City planner Shirish Patel, 92, who designed India’s first flyover at Kemp’s Nook in Mumbai, died on Friday. He had most cancers.
Patel was among the many first to conceive the concept of constructing the mannequin metropolis of Navi Mumbai to scale back the load on Mumbai, and performed an important position in designing the mission and supervising the state authorities all through its building within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies.
He was obsessed with conserving Mumbai’s heritage and upgrading town’s infrastructure, moreover being instrumental within the building of Koyna Dam, one of many largest dams in Maharashtra.
Calling Shirish Patel’s dying an irreparable loss, famous conservation architect Pankaj Joshi instructed The Indian Categorical that he first met Patel once they had been a part of the civic heritage committee.
“He labored tirelessly in direction of a number of points affecting Mumbai’s heritage and infrastructure. We knew one another for greater than 20 years and his ardour in direction of offering an equitable housing mannequin was unparalleled. He additionally highlighted the significance of open areas and setting sustainability and thought of these elements to be non-negotiable when it got here to Mumbai’s infrastructure growth,” Joshi mentioned.
All through his life, Patel advocated the reason for equitable city growth in Mumbai. He opposed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company’s (BMC) plan to demolish and rebuild the Malabar Hill water reservoir. Final 12 months, the civic authorities known as off the transfer following a large public outcry.
Shirish Patel was born in 1932 and spent his childhood in Karachi. He relocated to Mumbai after his father Bhailal Patel turned the primary Indian municipal commissioner of town. Patel studied at Cambridge College and served as a chief planner with the Metropolis and Industrial Improvement Company (CIDCO).
Patel was a part of the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) and was a founding member of the Housing Improvement and Finance Company (HDFC). He additionally helped within the formation of the Indian Institute of Human Settlements.
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