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Zoning atlas: Programme overview
Training of
Planners
The planning departments of cities and municipalities have a
crucial role in environmentally compatible land use management, which plays a
key role in achieving sustainable development. They, however, lack the needed
instruments and skills to incorporate the results of environmental plans into
urban planning. Environmentally compatible Masterplans and development plans
are, therefore, practically non-existent. As a consequence, environmental
conditions in many cities of India are rapidly deteriorating.
To bridge
the gap between environment and urban planning, a series of training programmes
are being conducted by CPCB for the planners from the Planning/Development
Authorities
Conclusion
CPCB had successfully completed
the work taken up in the first phase and second phase of the project. Initial
efforts were put in to develop methodologies, test them and refine them. Also,
efforts were put in to develop trained manpower and install the needed
facilities.
The budget is now available for the period 1997 to 2003.
Teams with qualified staff have been built at CPCB and at most SPCBs that are
participating in the programme. The needed facilities and equipment are already
installed at CPCB and are under installation at SPCBs. The needed
data/information is being collected through participatory role of various
resource organisations. An environmental database is being created with the
expert organisations. The expertise of foreign agencies within the country and
abroad is being utilised to produce high quality and reliable outputs in
relatively shorter time using the latest technology (remote sensing, GIS etc.).
Efforts are being put in to implement the results.
India is a vast
country and has diversified regions. The solutions developed at CPCB had inputs
from the German planning system, the pilot studies conducted for Pondicherry on
planned industrial development by CPCB, the pilot studies conducted for Hassan
District (Karnataka) by the Karnataka State Council for Science & Technology
and GTZ and the experience of the engineers and scientists of CPCB. The
environmental planning programme of CPCB includes many custom-made solutions.
The studies were transferable to all parts of the country with modifications.
Planned development is what everyone might like to have, but what has not been
done over several years cannot be done over night. The solutions and experiences
of CPCB could come handy for various organisations within the country.
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