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Jahed Stetter
Mumbai: The state government has removed 80 of the total 174 villages falling under Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Notified Area (NAINA). As a result, City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), the Special Planning Authority (SPA) of NAINA, is left with only 94 villages to be developed.
In a notification issued on March 4, the state Urban Development Department (UDD) has decided to hand over 80 villages to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for development. Besides, it also handed over the Khopta township, comprising 33 villages, to be developed by MMRDA.
CIDCO has finalised 12 town planning schemes (TPS) to develop NAINA. Of these, infrastructural development of TPS 1 is complete while it is in the process of floating tenders for TPS 2-8, which is likely to be completed within next few months. Once the tenders are floated and contractor chosen, the infrastructure development of TPS 2-8 will begin immediately and would be completed within stipulated time.
While giving environmental clearance for the proposed NMIA, the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) laid a major condition to the CIDCO wherein it stated that the masterplan and development plan of Navi Mumbai shall be revised and recast given the airport development. It also asked the CIDCO to ensure that no unplanned or haphazard growth comes around the proposed airport.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has been given control over 80 of the 174 villages that were previously under the Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Notified Area (NAINA) project. The state's Urban Development Department (UDD) made this decision public in a notification on March 4.
According to reports, MMRDA is responsible for planning and developing this coastal route. Hence, the government found it fitting to transfer the development rights of the surrounding villages to MMRDA.
The MMRDA will also develop the Khopta township, also known as Third Mumbai. But, it is yet to be seen if these 113 villages, 80 from NAINA and 33 from Khopta township, will be developed by the New Town Development Authority (NTDA) or Special Planning Authority (SPA). An official order from the UDD on this is awaited.
The Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has placed a condition on CIDCO for the NMIA. The condition asks for a review and recast of Navi Mumbai's development plan in light of the airport's development.
The location of the current project is in the peri-urban areas of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. As per the Regional Plan 2016-36, the region has 32% of its land under urbanization, and the rest 68% of the land is under forests, mangroves, mudflats, intertidal zones, and plantation zones (Appendix 3). There are numerous farming, fishing, and tribal communities whose livelihoods depend on these zones' immediate natural environment. In many cases, these communities locate themselves around water bodies that form their primary source of water. However, due to increasing urbanization in the periphery, these villages' resources are under pressure due to the migrant population that serves the upcoming townships. These existing villages, in such cases, become the places for the arrival of such migrants.
In the absence of any structured water and sanitation system, in these villages, any rapid increase in population leads to untreated sewage, wastewater, and solid waste, polluting the groundwater table. The municipalities in the periphery of the region that struggle to provide infrastructure to these new townships do not have any resources to implement centralized water and sanitation solutions for these villages. In some cases, they focus on existing water bodies and build concrete edges with walkways and manicured gardens in the name of beautification. It leads to a loss of riparian biodiversity, storm-water interception, and microclimatic disruptions by creating heat islands apart from affecting communities whose livelihoods were often dependent on these lakes.
Thus the proposal innovation is to design a passive decentralized wastewater, sewage, and solid-waste system managed by the inhabitants of these villages and integrate them with the surrounding ecosystem. SPARC and community-based organizations would build the communities' capacity and make a plan to treat the wastewater and sewage that would receive a primary anaerobic treatment through reed beds. The villagers could then use the nutrient-rich water in the surrounding lake and the agricultural fields that they own.
Thus, this project will impact the place's micro-climate by protecting biodiversity, reducing emission, pollution, and flooding, and augmenting livelihoods. Scaling such a project through similar villages in the metropolitan region can have a meaningful impact on protecting vulnerable communities from climate change brought about by unplanned urbanization. For this stage, the proposal is to map habitations with lakes in the region, create federations where possible, and develop a plan for a demonstration to submit to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to further invest in such projects.
In order to tap into the potential of these growing areas, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) policies will be implemented to facilitate organised development, optimal planning and land utilisation, creating pedestrian-friendly built environments while maximising access to the public transit infrastructure.
The MMR was first notified in 1967 with an area of 3,965 sq km while the MMRDA was set up in 1974 as the administrative body for planning and coordination of development work in the region. Now, the MMR consists of eight municipal corporations (Greater Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivali, Navi Mumbai, Ulhasnagar, Bhiwandi- Nizamapur, Vasai-Virar and Mira-Bhayandar) and nine municipal councils (Ambarnath, Kulgaon-Badlapur, Matheran, Karjat, Panvel, Khopoli, Pen, Uran, and Alibaug), along with more than 1,000 villages in Thane and Raigad districts.
The move is aimed at providing a holistic development and planning of these satellite towns. As the rising population in and around Mumbai is saturating the available resources, many people are now moving to these satellite towns for easier access to resources such as housing. With this move, the MMRDA will be able to execute development plans in these localities now.
The Kalyan Growth Centre, under the aegis of the SPA and MMRDA's Sub-Regional Office in Thane, encompasses ten villages in the Kalyan Taluka, spanning approximately 1089 hectares. This Centre is slated to host major township projects that align with the broader vision of comprehensive, sustainable, and robust development within MMR. The initiative is not only focused on propelling economic growth but also on enhancing the quality of life for the region's large communities. It promises a future characterized by polycentric development, dispersed job opportunities, affordable housing, and integrated health and educational infrastructures, all complemented by abundant green open spaces.
Abstract:Peri-urban areas in developing countries pose unique governance challenges because of their rapid development. Villages in these areas are under-served in terms of the provision of waste management services. This research focused on an exploratory workshop conducted in one peri-urban village in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India, to raise community awareness regarding the importance of contributing towards effective waste management in their village and the means by which they can do so. The findings of the workshop show its effectiveness in raising the awareness levels of self-help group members. In addition to these findings, causal loop diagrams were drawn to construct effective institutional mechanisms from the perspective of the capacities of the participants and the officials. This study examined the policy initiatives necessary for meeting the sanitation and waste management needs of peri-urban villages. Inferences regarding the institutionalization of linkages between self-help groups and local bodies were made based on the principles of sociocracy. Theoretical insight was provided regarding the different factors affecting this system, and how this model is flexible enough to accommodate the contextual needs of peri-urban villages.Keywords: linkages; local participation; rural local body; self-help groups; waste management
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