More housing at Najafgarh

[Arun Banerjee]

Dwarka potable water supply problem is still to be resolved. But another housing project by DDA is in the offing. 

Who will favour and who will object?

DDA set to open up outer Delhi areas for housing projects Suhas Munshi TNN  New Delhi: The Delhi Development Authority is close to clearing a plan that could open up new areas in the city for housing projects. DDA’s board of directors last week decided to take up final public suggestions on the move before it clears the proposal, probably in its next meeting.      The move, which will finally have to be cleared by the Centre and involves amending master plan 2021, is expected to boost residential real estate development in outer Delhi regions such as Kanjhawala, Najafgarh, Burari, Ghitorni and Bawana.      The plan is to allow residential units along ‘facility corridors’ earmarked in the MPD 2021 for urban extension. These corridors, part of the Transit Oriented Development of the capital, were originally meant to be commercial and recreational centres, and strictly non-residential. DDA poised to finalize MPD change  The move is said to have the backing of union urban development minister Kamal Nath. Officials from the planning department said DDA is now close to finalizing the process of amending the MPD to include residential development in these corridors. The proposal had been approved by the committees reviewing the master plan and was put up for suggestions and objections from the public.      According to senior planning officials at DDA, the proposal was likely to have been passed unopposed but then the authority decided to again review the objections and suggestions it had received. “It was decided that suggestions and objections to the proposal will be taken up before deliberation on the proposal is made in the authority’s next meeting,” said aplanning department official.      “The proposal will now be deliberated and in all likelihood passed in the board’s next meeting,” the official said.      Senior officials say 247 objections and suggestions have come to DDA so far. Among the suggestions being considered is a proposal to increase the FAR of the community centre and district centre to bring it at par with the commercial centre in developed areas with 250 FAR.      The amendment required for the plan to be implemented is in MPD 2021’s chapter 5 — Trade and Commerce — where the term ‘non-residential’ in para 5.7.1 will be changed to ‘residential’ in the definition of land usage in the facility corridor. Other land usages defined the corridors are commercial, recreational, public, semi-public, utilities, service and repair.  TAPPING RESOURCES  Transit-oriented development (TOD) | A mixed-use residential and commercial area designed to maximize access to public transport, and reduce distances between home, work and entertainment along corridors of public transport  Facility corridors | Part of Delhi’s TOD plans in Outer Delhi, also known as urban extension areas  Activities permitted at facility corridors | Commercial, recreational, public and semipublic, utilities, service and repair

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[Diwan Singh]

Arunji,

Thanks for posting it and informing all. 

Its sad that DDA is going ahead with further expansion inspite of the fact that existing residents in various colonies are yet to get access to basic amenities. The fact that a Planned colony like Dwarka is not getting adequate municipal water and has to  depend on illegally extracted water suppllied through private water tankers should be enough to understand the gravity of the situation. Can these planners explain  how they would feed the new townships? 

And its not just water- the traffic that generates due to expansion finally  converge into the centre of the city. Our roads are already out of carrying capacity. Metro is crossing its load limits during peak hours.Further, the increase in size of city brings problems of crime as the city goes out of the manageable proportions. Where do we dispose the waste generated! landfills are overflowing! The new ones too would last for some time. The river Yamuna is already turned into a sewage canal.

I suggest we should get together and convey our protest to authorities on all such expansions including the expansion of Dwarka ,Ph-II.

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[Arun Banerjee]

Diwan Ji,

I am quoting extracts from the news item as below:

"According to senior planning officials at DDA, the proposal was likely to have been passed unopposed but then the authority decided to again review the objections and suggestions it had received. “It was decided that suggestions and objections to the proposal will be taken up before deliberation on the proposal is made in the authority’s next meeting,” said aplanning department official. 
    “The proposal will now be deliberated and in all likelihood passed in the board’s next meeting,” the official said."

As per above, suggestions and objections had already been called for and unfortunately missed by us. DWK residents have many  strong points for raising objection to this new township to be established. It is also mentioned in the news report that land use has to be changed from "Non-residential" to "Residential".