on the HMDA website to help the citizens know about land use for purposes such as residential, commercial, agricultural or industrial as earmarked in the master plan,” metropolitan commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad has said.
At a press conference here on Friday, Neerabh Kumar said that in about three months’ time, the land use data will be made available at Mee Seva centres and citizens can get digitised land use certificates immediately.
In future, HMDA will take up layout based development with sufficient roads, civic amenities and infrastructure.
The soft and printed copies of mandal-wise MDP will be made available to people in two weeks.
The master plan approved by the state government is displayed at HMDA’s head office at Tarnaka in Secunderabad along with zoning and development promotion regulations.
The plan for HMR can also be viewed at HMDA website www.hmda.gov.in.The MDP-2031 (5,965 sq.km) includes the extended area of HMDA of 5,018 sq. km, modification of ORRGC Master Plan (330 sq.km), modification of part of the erstwhile HUDA area outside the Outer Ring Road Growth Corridor (432 sq.km), modification of part of Hyderabad Airport Development Authority Master Plan, outside Outer Ring Road Growth Corridor (185 sq.kms), master plan for Bhongiri and Sangareddy municipalities.
The projected population of HMDA area for 2031 is 1.84 crore. The base map is prepared on the basis of satellite images and village cadastral maps. The proposed land uses are residential, peri-urban, commercial, manufacturing, public, semipublic facilities and utilities. multiple, recreation and open space, water body, forest, special reservation, conservation (agriculture), traffic and transportation.
Residential growth is going to be permitted in the areas earmarked for residential land uses (R1, R2, R3 and R4), commercial, multiple and peri-urban land use zones.
R1: Urban area contiguous to ORR Growth Corridor.
R2: Urban nodes having potential to grow and higher levels of facilities are proposed in these pockets.
As many as 13 have been identified in the HMA region and will function as nodal development centres in the extended area.
R3: Urban centres catering to lower order needs of their surrounding hinterland will function as growth centres and about 46 have been proposed across the region.
R4: These rural settlements provide basic amenities and physical infrastructure.
A 300-metre-wide belt outside the village settlement ie, 300 metres from the village boundary will be treated as residential zone. The peri-urban land use is earmarked as a belt of about 1 km to 1.5 km all along the (R1) i.e. , urban areas contiguous to ORRGC and (R2) i.e., urban nodes to act as a continuum between urban and rural areas.
Buildings will be allowed with ground coverage not exceeding 25 per cent with a height of 18 metres and 15 metres restriction for residential and nonresidential uses respectively.
In peri-urban zone other uses allowed are holiday resorts, film studios, recreational outdoor activity, institutions, specified parks.
RAIL TERMINALS: The metropolitan commissioner said that in next three years (from the date of notification of the final plan) if the South Central Railway authorities failed to complete technical feasibility, arrive at the design of the terminals and commenced acquisition of land, the government and HMDA would consider the proposals again.
The plan provides for railway passenger terminals at Manoharabad and Edulanagulapalli, a freight terminal at Ravulapalli, and passenger- cum-freight terminals at Timmapur and Bhuvanagiri.
In the MDP, about 209 sq km has been earmarked for industrial use and the need of industry.
Logistic hubs for truck terminals, bus terminals and other facilities have been proposed at 12 places in three districts.
A 287-km Regional Ring Road (RRR) is proposed that will connect eight urban nodes and 13 urban centres.