Town Planning Department is "hopeless": Gadkari

Calling the Town Planning Department "hopeless" and "good for nothing", Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari today said an outside agency should be hired to chalk out a development plan for Pune.
Looking at the current pace of development of the city, a new vision was necessary, he said.
Incidentally, the state Town Planning Department comes under the Urban Development ministry, a portfolio held by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis himself.
"The Town Planning Department is a hopeless department... The department is good for nothing...There is a need to employ agencies like Singapore Planning Authority to chalk out a better development plan for the city.

"If we rely on Town Planning Department, the plan will never materialise as I haven't seen such a hopeless organisation in my life," the BJP leader said, speaking at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of a flyover here.
"If you decide to employ an outside agency to chalk out the development plan, I am sure the chief minister will give his approval," he said.