Recently, I had the opportunity to examine the Draft Development Plan released by Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC). The plan is quite badly designed. Yet, what hurt me more was the fact that this plan was developed for Special Planning Area (SPA) which is not developed as much so the development is almost green-field urbanization. And yet, even when we are given a clean slate we make such primary mistakes in planning. I wrote about the shortcomings in an Article in Moneylife.in titled "How can smart cities be built on dumb development plans?"
I have looked at the population, water demand estimation, power demand estimation, waste estimation, transportation planning etc. On every parameter this plan falls short. Have a read and leave comments.
