Bhubaneswar: The state capital's Vision 2030, drafted to address the future needs of the city, has taken a hit with the development authority not doing enough to implement the comprehensive development plan (CDP).

The CDP provides a framework to plan the city's land use pattern. It sets out a spatial strategy for 14 planning sub-zones of the city to address their needs. Accordingly, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority had prepared the CDP for the city's 204 mouzas.

For example, Vani Vihar is one of the mouzas of the city and according to the CDP prepared for the area, there should be zones for public and semi-public use, open spaces, residential zones, river, canals and water bodies. In reality, the area does have these zones, but has not been implemented as shown in the CDP map.

This has happened as the implementation of land use planning is almost nil. As a consequence, irregular and unplanned construction and infrastructure work have mushroomed in almost all mouzas of the city. Rapid encroachments across the city have added to the problem.

"According to the vision document, there are seven different corridors in the city and the CDP provides the strategy to keep them they way they should be. The city is growing and we are making all round efforts to keep the CDP intact for each mouza. It is being done in phased manner," said a development authority official.

Moreover, the development authority keeps on modifying the CDP for various areas in a periodic manner depending on the infrastructure projects being planned for that zone.

"It is a regular task to modify the development plan according to the need of the projects and the people," said the official.

The BDA has further divided the city into nine prominent hubs and prepared the CDP as per their need. However, except for a few, the creation of the hubs in keeping with the plan is almost invisible. According to the plan, Chandrasekharpur should be an educational hub, while southern Khurda would be the textile hub.

However, in reality, Chandrasekharpur houses major hospitals, star hotels and government offices. This makes it an administrative hub. Similarly, southern Khurda or Jatni does not have any sign of textile industry.

"Bhubaneswar is one of the planned cities after Chandigarh. The vision document has been prepared to keep the plan component intact with the CDP in place. But if the officials continue to do nothing for its implementation, rapid urbanisation will definitely convert the city into a one of the most congested cities of the country," said urban planner Piyush Rout.