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Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer

How has an inappropriate urban land use policy accounted for undesirable development in and around metropolitan cities ?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Contemporary Issues

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Indian urban land use policy works through four instruments — the statutory master plan, the floor space index (FSI), the development authority as land monopolist, and ceiling and green-belt designations. Each was written to order growth; each, applied without reference to how land markets clear, produced what it forbade.

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  • The Master Plan: Single-Use Zoning on a Twenty-Year Clock
  • The Floor Space Index Cap: Pushed Outward Instead of Upward
  • Ceiling Law and Green Belt: Supply Withdrawn, Demand Untouched
  • The Authority and the Vacuum Beyond It
  • The Outcomes, Traced Back to Their Instrument
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