MPPSC Assistant Town Planner flashcards

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Threshold population

The minimum number of people needed in a service area to make a good or service economically viable; below it, providers cannot recover fixed costs and the service disappears.

Range of a good

The maximum distance a consumer is willing to travel to obtain a service; if the range is less than the threshold spacing, no supplier can survive at that location.

Rank-size rule

The population of the nth largest city equals the largest city's population divided by n; steep deviations suggest primacy or an unbalanced urban hierarchy.

Central Place Theory

Christaller's model explains settlement size and spacing as hexagonal market areas serving surrounding hinterlands, regulated by marketing, transport or administrative principles.

Neighbourhood unit concept

Clarence Perry's residential planning unit of roughly 5,000 to 15,000 people with a primary school at its centre, internal walkable streets and arterials on the boundary.

Garden City concept

Ebenezer Howard's 1898 proposal for self-contained towns of about 32,000 people surrounded by agricultural green belts, combining town amenities with countryside access.

Floor area ratio

The ratio of total built-up floor area on all floors to the plot area; it is a key development control instrument fixing permissible building volume.

Land use zoning

Legally binding designation of permitted uses, densities and building controls for parcels within a development plan, enforced through development permission and occupancy certification.

Bid-rent theory

The model in which land use is allocated by the highest rent bidder; commercial uses outbid housing near the centre, producing declining density with distance.

Primate city

A city disproportionately larger than the second-ranked city, often twice its size or more, concentrating national political, economic and cultural functions.

Madhya Pradesh area and capital

Madhya Pradesh covers about 308,252 square kilometres, was reorganised on 1 November 1956, and has Bhopal as its capital; Indore is its largest city.

Narmada river direction

The Narmada rises near Amarkantak and flows westward through a rift valley into the Arabian Sea, forming a major physiographic divide of peninsular India.

Successive percentage change

Two successive changes of a percent and b percent are equivalent to a single change of a + b + ab/100 percent, with signs applied for decreases.

Average speed formula

Average speed equals total distance divided by total time, not the arithmetic mean of the individual speeds when the segments differ in length or duration.

Boats and streams

Downstream speed equals boat speed plus current speed; upstream speed equals boat speed minus current speed; their average gives boat speed in still water.

Combination formula

The number of ways to choose r items from n without regard to order is n factorial divided by r factorial times (n minus r) factorial.

Partnership profit share

In a partnership, profit is divided in proportion to each partner's capital multiplied by the time invested, not merely by capital contributed.

MP industrial towns

Pithampur in Dhar district, Dewas, Mandideep near Bhopal, Malanpur near Gwalior and Nagda are among Madhya Pradesh's key industrial and urban growth nodes.

74th Amendment Act 1992

This amendment inserted Part IXA and the Twelfth Schedule in the Constitution, giving urban local bodies constitutional status and listing 18 municipal functions including planning.

MP Nagar Tatha Gram Nivesh Adhiniyam

The 1973 Madhya Pradesh town and country planning law provides for perspective plans, development plans, town and country planning schemes, planning authorities and enforcement against unauthorised development.

State List Entry 18

Entry 18 of the State List covers land, rights in land, land revenue and regulation of land use, making town planning primarily a state legislative subject.

Urban Land Ceiling Act repeal

The Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act 1976 was repealed in 1999; states adopted repeal laws, and proceedings already finalised were generally saved.

RFCTLARR Act 2013

This law replaced the 1894 Land Acquisition Act, mandating social impact assessment, consent for certain acquisitions, and compensation of up to four times market value in rural areas.

EIA Notification 2006

It categorises projects as Category A, appraised by an expert committee of MoEFCC, or Category B, appraised by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority.

Building bye-laws

Municipal regulations specifying setbacks, ground coverage, floor area ratio, height limits, parking and fire safety requirements for construction within a local body's jurisdiction.

AMRUT mission

Launched in 2015, AMRUT funds water supply, sewerage, drainage, urban transport and green space projects in 500 cities; AMRUT 2.0 adds water security and circular economy goals.

Smart Cities Mission

Launched in 2015, it funds area-based development and pan-city ICT solutions in selected cities chosen through a competitive city challenge process.

PMAY-Urban

A housing mission providing central assistance for affordable urban housing through in-situ rehabilitation, credit-linked subsidy and beneficiary-led construction components.

Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban

The urban cleanliness mission, relaunched as SBM-U 2.0 in 2021, targets garbage-free cities, legacy dumpsite remediation and safe faecal sludge management.

Municipal bond financing

Urban local bodies raise capital by issuing bonds, typically requiring a credit rating, audited accounts and a ring-fenced revenue stream such as property tax or user charges.

Census town definition

A Census 2011 census town has population above 5,000, density above 400 per square kilometre and at least 75 percent of male workers in non-agricultural activity.