URDPFI GUIDELINES

URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PLANS FORMULATION AND
IMPLEMENTATION (URDPFI)
GUIDELINES
Classification of Urban Settlements

• The classification of urban settlements adopted by the

Census of India 2011 is as follows:
• 1. All places with a Municipality, Corporation, Cantonment
Board or notified town area committee, etc.
• 2. All other places which satisfies the following criteria:
• a. A minimum population of 5,000;
• b. At least 75 per cent of the male main working population
engaged in nonagricultural pursuits; and
• c. A density of population of at least 400 persons per sq.
km.
 Visioning Exercise
• The focus of the plan preparation exercise should be on
ensuring adequate stakeholder participation to arrive at a
shared vision for the settlements, with regard to economic
development and quality of life.
• The vision thus arrived should form the guiding principle for
the Regional or Development plan. These would include
inter alia:
• Economic Development Objectives (Increase in GDP,
Income, Employment and such others)
• Transportation Objectives
• Utility Services (levels and coverage) Objectives
• Social Infrastructure Objectives
• Safety and security of the citizens
• Growth Pattern/Design Objectives
• Investment Program/ Sustainability Objectives
 People’s Participation
• People can participate in the development process
in the following realms:
• Pre-plan participation in decision making in vision
development, for identification of development
priorities.
• Post-plan participation before finalisation and
implementation of development programmes and
priorities.
• Participation during implementation and evaluation
of development programmes and project.
• Participation and sharing the benefits of
development, managing the assets etc.
 Key Recommendations in the
Guidelines
• The guidelines, focuses on the following:
• Integrated regional and urban development with
focus on spatial planning
• Regional spatial development frame to provide
the backdrop within which settlement planning
(urban, rural, peri-urban) and local area planning
should be taken up,
• Adapting a paradigm shift towards planning and
development for compact, green, smart cities and
safer cities,
• Ensuring that the task of urban and regional
planning must be only carried out or must ONLY
be the responsibility of certified planner.
 Key aspects of Guidelines for local area/ site specific
development
• Local area/ site specific development planning should
be based on urban design approach focusing on
mobility, accessibility and connectivity, street furniture
including street plantation, pedestrian & cycle paths,
signage and parking, provision of site level facilities,
etc.
Special attention is required on authenticity of
property boundaries and land tenure on the basis of
the revenue records
Special development incentives such as increased FAR
should be adopted in the designated TOD influence
zone (approx. 500 meters) along the major
transportation corridors.
• Special attention to be given to conservation of
archaeological, architectural and historic buildings and
sites as per the prevailing rules.
State Level Legal Framework-Tamilnadu
• The Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning
Act, 1971 is currently in force in the State. The
legislation was brought in after repealing the
Town Planning Act, 1920.
• It is a comprehensive piece of legislation and
contains provisions for the preparation of
Regional, Metropolitan, Master Plan, New
Town and Detailed Development Plans.
• Besides, the Act envisages the constitution of
Regional, Local and New Town Planning
Authorities and a Town and Country Planning
Board at the apex empowered with
implementation powers.
State Level Legal Framework-Tamilnadu
• The Town and Country Planning Act, 1971 has been
amended so as to have separate provision for the
constitution of Madras Metropolitan Development
Authority and preparation and implementation of Master
Plan for the Madras Metropolitan Planning Area.
• The scheme of the Act is that the planning process starts
with decentralisation of Regional Planning Area and Local
Planning Area under section 10 of the Act which is notified
in the gazette, defining the limits of the area.
• After this, the Town and Country Planning Authority are
constituted in consultation with the Director of Town
Planning for performing the function of preparing a
Regional/Master Plan and detailed Development Plan.
• Once the Plan is prepared and submitted to the
government, State government can give its consent to the
Planning Authority to the publication of a notice of the
preparation of plan with or without modification.
 Provisions of 74th Constitution
Amendment Act
• 74th Constitution Amendment Act (74th CAA),
in effect from 1st June 1993,ushered a new
era in the history of urban local government in
the country.
 Provisions of 74th Constitution
Amendment Act
• 1) Constitution of Panchayats and Municipalities:
• Article 243 B of 73rd CAA, provides for the constitution of Panchayats at three levels
in a state:
• a) Village,
• b) Intermediate (may not be constituted in a State having a population not
exceeding twenty lakhs) and
• c) District.
• Article 243 Q of 74th CAA, provides for constitution of Municipalities in every State
as given under:
• a) Nagar Panchayat for transitional area, that is to say, an area in transition from
rural to urban in character.
• b) Municipal Council for a smaller urban area, and
• c) Municipal Corporation for a larger urban area.
• 2) Constitution of Ward Committees: Article 243 S provides for constitution of
ward committees, consisting of one or more wards, within the territorial area of a
Municipality having a population of 3, 00,000 or more.
• 3) Duration of Municipalities: Article 243 E of 73rd CAA and 243 U of 74th CAA,
• provides a fixed term of 5 years of a panchayat and municipality respectively, from
the date appointed. Elections to constitute a panchayat or municipality are required
to be completed before the expiration of the duration of the municipality.
 Provisions of 74th Constitution Amendment Act
• Powers, authority and responsibilities of Panchayats and Municipalities:
• Article 243G of 73rd and 243W of 74th CAA provides powers, authority and
• responsibilities of Municipalities subject that legislature of the State by law
• endow:
• a) The Panchayats and Municipality with such powers and authority those are
• necessary to enable them to function as institutions of self government.
• The law prepared by the state government may contain provisions for the
devolution of powers and responsibilities upon Municipalities, with or without
conditions with respect to
• i. the preparation of plans for economic development and social
• justice;
• ii. the performance of functions and implementation of schemes as may
• be entrusted to them including those in relation to the matters listed in
• the Eleventh and Twelfth Schedule;
• b) The Committees with such powers and authority as may be necessary to
• enable them to carry out the responsibilities conferred upon Municipalities
• them including those in relation to the matters listed in the Twelfth Schedule.