So Many times City Development Plan (CDP) is made in cities with no Master plan. This isolation amount to ignoring an existing legal instrument of city planning and leads to only project oriented development. City Development Plan (CDP) is usually taken as a synonym to a Master Plan, which is a statutory document having gone through the process of `public opinions and objections’ and backing. City Development Plan (CDP) may not be even prepared by professional Planners. It fails to seek advantage of modern data sources as used in development plans and thus may contradict the statutory master plan. JNNURM gets more financials to prepare City Development Plan (CDP) than National Urban Information System (NUIS) for development plans although City Development Plan (CDP) has to be prepared for less number of cities.
