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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">The civic administration has proposed a modification in the Development Control (DC) rules to restrict developments within 10 metres of the proposed metro route.&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family:arial; font-size:11px; line-height:1.6em">The state government has already issued directives to regulate development works along the proposed Vanaz-Ramwadi metro corridor. The five-metre stretch will hence be frozen for development works with immediate effect. A no-objection certificate will be compulsory for any construction within 50 metres of the proposed alignment.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">The civic administration has sought the general body&#39;s permission to invite suggestions and objections from citizens to the proposed modification in the DC rules of old and merged city areas.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had proposed 4 FSI on either side of the metro corridors to achieve greater population densification through vertical development of residential and commercial properties. The mass transport project will be economically viable by generating the all-important funds, the report suggested.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">The DMRC has said that the project has to be implemented through densely populated areas along highly congested routes. The report says that despite all efforts taken to mitigate inconveniences to the public, certain sensitive land acquisitions and disruptions are unavoidable. &quot;If the project has to go through fast, a visible support to the project from the government and the city corporation should be available. If the project implementation is delayed, the city will become more crowded and it will be practically impossible to carry out construction activities later on. Therefore, a carefully drawn strategy is necessary to implement this project,&quot; the DPR states.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">METRO ALIGNMENT ISSUES</span></span></span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family:arial; font-size:11px; line-height:1.6em">Elevated metro alignment on certain stretches of the Vanaz-Ramwadi corridor will be problematic due to inadequate road width, sharp turns and other issues</span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family:arial; font-size:11px; line-height:1.6em"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Some locations are Paud Phata junction, Deccan Gymkhana, Pataleshwar temple, Sancheti chowk junction, railway station area, Jehangir hospital junction and others. At Paud Phata, the road width is about 15 m with a flyover on one side and a 100 m high rise on the other</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family:arial; font-size:11px; line-height:1.6em"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Roads along which the metro alignment is planned (Karve, JM, Civil court, Mal Dhakka, Station, Bund garden roads) are of varying width insufficient to accommodate the 35 m wide metro stations</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family:arial; font-size:11px; line-height:1.6em"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Several sectors of the road have width less than 30m</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Do we really need 4 FSI?</span></span></span></strong><br /> <span style="color:rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family:arial; font-size:11px; line-height:1.6em">Experts and environmentalists have objected to the four FSI proposal. A Janwani study says that metro influence zone, according to the draft Development Plan (DP) report is 32.95 Sq. Km. This if we consider 500m on both sides of metro corridors.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Residential use as per Proposed Land Use (PLU) has been pegged at 30%, which means 10 Sq. Km land is available for housing. An FSI of 4 will result in built up area of 40 Sq. Km, or 400 lakh Sq. m. This would generate eight lakh houses accommodating a population of 40 lakh, considering average size of tenement as 50 Sq m.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">The housing requirement, according to a study carried out for the draft DP, is 6.5 lakh houses which can house a population of 32.50 lakh for the entire city. This proves that tenements generated from the sale of FSI would be much higher than the required built up area to finance the metro, the Janwani report states.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Source-On Request</span></span></span></p>