The State Government has decided to develop the surrounding areas of Haldia, in order to extend the Haldia Industrial Zone.
For this purpose the Haldia Development Authority has called for a tender for developing a ‘Land Use and Development Control Plan’ (LUDCP). The company conducting the survey would have to submit the report within 88 weeks, as per one of the conditions in the tender. A comprehensive industrial development plan would be created on the basis of the land use maps.
Three surrounding blocks of Haldia – Shahid Matangini, Kolaghat and Panskura – would be part of this development plan. A total of 805 square kilometres would be covered in the exercise.
Mouza-based digitised land use maps would be created as part of the LUDCP. Locations of agricultural plots, rivers, lakes, ponds, canals, gardens, forests, houses, railway tracks, roads, etc. – everything would be marked on these maps.
The help of satellite images as well as social-economic surveys would be used to create the maps. Differential GPS (DGPS) would be used for conducting the survey.
Source: Ei Samay