[Reader-list] slaughterhouse land use change

[Ritika]

In the latest drama to change the land use of the idgah slaughterhouse, 
the MCD commissioner Rakesh Mehta, has asked the Urban development 
ministry to change the land use of idgah site from residential to 
commercial. The MCD's plan is to develop the seven acre land as 
entertainment and shopping site for walled city. "There can be 
multiplexes and shopping malls with business activity around it," Mehta 
said (Hindustan Times, August 14, 2004)

Interestingly, on 6th may 2003, MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND 
POVERTY ALLEVIATION had issued a public notice: It is proposed to change 
the land use of an area measuring an area of 2.61 ha, from residential 
to extensive industrial with leave to set up a 'H' category Unit, i.e. 
Abattoir House at Idgah area

http://www.delhiscienceforum.org/dmp2021/documents/A_Idgah.htm

Gita Dewan Verma a noted activist planner had raised many issues on the 
Public Notice.
Commenting on the land use of the walled city as envisaged by the Master 
Plan she says that since 1962 the Master Plan has emphasized the 
conservation of Walled City by checking conflicting land uses and 
shifting of noxious industries on a priority basis . The 2021 Plan 
includes Special Area status for Walled City and heritage conservation .
b) Residential areas predominate in the Walled City and the Plan 
prohibits the mixing of residential and industrial land use .Therefore, 
it is unacceptable to regularize non-conforming units in residential 
areas . The State cannot use for commercial purposes land which is meant 
for the community.

One can see this existing land use change as one way of 
legitimising/regularising the work that goes on ...but are there any 
other ways of looking at such debates?

anxious
ritika