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Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has launched ground work for the development of local areas and land association policy by calling on proposals for their execution through open offers.
The application for proposals (RFP) was announced by the urban development body, through which the proposals for experienced consultants for association of land and the development of the area (LADP) were designed.
The RFP document was admitted to Lacunae when implementing the main plans in HMDA jurisdiction, especially with regard to the main, arterial and subarterial roads, many of which remain unexpected, resulting in stable land that is inaccessible to development in the phase method, RFP said.
As a result, development in many parts of the Metropolitan Hyderabad (HMR) region (HMR) was unstructured, unregulated and often unauthorized, lacking access to roads, public services and necessary public services. For this reason, HMDA is often forced to “retrofit” the infrastructure in response to unplanned growth, which is ineffective and costly, and also undermines a long -term vision of fair and sustainable urbanization.
As regards land association, the existing legal framework suffers from limited implementability and lacks the robustness needed to support the “extensive, integrated, participating and inclusive” initiative in the development of cities, said the RFP document, stated that HMDA is concerned with “transformative planning”.
It is modeled after successful territorial planning programs in Gujarat and Bhubaneswar and allows fair land reconstructions, briefing of suitcase infrastructure and structured release of exerted land, he said.
“This participating approach ensures that both landowners and the public sector benefit from coordinated urban expansion. Critical aim is to democratize access to the road across the metropolitan region and ensure that no land remains isolated or excluded from developing opportunities.
The consultant agency is expected to provide end-to-end support in the introduction of LPad, including the legal, regulatory and implementation framework that will work inside. After consulting with HMDA, the agency should identify at least 10 potential websites of approximately 5,000 acres on the basis of the main plan and prepare a conceptual report for each of these websites. Based on the concept reports, HMDA will be a narrower list of two projects and the agency should conduct preliminary feasibility studies for both projects.
The Agency will conduct a reconnaissance survey to assess the conditions of locations, evaluate places on the basis of existing formulas of land use and permissible activities, to analyze proximity to understand the potential for the monetization of excess land assets and estimate the cost of infrastructure. It also analyzes the soil valuation and is assumed that the developmental values after the scheme, in addition to preliminary analysis of financial viability, which includes the anticipated revenues, phases and risk factors. A part of an agreement to be signed with the agency is a market survey that measures sentiment and expectations of investors and wording of strategies that attract private investments.
Based on the analytics, HMDA will select one site from two, where the consultant agency will have to carry out a pilot project.
Published – June 20, 2025 20:51 is
