Review of Guruvayur Masterplan 2039 (Draft)
Review of Guruvayur Masterplan 2039 (Draft)
Review of Guruvayur Masterplan 2039 (Draft)
GROUP - 4
GOPIKA SURESH, JEEVA JOSEPH, MEGHA RAJ
PILGRIM DESTINATION
GURUVAYUR TOWNSHIP IN 1962
- shows an urban character towards the core area and the peripheral area shows semi-urban character.
MASTER PLAN OF GURUVAYUR 2039 - Land use planning with a long term vision and comprehensive
regional outlook - to strengthen the economic base of the town and to raise to a national pilgrimage destination
ATAL MISSION FOR REJUVENATION & URBAN TRANSFORMATION
AMRUT MISSION mandates a set of 11 reforms which are to be implemented by the States during
the +Mission period.The Prime Minister of India launched AMRUT on 25th June 2015
MAJOR OBJECTIVES:
(i) To develop common digital geo-referenced base maps and land use maps using Geographical
Information System (GIS)
(ii) Master Plan Formulation for 500 cities that are selected as AMRUT Cities.
METHODOLOGY:
- As per the guidelines for the preparation of GIS based master plan for AMRUT cities’ issued by the Government Of
India.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT :
- People's participation at relevant stages - questionnaire to list issues & identify the root cause through analysis
LOCATION :
- Municipal Status in the Year 1994
- Western side of Thrissur District - lies
between 10° 55’ to 10°64’ North latitude
and 76° 01’ to 76° 08’ East Longitude, 28
km from the Thrissur District Headquarters
- BOUNDARIES : East by Kandanassery
Grama Panchayath and Kunnamkulam
Municipality
- South by Elavally and Pavaratty Grama
Panchayats
- West by Chavakkad Municipality,
Orumanayur and Punnayur Grama
Panchayats
- North by Vadakkekad Grama Panchayat Maps showing Location and Surrounding Panchayats of Guruvayur
and Kunnamkulam Municipality
Municipality
AREA & POPULATION :
- Area of the Municipality is 29.66 sq.km as per Census 2011, which is 1.01% of the total area of the district.
- Guruvayur town comprises six revenue villages such as Guruvayur(Part), Iringapuram, Pookode, Thaikkadu, Perakom
and Chavakkad.
- As per 2011 census, the gross population of Guruvayur Municipality is 70012. It accounts to 2.24% of the total
population of the district.
- Total population of Guruvayur Municipality includes 32450 males and 37562 females.
- The decadal growth rate of population is 4.5% (2001-2011) and the average population density is 2360 persons per
sq.km.
1.Pookode
2.Thaikkad
3.Iringapuram
4.Perakam
5.Chavakkad
6.Guruvayur(part)
CLIMATE :
- The average daily maximum temperature in March-April - hottest months, is about 29° to 35° C (88° - 90° F).
- relatively high humidity (74 %)
- The ‘Edavapathi’ or ‘Kalavarsham’ alias-South West Monsoon, June to September
- ‘Thulavarsham’ alias North East Monsoon, begins in the middle of October and ends in November.
- The average annual rainfall - is 3155 mm, the average number of rainy days in a year is 119.
- Winds are generally light to moderate with acceleration during the monsoon season. In the south west monsoon season
the winds are mainly westerly or north westerly.
- During the rest of the year winds are northeasterly to easterly in the mornings, and blow from directions between
South West and North West in the afternoons.
PHYSIOGRAPHY :
1. Guruvayur
2. Thiruvenkidam
3. Thaikkad
4. Chavakkad
Guruvayur Township with 10 divisions 1962 Guruvayur Municipality with
Future Urbanization Profile of State and District 2021 (Source: State Urbanization Report, 2012)
Regional Significance :
- State Urbanisation Report (SUR), District Spatial Plan (DSP), Integrated
District Development Plan (IDDP)
- Guruvayur Urban agglomeration - 4th order hierarchy urban center, where
corridor type peri-urban development
- Future Urbanization profile - in 2021, Guruvayur cluster will be formed
- by incorporating Guruvayur, Chavakkad and Kunnamkulam Municipalities
- 2031 Guruvayur will become an urban agglomeration by incorporating the
villages such as Pookode, Perakam, Iringapuram,Thaikkad, Paluvai,
Pavaratty, Venmanad, and Brahmakulam
- the town is a part of thriving urban development corridor of the state.
- urban activity is predominant in Guruvayur Municipality, Pookode
panchayat is predominant in secondary activities and Thaikkad panchayat in
primary activities.
- Multifunctional Zone II - service center for the surrounding rural hinterland.
- Thaikkad panchayat - Marine accelerated growth zone
- Pookode panchayat - Intensive agricultural zone
FUNCTIONAL CHARACTER :
Decadal variation of population in Thrissur District Decadal variation of population in Guruvayur Municipality
POPULATION GROWTH RATE :
Decadal Variation of Population Growth Rate of Decadal Variation of Population Growth Rate of
Guruvayur Municipality (Source: Census data) Guruvayur Municipality within the Old Boundary
(Source: Census data)
POPULATION GROWTH RATE :
Male & Female literacy rates of Guruvayur Comparison of literacy rate with State, district
municipality (Source: Census data) and Guruvayur municipality
HOUSEHOLD SIZE:
Traffic Surveys
- The following surveys were
organized in Guruvayur.
- Road inventory survey
- Speed and delay survey
- Traffic volume survey
- Parking survey
- Pedestrian survey
Transportation Network of Guruvayur Municipality - Origin-Destination (OD) survey
ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS :
Sub-arterial roads:
Guruvayur-Muthuvattoor road (HS4) (from node 304 to 108), Outer Ring Road (HS5) (from node 101-104-107-108-110-113
to 101), Guruvayur-Karakkad road (HS6) (from node 110-310), Chavakkad - Kanjani road (HS9) (from node 301 to 311),
Chowallurpadi - Pavaratty road (HS10) (from node 312-313) with two-lane two-way configuration and have a capacity of
1200 PCU per hour.
Collector roads:
Perakam road & Thampuranpadi-Kottapadi road (HS3) (from node 303-315- 308 to 306), Inner Ring Road (HS8.1) (from
node 201-203-205- 208 to 201), Inner Ring adial Roads (HS8.2), Guruvayur- Shavakotta road (HS11) (from SH 49 to SH50)
and Chemannur- Guruvayur road (HS12) (from node 313 to 306). These roads also have a capacity of 900 PCU per hour.
ROADS & NODES
- Parking accumulation and duration survey - registration plate method - 4to 8 hours during peak hours
- Venugopal parking off Inner ring road has the highest peak hour parking accumulation of 494 ECS followed by
Railway station parking with 414 ECS.
- heavy parking were found to be parking area near south nada and ambady parking of Inner Ring Road.
- Parking duration - 41.90% vehicles - less than 30 minutes, 20.82% parked for 30-60 minutes & 11.83% vehicles
parked for 60-90 minutes
- The vehicles parked for greater than 2 hours were very low.
Pedestrian Survey
- pedestrian cross movements and lateral movements-four hours between 8.00 AM and 12.00 noon in the morning
and/ or between 4.00 PM and 8.00 PM in the evening
- Venugopal parking area had the pedestrian cross movements of 738 near East nada (in front of Elite hotel) has
the highest pedestrian lateral movements in the peak hour of 3,840: followed by Devaswom road and
Kausthubham restaurant road
- Manjira road has the least pedestrian movement of 186.
PEDESTRIAN SURVEY :
Zoning pattern adopted for the study in Guruvayur Municipality Desire lines – External to External
ORIGIN-DESTINATION OF PASSENGER TRIPS
• 54.89% of town
• Wards 9 -39
• 2.23% of town
• Wards – 17,18,16
• Peripheral wards
• Wards – 13,12
• 29% land
• 2.75% - paddy
• Household crop
Vegetables Tapioca
• roof top as well as ground agriculture • Lower quantities
• Higher quantities
Paddy
• lower quantities
Irrigation facilities
• Irrigation – ponds or existing chiras
Name of Thodu/Chira/Pond Ward No.
Thaikkad Brahmakkulam Pond 6
Tharakan Lasar Kulam 33
Kuttadan Padam 1
Valiyathodu 1 4,5,6,7
Valiyathodu 2 11,12,13,14
Pallichira 34,35
LakshamVeedu Colony 5
Iringapuram Nursery 5
Moonnini Pond 24
Thayyaram Pond 41
Nooram Pond 39
Watersheds
• Land containing sets of streams, all drain to single body of water
• More than drainage area
• 13 micro watersheds
Cattles 1129
Buffalo 191
Goat 1351
Pig 7
Poultry 22365
Rabbits 182
Dogs 1800
Elephants 64
Physical infrastructure
• Small acale – 4
• Wards – 1,41,18,32
Thiruvenkidom temple
• Location – thiruvenkidom desom
• PRASAD scheme – devaswom and municipal authorities provided better infrastructure facilities to tourist
• Facilities – hotels at affordable cost, transportation facilities, drinking water , sanitation , sewage syatem and
clean environment
• Includes – tourist facilitation center near bus stand and west nada
Chavakkad beach
• Location – 5km from town centre
• Visitors- 75% are who visited guruvayoor temple
Palayur church
• Established – st. Thomas in AD 52
• Highlight of thaliyakulam – baptized local people
Vallabatta kalari Kendra
• Location – chavakkad
• Kalari payattu workshop
Manathala mosque
• Location – Thrissur
• Tomb – hydroskutty mooper
• Manathala nercha
TRADE AND COMMERCE
• Economic development depends on commercial
activities
• Chowallorpady – market
Street vendors
• Unoragnised sectors
• Taps are next major source amounting to about 12.44% of supply units out of which 7.17% is treated
and 5.27% is untreated water
• Supply – KWA
• 2 proposed schemes : (a) AMRUT {atal mission for rejuvenation and urban transportation}
(b) UIDSSMT {urban infrastructure development scheme for small and medium towns}
• 2 over head tanks – 5.00 LL OH tanks at KWA office compound and savakotta and one sub tank for
guruvayoor devaswom 5.00 LL capacity
• Pipes used – CI (cast iron), GI (galvanized iron), PVC(polyvinyl chloride), AC (asbestos cement )
• Water supply – KWA lines are concentrated in guruvayoor zones , 24 wards have KWA supply
• Connections – 1649
• Guruvayoor – have more than 25 distributors, supplies 20L cans and 1L bottles
• Availability of rainwater
• Harithakarma sena - 43 people, 3HI (health inspector), 1HS (health supervisors), 5JHI (junior health
inspectors), 2 clerks, 1VEO (village extension officer)
• Provide 100biogas plants, 1100pipe compost plants, 2400 pot compost plants, and vermin compost plants
• Choolpuram ground – 10280 sqkm
• Disposal – 85.6% household dispose on their own , 37.5% to pipe compost, 28.29% to vermin compost,
3.87% to biogass plant, 8.2% to solid waste 0.45% commit open dumping, 61.47%burns their waste
• The Town has a 110 KV substation with 56 MVA capacity located at Thaikkad which serves the entire
planning area
• Distribution network consists of an 11 KV line of length 56.57Km and low tension line of length 257.082 Km
Decadal variation of
literacy rate of
Guruvayur Municipality
literacy rate of
Guruvayur Municipality
Comparison of Literacy rate with nearby has increased in the last
urban local bodies in the district (Source: two decades
Census, 2011)
SCHOOLS
Number of schools
Aided 12
Government 4
Unaided 2
All classes Aided 9
except preprimary
TOTAL 27
Percentage of schools and number of students under each category
Total number of
Government-aided schools are
more compared to government
and unaided schools. Hence,
students going to these schools
are proportionally higher.
SCHOOLS
pre-primary students are more
level up to LP in unaided schools
school level
student capacity
of government
school increased
drastically, while
in aided school it
has shown a Student to School ratio
HSS level decline. Source: Secondary data,2019
• Persons affected with diarrhoeal disease and dengue fever has increased through the years.
• presence of coliform in well and pond water. Presence of coliform and mixing of sewage with ground water may
be a reason for increase in ADD.
• Some wards in Guruvayur Municipality suffer from water scarcity and thus storage of water may lead to
mosquitoes breeding around and spread of epidemics like Dengue Fever in summer season also.
• Blocked drains and mixing of sewage to storm water which is the existing status of the town, can again lead to
communicable diseases like Dengue and leptospirosis.
PLANNING STANDARDS
• There is a gap for 1 intermediate hospital A, 1 speciality hospital and 1 multi-speciality hospital.
• Thrissur Corporation which is located at a distance of 25 Km from Guruvayur Municipality contains seven
multi-speciality hospitals to the benchmark of three.
SCHEMES ON HEALTH
NATIONAL URBAN HEALTH MISSION (NUHM) AARDRAM
• Focus on urban poor and other vulnerable • objectives of the mission include transforming
sections PHCs (Primary Health Centres) into FHCs (Family
• making available primary health care services Health Centres)
and reducing their expenses for treatment • availing the best service of the best doctors and para
• various schemes relating to drinking water, medical staff
sanitation, school education etc. implemented • reforming out-patient management procedures
by the Ministries of Urban Development, • hygienic and spacious wards, rooms, beds and
Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Human toilets
Resource Development and Women & Child • Life Saving Medicines from the hospital on
Development. moderate rates
• partnership with community and local bodies • The activities of the Mission would cover three
for a more proactive involvement in planning, major sectors in State's health care delivery
implementation, and monitoring of health system;
activities, availability of resources for ▪ Government medical college hospitals
providing essential primary health care to urban ▪ district hospitals, taluk hospitals
poor ▪ alternative systems covering Ayurveda and
• partnerships with NGOs, for profit and not for Homoeo hospitals and Primary Health
profit health service providers and other Centres (PHCs).
stakeholders.
INFERENCE
• As a community center, the immediate health care facilities are available within the
town as per the URDPFI guidelines.
• Devaswom Medical Centre caters to the needs of pilgrims visiting the town.
Existing
Recreational Facilities
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES
• Ongoing projects for developing parks and playgrounds only add up to 0.01sq. Km which is very less
compared to benchmark.
• 11 Ha of land is to be included for recreational purposes in various locations within the Municipality.
AUDITORIUMS
• concentrated more around Guruvayur
Sreekrishna Temple premises (marriages)
❑ .
• Incidents
against women
increased over
the years.
• Decrease in the
number of fatal
accidents.
• Thefts
decreased
whereas riots
increase during
2017 - 2018.
FIRE
STATION
There is a main fire station in Guruvayur with a
capacity of serving a population of 2 lakhs up to
radius of 5-7 kms .The office consists of 42
personals.
A
FUEL
STATIONS
There are 8 Fuel Stations and 1 gas station has
been located in Guruvayur Municipality
F
F
COMFORT
• STATIONS
Since Temple premises experiences a high floating
population, comfort stations form an important aspect.
• Total 152 toilets in 6 comfort station points
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
5 public libraries have been spatially
located in the Municipality
CREMATORIUMS AND BURIAL GROUNDS
7 crematoriums were located in the Municipality.
1 general gas crematorium is at Guruvayur Savakotta Jn.
3 beside Churches and 3 beside Mosque.
POST OFFICE
As per URDPFI Guidelines there should be 1 post office for every 15000 population, it is seen that number of post
offices are sufficient enough for the existing population.
INFERENCE
• As per URDPFI guidelines the civic amenities are sufficient for the town.
• There are no stadiums within the Municipality.
HOUSING
1. Existing Scenario
2. Socio-Economic survey results
3. Flat survey results
4. Colonies
5. Inference
EXISTING SCENARIO
The no. of houses has increased to 20682 (As per ground truthing survey, 2019)
EXISTING SCENARIO
• Edapully, Mammiyur, Kotta South,
Nenmini, Thaikkad and Substation wards
have large number of houses.
• destitute identification, rehabilitation • This scheme coming under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)
and monitoring programme. • Was launched in October 2018
• Initiated in 2003 • Target beneficiaries are the homeless residents.
• under Poverty Alleviation • people who lost their home due to natural calamities.
department • focuses on financially weaker sections
• through Kudumbasree
• aims at enhancing access to basic
necessities and opportunities for the
poor
• beneficiaries were supposed to avail
an amount of Rs.2lakhs each
• request for a hike
SOCIO-ECONOMIC
SURVEY RESULTS
• Conducted to analyze the existing housing
condition
Occupancy status
Spatial distribution
of flats in Guruvayur
FLAT SURVEY - RESULTS
Classification based
on no. of floors
Source: Flat Survey, 2019 Distribution of Plot area of flats
Low-rise apartments are more in number About 61.76% flats are within 11-25
compared to high rise, and are concentrated cents of land, located in the core
in the temple premises. area of the Municipality
FLAT SURVEY - RESULTS
Water Supply in Flats Source of water supply in flats Provision for Recreational Space
FLAT SURVEY - RESULTS Solid waste management
BPL HOUSEHOLD
Households are classified as above poverty
line if;
• Owned house >1000 sq. ft,
As per socio-economic survey, those below
• Land owned >1 acre,
poverty line are accounted to be 22.31% of
• Monthly income of the family > Rs 25000,
the total population of Guruvayur
• Those paying income tax
Municipality
• Those households owning a four wheeler
• Those with government job or getting
pension.
SCHEDULE CASTE AND TRIBES
83 numbers of sangethams in the municipality
• schemes should be implemented for skill development like tailoring and driving,
• subsidies are given to them to start a business for self-employment and to buy lands and constructing houses
• Spill over home loans are those type of loans passed to SC community in case if any shortage of funds to
complete construction of their house.
• Local body is taking measures to provide land on lease that can be used for farming and raw materials are given
to them at subsidized rates.
SOCIAL SECURITY, WOMEN WELFARE AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN
• Kudumbashree
• Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme (MGNREGA)
• Ayyankali Urban Employment
Guarantee scheme
• poultry farming initiatives
• two wheeler vehicles to
scheduled caste women
SOCIAL SECURITY, WOMEN WELFARE AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Social Welfare Programmes and Infrastructure
SOCIAL SECURITY, WOMEN WELFARE AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Social Welfare Programmes and Infrastructure
CHILDREN
❑ 64 anganawadis in Guruvayur
Municipality
INFERENCE
❑ More community cum day care centres for the old aged
❑ Special schools or training centres may be started with children with autism.
▪ Quality of water in Guruvayur has always been an issue in the temple city.
REASONS
✔ discharge of untreated domestic and commercial effluents in to the backwater
✔ Coliform presence has also been detected in Temple pond. This may be due to mixing of sewage with
drainage water.
▪ Enhancement of ground water needs to be done by various methods as many places are experiencing
issues due to poor quality of groundwater. Over-utilization of ground water is also causing depletion of
clean potable water resources.
SOLUTIONS
Methods of recharging groundwater are as follows:
▪ Rejuvenation of ponds and receiving water bodies
▪ Rain water collection and percolation of rainwater at household level.
ENVIRONMENT
Applicability of CRZ rules in Guruvayur
1) CRZ-I
environmentally most critical
TYPES OF HAZARDS
prone to landslides and earthquake
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
HEAT
WAVE• Affects work force , health , agriculture etc… Urban areas and cities are the places
which have higher temperatures than
• Conservation and expansion of green areas in and around cities rural places. This phenomenon is
could be an effective mitigation strategy to counter the effects of referred to as "Urban Heat Island'.
urban heat islands
EARTHQUAKE
• Whole of Kerala lies in zone III, where the expected intensity is Guruvayur Municipality has not
VIII in MM scale or 5.6 M in Richter scale. reported any major earthquake
events in the recent past.There has
• According to Kerala State Disaster Management Plan Profile, been earthquake incident close to the
2015, higher seismic activity is observed along the Kottayam Municipality as well as within
Idukki region and Thrissur Palakkad Region. Thrissur district.
Map showing
major fault lines
DISASTER MANAGEMENT and earthquake
events in Kerala
EARTHQUAKE
• Kerala’s typical topography favours frequent Cumulonimbus (Cb) cloud formation especially during the months of
April-May and October-November.
• The lightning phenomena is observed majorly during the summer showers and the NE monsoons in the state.
• The midland region of Kerala is prone to lightning Hazards.
• According to studies conducted, there has been on an average 71 deaths and 112 injuries due to lightning every
year.
• Property damage due to lighting is also very high in the state.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
LIGHTNING
• Guruvayur municipality has recorded only few • Wards 1, 2, 3, 34, 33, 42,13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 12, 23 have a
cases of fatal/injurious lighting hazard lightning frequency of one and the rest of the wards in
incidents when compared to the other regions Guruvayur municipality have a lightning frequency zero.
in the state.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
FESTIVAL HAZARD
Physical Vulnerability
● Vulnerability of buildings, Transportation and land cover in the
municipality region is thoroughly analysed
Basic services
● Social infrastructure such as Hospitals, Schools, Community Halls,
Police Station, Fire Station, Village Office, LSG office, Pumping
stations, Treatment plants, Electric sub stations, Transformers etc
that are likely to be affected in each ward is analysed
Economic vulnerability Environmental and heritage factors
Coping capacity
● Coping capacity of Guruvayur Municipality is measured by analysing the different actions that has been
taken as a part of disaster mitigation such as Updating of Local Disaster Management Plan, Constitution of
Steering Committee, Constitution of Emergency Response Team , Formulation of Evacuation Plan and
Disaster Risk Reduction activities in the region.
Flood Risk Map
• Local body level vulnerability assessment as well as disaster management action plan
has to be formulated and reviewed periodically for the effective preparedness,
management and mitigation of disasters.
• Flood hazard risk zones identified in the municipality are near the water bodies and when
considering the risk management and mitigation measures, all the risk zones should be
given priority with respect to the scale of risk identified.
• The risk of heat waves can be tackled with green city proposals and pocket forests etc.
DEVELOPMENT
ADMINISTRATION
AND FINANCE
GURUVAYUR MUNICIPALITY
• The 74th constitutional amendment provided for a national frame work for municipal governance in the
country since 1994.
• function can be divided into civic function and development function in area of agriculture, industry,
health, education, infrastructure etc.
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• To make the municipal finance more stable income from own sources and
taxes from revenue has to be increased.
• Since the area is blessed more natural resources methods has to be adopted
for tapering the income from these natural resources without causing
damages to it.