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Environmental management plan for Kanpur urban area
N. Raghu
Babu
Environmental Engineer Central Pollution Control Board,Parivesh
Bhawan
East Arjun Nagar, Delhi - 110 032
Ashwani Kumar
Asst.
Environmental Engineer Central Pollution Control Board, Parivesh Bhawan,
East
Arjun Nagar, Delhi - 110032
With the development, the urban
areas are growing into bigger agglomerations with ever increasing influx of
people creating demand for support services viz. water supply, transportation,
drainage/sewerage, garbage collection and disposal etc. that is far exceeding
the supply of these services. While taking up developmental activities, the
assimilative capacities of the environmental components i.e., air, water and
land to various pollution are rarely considered. Also, lack of proper land use
control is resulting in poor land use compatibility. The haphazard and
uncontrolled developmental activities leading to overuse, congestion,
incompatible landuse and creating high risk environment to the city residents in
the form of deterioration of the natural and socio-economic living conditions
which specifically includes overcrowding, congestion, lack of sufficient water
supply, unhygienic living conditions, air and noise pollution etc.
However, in large urban agglomerations, the problems cannot merely be
solved by pollution control measures such as control of pollution at source,
providing sewage treatment facilities etc. The environmental aspects are not
usually considered while preparing master plans or budget plans to produce well
co-ordinated and balanced developmental plans right at the planning stage
itself. The best use of the land needs to be assessed in terms of not only the
economic aspects but also the environmental aspects.
The spatial
planning tools can help in sustainable development. There is a need to study the
necessity of structural changes in the cities and to introduce planning
approaches that can help in achieving environmentally compatible. The pilot
study for Kanpur has been taken up to look at the possibilities of using
planning tools for environmental improvement. The GIS technology proved to be
right tool to map and analyse the spatial information.
Objectives
The overall objective of the study has been to
incorporate environmental considerations into urban planning and prepare an
Environmental Management Plan for improving the environmental quality. The
specific objectives of the study are:
- to map the characteristics and environmental profile of Kanpur and to
identify the environmental pollution hot spots;
- prepare an environmental management plan that includes rehabilitation and
mitigation measures; and
- to recommend guidelines for environmentally compatible land use planning.
The methodology for preparation of Environmental Management Plan
involves understanding the general profile of the city, assessment of the
environment quality, identification of the environmental hot spots and proposing
an environmental management plan.
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