Draft master plan to be ready by April

Meeting of stakeholder committee, headed by Mayor, to be held on February 7

After the botched attempt to draw up a master plan for Kochi some two decades ago, the Kochi Corporation is once again attempting to prepare a document, which would define the contours of the development of the city for the next few decades.

The earlier attempt was made during the term of C.M. Dinesh Mani as Mayor. The draft plan document was made for the Greater Cochin area, which included the neighbouring municipalities and panchayats. The earlier document considered the urban agglomerate of Kochi as one unit and prepared the document, which didn’t go down well with the other local bodies.

The plan document could not be finalised at the time as the civic representatives of the neighbouring local bodies questioned the vision document prepared by the Kochi Corporation, which covered their areas too. This time, the corporation has decided to restrict itself to its boundaries and frame the vision document accordingly, said Mayor M. Anilkumar.