CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Tuesday has decided to set up Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and approved the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) Bill, 2017.
The Authority will seek to answer the growing needs of the rapidly expanding urban agglomeration Gurugram has become.
It aims to develop a vision for the continued, sustained and balanced growth of the Gurugram metropolitan area by providing quality of life and reasonable standard of living to the residents through generation of employment opportunities besides providing integrated and coordinated planning, infrastructure development and provision of urban amenities.
It will also seek to provide mobility management, sustainable management of urban environment, and social, economic and industrial development, redefine urban governance and delivery structure in coordination with local authorities in the context of the emergence of Gurugram as a rapidly expanding urban agglomeration.
The GMDA shall secure the coordinated and integrated infrastructure development and provision of urban amenities, mobility management, sustainable management of the urban environment, urban regeneration and renewal and social, economic and industrial development in the notified area. It will also take such measures or coordinate with the Central government, the State Government or the local authority as may be necessary and prudent for the purpose.
It will also prepare a disaster management plan and take measures to prevent disasters and mitigation of its effects in the notified area, establish, operate and maintain the public safety answering point of the emergency response system for the notified area.
The authority may also acquire, lease, hold, manage, maintain and dispose property, movable or immovable, other than land, establish a modern geospatial based system for planning purposes and for land, infrastructure, urban amenities and urban environment in the notified area.
GMDA will also direct the local authority having jurisdiction or the district magistrate to remove any obstruction or encroachment on roads, require the Gurugram police to take, as immediately as may be practicable, action in the aid of the authority.
The State government may also, by notification, declare any area falling within Gurugram district to be the Gurugram Metropolitan Area.
The chief minister will be the chairperson of the GMDA. There will be a resident’s advisory council to advise the authority and provide guidance on the exercise of its powers and performance of its functions.
The council will be headed by a chief executive officer, who will preside over its meetings, and other members. It will also have a minimum of 10 and maximum of 15 members who will be residents of the notified area.
The resident welfare associations, civil society, labour, industry, real estate developers, commerce and services will be appropriately represented in the council.
The council will monitor the implementation of the annual plan of action for infrastructure development, mobility management plan and the plan for sustainable management of the urban environment and make such recommendations or provide such advice as it may decide.
