‘Development plan needs to be prepared keeping in mind people living in vulnerable coastal settlements’
The 69th National Town and Country Planners Conference, organised by the Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI) with theme ‘Sustainable Development Goals in the context of COVID-19’here concluded on Saturday, with the experts coming out with a number of recommendations.
Reading out the recommendations prepared during the session on local sub-theme “Integrated Coastal Region Development Plan”, ITPI vice-president V. Ramudu said that master plans must concentrate on sustainable management and must be accepted by local government, communities and need to be finalised after an extensive consultation process. He said that comprehensive understanding of coastal eco-system and its dynamics is essential before any development activities are taken up.
Come up with feasible ideas on the way forward, Jagan tells town planners
Apart from achieving the 17 sustainable development goals set by the United Nations by 2030, town planners have to focus on housing strategy for the low income group (LIG) and the middle income group (MIG), Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has said.
He was delivering the inaugural address virtually from Amaravati, of the two-day 69th National Town and Country Planning Conference that began here on Friday.
The conference is being organised by the Institute of Town Planners, India.
Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said housing for the LIG and MIG segments was one of the main programmes of the State. The town planners should deliberated and give ideas on how it could be achieved, he said.
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Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI) will be organising a three-day 69th National Town and Country Planners Conference, from February 26 to 28, here in the city.
Addressing a press conference about the conference here on Thursday, Secretary General of ITPI, S.B. Kodankar, said that the theme of the conference is ‘Sustainable Development Goals in the context of COVID-19’, with sub-themes on ‘Environment and Climate Change’, ‘Housing Strategy for LIG and MIG’, and ‘Water Sensitive Planning’. He said that the local sub-theme for the conference is ‘Integrated Coastal Region Development Plan’, which was decided keeping in view the 974 km coastal line of Andhra Pradesh.
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NK Patel, president of the Institute of Town Planners, India, has the areas chalked out that need to be brought into the planning frameworks, academics and practices.
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NK Patel says the role of urban planners is “ever-evolving” and “has broadened from being focused just on land use, to now encompass transport, economy and the environment.”
The country needs to put in special efforts to create infrastructure for the future, believes NK Patel, a gold-medallist town planner and leading real estate developer from Ahmedabad, who has taken over as president of the Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI), the premier national body of town planners. He says the role of urban planners is “ever-evolving” and “has broadened from being focused just on land use, to now encompass transport, economy and the environment”. As town planning is critical for the proper development of cities, Patel says it needs to be integrated with other government schemes for best