Patna Regional Development Authority (Hindi: पटना क्षेत्रीय विकास प्राधिकरण{{#invoke:Namespace detect|main}}), abbreviated as PRDA, is a body of the Government of Bihar that is responsible for the infrastructure development of the city Patna. It was established by the Bihar State Government with the sole purpose of the developing the infrastructure of the Patna region.

Overview [link]

The Patna Regional Development Authority undertakes developmental activities in various sectors such as architecture, town planning, and engineering. It intends to alter the entire facade of the city of Patna and make it one of the top metropolis' in the Indian subcontinent. The Patna Regional Development Authority targets expansion projects to keep pace with the increase in the population of the city of Patna. The demand for more plots, homes, and flats will be catered to by this project undertaken by the Patna Regional Development Authority.

The Patna Regional Development Authority also intends to take on the construction of parks, playgrounds, movie theaters, multiplexes, shopping malls, clubs, etc. The PRDA also undertakes the extension work on the roads in the city of Patna.^[1]

Metropolitan Planning Authority [link]

The state urban development department is thinking in terms of setting up the Metropolitan Planning Authority (MPA). A Bill in this regard will be tabled in the Winter Session of Bihar Assembly.

The constitution of MPA will smooth en the implementation of the proposed Master Plan of Patna.

The MPA would have over riding power over Patna Municipal Corporation which has so far been looking after the development of urban infrastructure in municipal areas.

According to sources the department has finalized the draft Bihar Urban Planning Development Bill 2012 to pave the way for the constitution of MPA, which will have its operational jurisdiction over more than 2,000 square kilometres land area on which the proposed Master Plan of Patna is to be executed.

The area is spread over the peripheries of Patna, besides, its mnimicipal juridscition and also Masaurhi, Fatuha, Sonepur, and Hajipur.

The Ahmadabad-based Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University would submit the comprehensive and revised Master Plan of Patna by the time the Bill is tabled in the state Assembly. The University has already submitted its draft of the Master Plan to solicit comments and incorporate modifications suggested by the Urban Development Department.

According to the Urban Development Department Minister Prem Kumar the CEPT University had been told to revise the draft Master Plan in keeping with other schemes for infrastructural development like building of mono-rail and Ganga front.^[2]

Patna Vision 2021 [link]

The more optimistic of Patna’s citizens, aware of the settlements unbroken tryst with history as an apex capital, seek revival of Patna as a focus for global investments in quality activities, tourism, health and education through clean environments, inter and intra city accessibility and quality infrastructure and Governance. This vision although is broadly in line with draft Master plan 2021, it appears to be slightly more optimistic, which may work well to drive the city towards betterment. The CDP has attempted to explain the vision in backdrop of recent bifurcation of the Stateloss of resources, Patna’s importance in the region, primate perspective and natural setting. The vision envisaged in the CDP emphasizes on the efficiency improvement, institutional/ governance improvements and infrastructure investment. The CDP has attempted to identify and outline the Developmental Issue of the Patna in a sectoral manner but the integration among all these may be a good idea.^[3]

Patna will be developed as a world class city with satellite towns, high-rise buildings, expressways and wetlands on the lines of metropolitan cities by 2021.^[4] The Master Plan was unveiled by the Patna Regional Development Authority (PRDA) for a "big and beautiful Patna" like Mumbai and Delhi by 2021 has some startling facts and figures. While the present Patna urban area consisting of Patna municipal area, Dinapur Nizamat, Danapur cantonment and their outgrowth is 140 km², it is projected to expand to 333.2 km².^[5]

Patna of today (140 square km) will be developed into a metropolitan city spread over 330 square km. A new township of Greater Patna, bound by 200 feet and 120 feet expressways on the four sides with cluster of high-rise buildings, following all the norms of disaster management, on the south and west of the Bypass road, from Fatuha to Bihta, will also be developed. Another 15 square km township-cum-commercial hub, housing mainly the IT sector, would be developed on the new land made available by the receding Ganga from Rajapur Pool to Digha Ghat. A feasibility report is expected to be completed by September 2008. The city will have its own Mass Rapid Transportation System (MRTS) inspired by Delhi Metro Railway, Marine Drive alongside Ganga river like the one in Mumbai, flyovers at Exhibition road Dakbunglow Chauraha Income Tax Golambar and Boring Canal road on the lines of flyovers in Kolkata to avoid traffic snarls and Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the overhauling of drainage to avoid water logging in low lying areas during inclement weather. The motto of the Master Plan is not to change or alter the infrastructure of the city by demolition drive but to shape the city by converting it into planned development areas as per the norms of the Community Development Programme (CDP) by providing better infrastructure to the denizens like proper sanitation, urban drainage management, multi-storied parking lot in commercial hubs, for beautification of the state capital. The Master Plan is a micro-level vision document to shape the growing structure of the city with the optimum utility of the funds sanctioned by the government for urban development. The features in the Master Plan to solve the problem of waterlogging by developing lagoons and wetlands alongside low-lying areas and constructing powerful pumping stations to drain out the water through centralised mechanical means. The wetlands and lagoons could be used for commercial recreation and farmlands to develop a green land on the outskirts making the state capital eco-friendly.^[6]

In 2008, the Bihar government decided to appoint Vadodara's Karan Grover and Associates to prepare the master plan.

The firm would prepare the detailed project report (DPR) of the new buildings of the state assembly, the secretariat and the proposed planning department office (Yojna Bhawan) in the first phase.

In the second phase, DPRs for a museum and development of green belts would be prepared keeping in mind Patna's heritage.^[7]

See also [link]

• Patna New City
• Patna Municipal Corporation

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