Academic experience · Town Planning Schemes
Charholi Town Planning Scheme, Pimpri Chinchwad
Land pooling and valuation mechanics in an ecologically sensitive zone with difficult terrain and a hot real estate market.
Pimpri Chinchwad, Maharashtra · M.Plan
Context
Charholi combines three conditions that each make a Town Planning Scheme harder, and together make it genuinely difficult: an ecologically sensitive zone, challenging terrain, and a high-demand real estate market.
The sensitivity and terrain constrain what can be built and where. The market pressure raises what every owner believes their land is worth. A TPS has to reconcile those in a single valuation and contribution structure that owners will accept.
Mandate
Studying land pooling and valuation mechanics under exactly those conditions, guided by faculty affiliated with HCP Design, Planning & Management Consultants.
Approach
The core of the study was how contribution ratios and valuation hold up when the underlying land is neither uniform nor uncontested. Terrain means plots are not equivalent; ecological constraint means some contributed land cannot be developed at all; and a high-demand market means the gap between Ready Reckoner value and market expectation is wide.
Working under HCP-affiliated faculty put the study close to the practice that has implemented TPS at scale in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Method & Tools
Spatial analysis of the scheme area against ecological and terrain constraints, and valuation analysis of the pooling mechanics under those constraints.
Outcome
A completed study of land pooling and valuation mechanics for the Charholi scheme area, produced as part of the M.Plan programme at CEPT University. It is the direct academic precedent for the TPS drafting work I now do at NMRDA.