PRESENTED BY:-ANAND PATEL (RP14049)VIJAY LAMBA (RP14057)AMARDEEP PANDEY (RP14054)RAHUL DHANIK (RP14068)

National Institute of Construction Management & ResearchPune, India

Lavasa ?

Progress and plans?

Controversies ?

Solutions?

Lavasa is an independent India's first planned hill city.

Urban infrastructure project.

Design.

Permanent population.

Concept : Life in Full.

Construction of two out of the five planned towns are ongoing.

Number of residences have been completed as of 2013.

By 2011 four hotels and a city centre were completed.

It is estimated that Lavasa will not be finished before 2020.

The project confirmed that Lavasa will include four large towns and one low-cost town.

Harm to the environment.

Procurement of land.

Loans acquired through political corruption.

Some other controversies.

Lavasa didn’t get clearance under Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 1994.

State’s environment dept issued permissions without statutory powers to do so.

Violations of environmental laws, including haphazard cutting of hills which result in result in landslides, high erosion, and consequent siltation of water bodies.

All work unauthorized construction > 1,000 meters(altitude)– against policy

Indian Ministry of Environmental & Forest(MoEF) has declared this project illegal and they cease the project in November 2010.

Reason: the company had failed to obtain environmental clearance from the Union ministry.

Later MoEF provided clearance on November 2011 to Lavasa with some specific conditions.

Both government and individual land owners have taken issue with Lavasa’s land acquisition approach.

INDIVIDUAL LAND OWNER

•Land being acquired by hook or crook.

•Land purchased at government rates when market rates are much higher.

Complaints by Land owners regarding:

-Loss of land.-Bouncing of cheques.-Threats and living in constant fear.

GOVERNMENT

*Lavasa Corporation purchased the land from farmers and they are liable to pay 3\4 of the purchased price to the government but they paid only 2%.

*They bought 98 hectares of land without license.

Sharad Pawar is alleged to have demanded compensation for allowing Lavasa to be constructed.

Relatives of Pawar had part-ownership of the company developing the project.

Pawar's daughter and son-in-law had more than 20% ownership between 2002 and 2004.

The water from Varasgaon Dam is diverted to Lavasa, it will cause a supply shortage to Pune city.

Lavasa plan does not conform to the procedures in the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act of 1966.

The buildings are almost touching the water body; the state government had permitted construct at a distance of 50m from the reservoir which was reduced to 30m and then 15m.

Residential: Laws changed to allow construction on steep slopes.

Commercial: Laws changed to allow mixed land use—commercial and residential—in the town centre.

Water: Buildings and roads close to the water body, at 5 to 15 meter distance. Oil and sludge from vehicles and runoff could affect lake’s water quality.

Hospital: No plans for disposal of bio-medical waste on-site.

First step - to investigate the corruption that seems to be a part & parcel of Lavasa.

If the corruption is exposed, finding the irregularities should be easy.

Lavasa doesn’t look like a bad idea.

THANK YOU !!!