Jaipur Master plan 2025 Review Ramapathi, Sainath

Jaipur Master Plan 2025

Jaipur is the capital city of Rajasthan also known as the “Pink city” which is having a
population of 3 million. It is the largest urban agglomeration in Rajasthan. And the city is
growing in a fast pace and the infrastructure development is not in accordance. So it’s very
important to have a look into the state of urban planning in the city and intervene if
necessary. Jaipur development authority, the administrative authority of Jaipur started making
the masterplan-2025 in continuation to the previous attempts of 1976 and 1998.

Jaipur is rich in its built and cultural heritage which boosts its tourism sector. Master
plan 2025 tries to solve the conflict in interest between the conservation of heritage buildings
and the use of such building for tourism. The master plan also looks in to the prospect of
increasing traffic inside the city and the ways to decongest it. Master plan-2025 not only give
importance to the existing city region, It also gave insights to the peripheral areas which have
the potential to grow, the satellite towns around the city and the environmental sensitive areas
adjacent to the city limits.

Contents of the Jaipur Master Plan 2025

Jaipur master plan consist of 4 volumes, Ist volume –deals with the district wise,
region wise and the city wise study of existing conditions and issues. Second volume gives
the idea about the projected population and the infrastructure required and its deficiency at
present. It also gives policies and strategies for tackling the issues. Third volume deals with
the master plans of 12 satellite towns around the Jaipur city. And the fourth volume gives
insight to the development control regulations for the region.

Vision for the Jaipur region as mentioned in the master plan is to make the city a world class
global metropolis with reduced unemployment and with a better quality of life.

Critical issues discussed in the master plan 2025 is of land, housing, physical
infrastructure, ecology, transport, environment, socio-cultural, and other institutional
facilities. And some strategies for inclusive planning, various housing options, up gradation
of infrastructure, preservation of natural and heritage sites, and provision of amenities were
given in the master plan 2025.
 The development region was finalised based on the growth potentials, growth
direction and growth mechanism. From these studies the areas of imbalance and growth
potentials were identified. For this purpose, economic indicators, facility indicators and
transport indicators were used.

In master plan 2025, the regional setting of Jaipur region is studied. The
demographics were studied and projected its population and its infrastructure requirements.
The main issues in the region are low literacy rates among women and low sex ratio. They
have given proposals for the infrastructure projects to cater the future needs. The master plan
also gives insights to the housing scenario, shortage and its future requirement and it gives
policies like township policy, housing policy, slum relocation policies and some new
residential schemes are proposed in the master plan.

Proposals and strategies, for decentralising the walled city which is acting as the
current central business district in Jaipur region are given in the master plan. And walled city
is where 60 % of the trade and commerce are concentrated. Mixed use zones are proposed in
roads having width more than 18 feet in order to reduce congestion inside the walled city.
New industrial areas are also proposed along with strategies for shifting the household
industries from walled city.

Master plan gives guidelines for the heritage conservation of the city and lists the
heritage buildings that can be used for tourism purposes. One transportation tunnel is
proposed in the master plan to deviate the busy traffic from the heritage zones.

As the roads in Jaipur have enough widths to accommodate the present traffic there is
not much proposals for the widening of roads. New bus terminals are proposed as the city is
subjected to grow its limits. And a metro transit system is proposed in the master plan. Each
road is assigned with different design details and specific usages that can be allowed along its
passage.

Detailed guidelines for urban design is given in the master plan in different zones like
rail corridors, bus corridors, heritage areas, etc.

A detailed land use plan is proposed which will act as the statutory guideline for the
uses to be allowed in the city limits. The land use map is prepared taking consideration of all
these studies which are mentioned in the former part of the master plan.
 Some sustainable and environmental considerations are given but not in a detailed
manner and a vague idea of implementation strategies area also discussed in the master plan.
The master plan is envisaged to be implemented in 3 phases. And some general downstream
projects are listed down for the implementation with priorities. And some strategies are given
in creating assets or resources like land for the projects proposed in the master plan. But no
accurate financial costing or financial planning were done in the master plan.

Masterplan for satelite cities

Similar to the city region studies were conducted for the 12 satelite towns around the
Jaipur city and strategies , policies and land uses are proposed for the satelite towns
separately.

Development promotion and control regulations

As a framework to grant use premise permissions to the land owners, Development

promotion and control regulations are proposed in the master plan. For this pupose the
development region is divided in to 5 zones –

1, U1 - The city region 2, U2 – Peripheral regions of the city 3, U3 – Transit

corridors -500 m buffer zone of major national and state highways. 4, G1, G2 –
Ecological Zones 5, Rural area

This zoning is followed in the case of satellite towns also and the regulations mentioned in
the DPCR are valid for these satellite towns also.

Inference

The attempt and methodologies of making Jaipur master plan were good but the
outcome was not as expected as the master plan lacks detailing in several areas. But the
master plan considered not only the city region it considered the peripheral potential
urban areas, satellite towns and rural areas around. Attempts to make detailed zonal plans
were given in the master plan, but they were still under pipeline. In DPCR not much
efforts were given for a construction framework rather it was concentrated in constraining
or permitting land uses. No serious efforts have been made for a detailed fiscal planning
of the projects proposed.