<p>The state government has withdrawn the provisional approval it gave to the BDA’s Revised Master Plan-2031, with a view to include many changes.</p>.<p>The Urban Development Department (UDD) is withdrawing the provisional approval a year and a half after it received the RMP-2031 from the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), in January 2019, for government approval.</p>.<p>The RMP received provisional approval in 2017 and several meetings were held before the decision was made to withdraw it, the UDD said in its order.</p>.<p>The BDA had earlier received 13,046 objections and suggestions on the RMP-2031. A team under the BBMP special commissioner had examined the objections before giving a final shape to the proposal.</p>.<p>NGO Citizen Action Forum has moved the high court alleging that the RMP was finalised without offering any explanation to the public’s objections.</p>.<p>The court had ordered the officials to consider all the objections before finalising the draft.</p>.<p>Following the court order, the government had set up an expert committee helmed by retired IAS officer B S Patil to investigate the objections. Though the committee did not hold a single meeting, the BDA submitted the draft plan to the government.</p>.<p>A UDD official said the previous Congress regime had approved the draft and the plan got a final shape during the coalition government.</p>.<p>“But the (Congress-JD(S)) government fell before it could approve the RMP and the BJP government wants to bring some changes to the plan,” the official said, explaining why the provisional approval was withdrawn.</p>
<p>The state government has withdrawn the provisional approval it gave to the BDA’s Revised Master Plan-2031, with a view to include many changes.</p>.<p>The Urban Development Department (UDD) is withdrawing the provisional approval a year and a half after it received the RMP-2031 from the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), in January 2019, for government approval.</p>.<p>The RMP received provisional approval in 2017 and several meetings were held before the decision was made to withdraw it, the UDD said in its order.</p>.<p>The BDA had earlier received 13,046 objections and suggestions on the RMP-2031. A team under the BBMP special commissioner had examined the objections before giving a final shape to the proposal.</p>.<p>NGO Citizen Action Forum has moved the high court alleging that the RMP was finalised without offering any explanation to the public’s objections.</p>.<p>The court had ordered the officials to consider all the objections before finalising the draft.</p>.<p>Following the court order, the government had set up an expert committee helmed by retired IAS officer B S Patil to investigate the objections. Though the committee did not hold a single meeting, the BDA submitted the draft plan to the government.</p>.<p>A UDD official said the previous Congress regime had approved the draft and the plan got a final shape during the coalition government.</p>.<p>“But the (Congress-JD(S)) government fell before it could approve the RMP and the BJP government wants to bring some changes to the plan,” the official said, explaining why the provisional approval was withdrawn.</p>
