Transcript New Town Development and Urban Renewal

New Town Development
and Urban Renewal
Country Report Prepared for Korea
Singapore TCTP Program
By
Sanjaya Kumar Khanal
Prakash Mohan Joshi
Nepal
NEPAL
Nepal
Area (sq km.)
Population (2001)
Population Growth Rate (1991-2001)
Population Density (Persons/sq.km)
Urban Population
GDP per capita (2001)
Total Road Length (kms.)
Life Expectancy
Male
Female
Literacy Rate
147,181
23 Million
2.2%
180
14%
US$ 320
15,905
59.4 years
58.6 years
57 %
Geography
• Geographical Regions
– High Himalayan Region: snowcapped mountains, transHimalayan valleys sparsely populated and mostly nonarable. No road links yet. Coveted destination for
mountaineers.
– Mid Mountain Region: Mostly inhabited. Some clusters and
other places very scattered. Sometimes has to go miles
from settlement to another. District Headquarters mostly
linked.
– Terai Region: Plains, fertile granary, heavily populated, well
linked by roads. More amenable to construction works
Ministry of Labor and Transport Management
MINISTER
SECRETARY
Labour Mgt.
Monitoring, Human
Resource &
Technical Dept
Labour
Management
Section
Human
Resource Dev.
& Employment
Section
Policy, Planning,
Research &
International Relations
Department
Policy, Planning
& Documentation
Section
Child Labour &
International
Relation Section
Transport
Management
Department
Corporation &
Transport Mgt.
Transport
Planning
Administration
Section
Dept. of Labor &
Employment
Promotion
Occupational
Safety & Health
Project
Skill Dev.
Training
Centers (14)
Vocational
Centers (2)
Labour Offices
(10)
Mandate
• Planning and implementation of policies,
programs, strategies for employment promotion,
industrial relations, social protection,
occupational health and safety.
• Planning and implementation of policies,
programs and strategies for the management of
transports.
• Shares this functions with many other ministries
such as Ministry of Physical Planning and
Works, Ministry of Local Development,
Municipalities, Several Town Development
Committees.
Present Status
• Capital City Kathmandu largest with Population of 1
million. Four other municipalities within the valley having
more than 50,000 population.
• 58 municipalities including five regional and 75 district
headquarters outside Kathmandu.
• 132 small towns and market centers.
• 7 world heritage sites.
• Only 60 out of 75 district headquarters are connected
by roads.
• On average every km. of road serves about 1200
people.
• 5 new settlements developed in the margins of
Kathmandu.
• A new project is proposed for more systematic new
town development – Harisiddhi.
Issues
• Coordination of multi-sectoral agencies and
investment and synchronizing their policies,
priorities and allocations
• Increasing industrial and vehicular pollution and
degradation of socio-cultural and natural
environment.
• Inadequate convergence and weak compliance and
enforcement of policies…
• Aging and overstretched infrastructures
• Weakness of Town Development Committees
• Suboptimal trade offs and financing of programs
• Centralization of opportunities
Measures Taken
• Introduction of building permit mechanism.
• Establishment of Town Development Fund.
• Physical Plans for all Town Development
Committees.
• Rural urban partnership program.
• Renovation of old monuments and cultural sites.
• Kathmandu Valley 2020.
• Efforts to develop satellite towns.
• Urban Environment improvement project.
• Introduction of electrical vehicles.
Major Policies and Legislations
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National Housing Policy
National Transport Policy
20-Years’ Perspective Road Plan
Public Infrastructure Building and Transfer Policy
The Building Code
Town Development Act, 1989
Ancient Monuments Conservation Act, 1957
Road Board Act, 2002
Building Act, 1998
Local Governance Act, 1998
Others: Land Acquisition Act, Public Road Act,
Transportation Act.
Major Policies and Legislations
• All of them aim at:
– Checking uncontrolled haphazard urbanization,
– Promoting safe and affordable housing,
– Conserving cultural, touristic and historical sites and
heritage,
– Attracting greater participation of private sector and
public in general in building infrastructures,
– Introducing of users’ cost, road fund board for
maintenance of roads,
– Deepening rural urban linkages
– Integrating urban development plan into one.
Vision for country
Development of a safe, beautiful,
comfortable, green, healthy, socially
harmonious
and
affordable
urban
settlements and renovation of old towns,
old architectural heritage sites keeping
with distinct Nepalese local traditions.
Thank You
for
Your Kind Attention.
Dhanyabad