Ahmedabad’s Dariyapur Town Planning Scheme No. 5 is reportedly being modified for the seventh time, nearly 76 years after the scheme was first prepared. The development, reported by Sandesh, has triggered resentment among residents and renewed questions about the long-term reliability of town-planning decisions in one of the city’s historic areas.
The report says the scheme was drafted in the early 1950s and was subsequently governed by the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976. It refers to Sections 70 and 71 of the Act as the legal provisions under which changes have been made to the scheme. The report does not provide the text of the latest notification, the exact nature of the proposed changes or the parcels and roads that may be affected.
Town Planning Schemes are intended to reorganise land parcels, roads, public reservations and development patterns through a formal statutory process. In Dariyapur, the repeated revisions have become a source of concern because the scheme had already received final sanction, according to the report. The latest change is described as a further modification issued through a new public notice.
Sandesh reports that local residents are questioning why a scheme prepared decades ago has required seven modifications. Their concern, as presented in the report, is not limited to the number of revisions but also to the uncertainty that repeated changes can create for property owners, tenants, road access, redevelopment decisions and public reservations. The supplied report does not specify whether the latest modification changes plot boundaries, development rights, road alignments or civic amenities.
The report also carries allegations from local residents that municipal authorities are pursuing changes according to their own preferences. These allegations are not attributed to a named official or supported in the supplied material by the municipal corporation’s response. No statement from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, the state town-planning department or another competent authority is included in the report.
Dariyapur occupies a significant place in Ahmedabad’s civic and political history. The report notes that the ward is associated with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who was elected from the historic ward before becoming president of the Ahmedabad Municipality. That history adds significance to the debate over how planning decisions in the area have evolved, but it does not by itself establish the reasons for the latest modification.
The immediate public-interest question is what the seventh revision changes and why it has been initiated now. Those details will need to be established from the official public notice, the sanctioned scheme documents and the municipal or state authority responsible for the process. Until those records and an official response are available, the reported modification and the residents’ allegations require verification.
