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Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034 The ‘’’Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034’’’ refers to the 20-year development plan for Mumbai city which is currently being prepared by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation. The corporation which is the richest in India is responsible for the urban planning of Greater Mumbai. Every 20 years, the BMC prepares a development plan which decides how the available land in the city is to be used for public amenities like education, sanitation, health, to name a few. An exercise, many citizens groups and planners consider critical, given the shortage of open spaces in Mumbai. The BMC has entrusted the task of preparing the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034 to ‘’’Groupe SCE India Pvt Ltd.’’’, a consortium of Indian and French urban planning companies. The group has to prepare comprehensive land use plans, thematic maps, track growth projections and at a later stage prepare the plan. There were objections raised by some quarters within the corporation over the decision to award the contract to Groupe SCE Pvt Ltd., on the grounds that an outsider would be unable to understand the problems peculiar to Mumbai. But the objections were finally overcome and the BMC went ahead with its decision to award the contract to Groupe SCE. The official deadline of 2014 for the development plan is likely to be pushed due to certain early stage delays. At present the BMC has published the existing land use plans for the city, but some citizens groups have raised questions regarding the veracity of some of these plans. Before the plan comes is approved and cleared for implementation, it is mandatory for the corporation to leave it open to the public for suggestions for a 60-day period. This is to ensure there is adequate time for the people of the city to study it and raise objections so get suitable changes get made to the plan.

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