This City over the past couple of years has been experiencing rapid urbanization and industrialization as a result of its development aspirations. With some projects in its initial stages and some implemented, the city is growing rapidly.

The City Development Plan for Cochin, aims at improving urban governance and management, increasing investments to ensure employment potential and expand services including systematic and sustained urban poverty reduction.The plan visions to have an economically productive, effective and social egalitarian metropolis which will provide to all sections of the society the level of services that would attract world wide  attention as desired center for heritage tourism, IT and port based services.

The c-hed had played an important role in the preparation of the City Development Plan (CDP) for Cochin City.

An economically productive, effective and socially egalitarian metropolis which will provide to all sections of society the level of services that would attract worldwide attention as the desired center for heritage tourism, IT and Port based services.

 CITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN