How Mumbai created civic history

August 11, 2014 marked a historic day for urban planning and governance in India with Mumbai leading the way. For the first time since Independence, a municipal corporation, namely the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai​ (MCGM), initiated public consultations at the ward level during the process of preparing the city’s development plan.What the MCGM has done is pioneering because it expands the planning process by opening up the new DP (valid from 2014-34) to public participation in the preparation stage itself rather than after the final draft has been prepared, as specified in the Act. This is to be commended because it starts from the premise of what is good planning rather than restricting itself to what is specified by our outdated Town Planning Acts. http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standpoint-how-mumbai-created-civic-history-2013509