CDP-II: Will it compensate for CDP-I's failings?
The Hitavada campaign on CDP-II for Nagpur By Kartik Lokhande Nagpur is growing. Nagpur is emerging as a metro. Nagpur is green. Nagpur is clean. Nagpur is rich in cultural heritage. Nagpur is this. Nagpur is that. Nagpur needs to be freed of encroachments. Nagpur’s water supply should improve. To ensure recycle and reuse of water, sewage treatment plants are proposed. Water bodies should be protected... Almost every Nagpurian must have heard each of these or one of these lines in speeches of its leaders and civic authorities, on different occasions or periodically. However, little effort was taken, especially in the past three-four years, to make the people aware that all these features of the city intersect at one point -- City Development Plan, popularly known as CDP. There is scope to suspect that citizens were purposefully kept in dark about the start of the process for revising the CDP or preparing CDP-II for the city. Even the Mayor and Municipal Com...