Chandigarh, May 24 -- The Chandigarh administration has moved ahead with a sweeping rewrite of its Master Plan-2031, pushing for high-rise, high-density development that would allow more people to live within the same land, even as critical questions about infrastructure capacity remain unanswered.

Hindustan Times spoke to architects who have been closely associated with planning and shaping Chandigarh, many of whom flagged that the UT has not done its homework on infrastructure capacity before bringing forth this plan.

The draft amendments, cleared for public consultation by UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria, mark a shift from the city's long-standing low-rise, plotted development model toward group housing and high-rise expansion, ...