Draft master plan for Port Blair planning area 2028: Volume II
This Master Plan is aimed to develop Port Blair and its environs progressively into self sustaining community, with socio-economic development and enhancement in quality life keeping in view of its ecologically fragile environment. The main objectives of the plan are: Regulating new physical entities and activities in an orderly manner; Promoting a self reliant and inclusive development; Achieving balanced economic progress through optimal use of resources; and Encouraging orderly spatial development in tune with the ecological foot print and carrying capacity of the islands.