City without a Master Plan

Bengaluru is perhaps the only capital city in India without a working Master Plan. A Master Plan is a statutory framework that regulates the development of buildings, roads, and infrastructure, shaping the future growth of a city.

The last Master Plan, created in 2005, has not been updated for eight years, leading to a chaotic development pattern with unplanned land use changes associated with high-density development, especially on the outskirts (Conurbation limits). Although the Revised Master Plan 2031 was prepared by BDA in 2015 and underwent the requisite public participation (with 14,000 objections), it was later cancelled in 2022. As a consequence, all the maps and documents related to the Revised Master Plan 2031 were removed from BDA’s website.