Bangalore Master Plan

As the institution that conceived and coordinated this process, Janaagraha’s own feedback is included below, on the CDP itself, the process of collective feed- back, and suggested action steps.

1. THE ROLE OF MULTIPLE AGENCIES:
Given the multiple jurisdictions, and accountability often resting with the State Government rather than to the local governments concerned, it could not have been an easy task to access data from the various agencies providing services to the various municipalities and villages within the BDA footprint of 1306 Sq.km. However, it seems that individual government departments have not shared their perspective development vision for the CDP. This makes it difficult to analyze
the ability of various agencies to reliably fulfill their role as articulated in the CDP. Hence we do not know the
implication of the masterplan on public amenities such as water, power, transport, solid waste etc.This masterplan currently provides an excellent start- ing point to start examining the data and making intelli- gent choices. It needs to evolve into a coordinated mas- terplan, layered with each individual agency planning and ownership.

2. NOMENCLATURE, CLASSIFICATION & ACCURACY OF THE MASTERPLAN: the terms in this master- plan are significantly deviant from those defined in the TCPA. These are tools for clarity and merely require making sure that all concerned understand how to read the new masterplan. The workshops held threw up a number of anomalies between the maps and the reality on the ground.
This is mostly easy to rectify and to be expected given that this is the first such spatial data exercise and bound to require updating for achieving accuracy.

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