AREIDA president PK Sarma, in a statement in Guwahati said that they have become apprehensive of the current exercise to amend the CMP 2025. “Vested interests in the GMDA in connivance with some land brokers and unscrupulous businessmen, have made huge personal and commercial gains by converting agricultural lands to industrial,commercial and other uses. Also some people have undervalued prime myadi patta land to no development zones and green belts and then convert these to industrial/commercial/public semi public/residential use, giving the vested interest huge commercial gain through such abuse of zoning regulations,” said Sarma.

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Sarma said that AREIDA wonders as to how a particular individual professor, who is out of the CEPT since April, 2014, has become the sole authority on Guwahati Master Plan, till today, as declared by GMDA. This is despite the fact that this particular person has been out of CEPT, since April 2014. This particular person is also the professional consultant for a number of private parties operating in the real estate sector in Guwahati. As such how can he be the consultant for the Master Plan, Sarma questioned. He also dared the GMDA to justify how the current dean of the CEPT has been kept quite in the dark, despite the fact that the current dean is an architect of international repute.