Objectives of a Master Plan
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Objectives of a Master Plan

The purpose of a Master Plan is to promote growth and guide and regulate present and future development of towns and cities. It is an instrument to work out land and infrastructure requirements for various urban and rural uses, and allocate land for various uses to result in harmonious and sustainable distribution of activities so that towns / cities are provided with a form and structure within which they can perform all their economic and social functions efficiently and effectively.

The term “Development Plan” is used differently in States. Some States use it for an integrated multi‐sector plan, such as the District Development Plan. In some other States, it is a statutory land use plan, approved and adopted by the local authority and its proposals are precise and definite, notifying the property owners the manner in which their properties will be affected. The examples of the later type are the Delhi Master Plan, Chennai Master Plan, Guwahati Master Plan, Ahmedabad Development Plan, Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Plan and Bhopal Development Plan. Here, both the plans, Development plans and Master plans have the same functions and impose similar controls, with variation in the use of nomenclatures by States.


Objectives of Master Plan


1.       to have optimal city structure within which inhabitants can perform their economic and social functions efficiently and effectively
2.       to have better quality of life
3.       To have efficient traffic and transportation network,
4.       to have rational distribution of physical and social infrastructure,
5.       to have good governance
6.       To promote sustainable development.
7.       To ensure safety from fire, flood, panic, and other natural and man-made disasters.
8.       Orderly development of undeveloped areas.
9.       Reconstructing the developed areas and improved circulation
10.   It arranges the pattern of a town in such a way so as to satisfy the present requirements without compromising the future generation’s needs.  
1.       Restricting haphazard and unplanned growth.
2.       It helps to bring harmony & understanding between the different groups of the people.
3.       It removes the defects of uncoordinated physical growth.
4.       It serves as a guide to the planning body for making any recommendations for public improvement.
5.       It stimulates wider interest in community problems.
6.       To coordinate the physical, economic, social & political forces that govern the structure of the community.
7.       To formulate long term & short term action programs with a view to injecting long term considerations into short term actions.
8.       It provides for intelligent and economic spending of the public funds as per the fixed programme for general welfare of the community.

Necessity of Master Plan


  1. To control the development of various industries in a systematic way
  2. To discourage the unscientific way of growth
  3. It serves an overall picture and program for the future development
  4. To offset the evils which have come up due to overcrowding of population such as acute shortage of houses, traffic congestion, inadequate open spaces and insufficiency in public amenities; etc.
The scope of a master plan confines to the broad proposals and allocation of land for various uses such as residential, industrial, commercial, recreational, public and semi-public, etc. It proposes a network of roads and pattern of streets and traffic circulation systems for the present and the future. A master plan identifies areas required to be preserved and conserved and development of areas of natural scenery and landscape together with preservation of features, structures or places of historical, architectural and scientific interest and environmental value. Master plan includes zoning regulations for regulating development within each zone. It also indicates stages through which the plan is proposed to be implemented. Thus, a master plan is an important instrument for guiding and regulating development of towns and cities over a period of time, and contributes to planned development both conceptually and operationally.
Master plans are generally prepared for periods of 20 to 25 years. Population projection for such plans is in fact a difficult task even though various scientific methods are adopted by planners. 
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