"The revised Master Plan-2032 for Jammu city has been completed by the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) and would be placed in public domain very soon for inviting suggestions and objections from general public and other stakeholders," Chief Town Planner of JDA Hamid Ahmed Wani said.
Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary Satesh Nehru reviewed the master plan at a meeting at the JDA complex here yesterday.
Hamid, who led a team of officers to formulate the master plan, said, "Overall the master plan is aimed at making Jammu a planned city and shape it as a generative urban centre which shall be sustainable, viable and safe."
He said the revised master plan has been conceived with the vision of developing Jammu as a metropolis focusing on planned development, preservation of historic city, rejuvenation of urban environment, eradication of problems of transportation and housing, adaptive mixed use policy, and appropriate provisions for social and physical infrastructure.
Hamid said the plan has worked out detailed urban land use policy with appropriate mechanism for implementation of master plan proposals.
The plan has rationalised development promotion controls to make plan proposals flexible, implementable, development responsiveness and realistic, he said.
After threadbare discussions, the secretary told officers that all major changes that are to be incorporated in the new master plan should be properly re-examined.