The Industrialisation policy instituted
by the Government for providing faster economic development has stimulated
the growth of urban elements in Residential, Commercial, Industrial,
Communication, Recreation, Traffic and Transportation and such other
components to an unprecedented level in major urban centres in Tamil Nadu.
Especially, the Information Technology and Information Technology Enabled
Services Industries (IT & ITES ) have further boosted such rapid developments.
These boosters contributed to haphazard growth in the fringe areas of
several towns and cities.
The urbanization, an offshoot of
Industrialization, is though a welcome feature in terms of economic
productivity and social development, in the absence of an effective
physical and spatial planning and a strict control mechanism, will become
significant contributory factor to the evils of the society. While serious
efforts for streamlining the process of urbanization are taken, proper
infrastructure and civic amenities must be provided and a safe living
environ must be ensured to the public. The importantance of strict
enforcement of development controls to ensure healthy, comfortable and safe
environment to the present and future generations also cannot be belittled.
Tiruchirappalli and its environs are
abundant with economic and social activity facilitated by rapid
developments in residential, educational, commercial, industrial, recreational and
traffic and transportation sectors. And it is necessary that citizens are
well informed of the know-how of the urban development and its control
mechanisms towards an orderly development and congenial living conditions
for which they have every right as well.