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Delhi to Witness High Growth by 2021
Delhities have high hopes with Delhi Master Plan 2021 which envisages turning the city of Mughals into maximum city. With a complete new and vibrating look, Delhi will be moving up its infrastructure elevator by taking up the development of multi level car parking, underground and metro railways, skyways, special bus corridors, and strict zoning for residential and commercial areas.
However, B. Lal Joshi, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi was perhaps unaware of the DDA’s (Delhi Development Authority) monopoly hold over the building permit and licensing system will be broken.
Fulfilling the need of 2.4 million residential units by 2021 does not seem to be an easy task for the DDA, says Lalit Maken, Union Minister of State for Urban Development.
Delhi is likely to grow from the present 1,483 sq km to 2,300 sq km by 2021 under the Delhi Master Plan.
Following are the other cities to witness expansion as per their respective master plans:
| Cities |
Present Area (in sq km)
|
Expected Area Expansion (in sq km)
|
Earmarked Year
|
| Bangalore |
226
|
696.17
|
By 2015
|
| Gurgaon |
98.81
|
370.69
|
By 2021
|
| Greater Noida |
50
|
120
|
By 2020
|
| Kochi |
264
|
731
|
By 2026
|
| Hyderabad |
1,864
|
2,000
|
By 2020
|
| Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region |
1721
|
3,000
|
By 2021
|
However, all the metros are undergoing the same situation – they all are eating in to neighboring States and Districts to cater to their surging residential requirements. This has disturbed the administrative, revenue, law & order, crime and traffic management. The population of the Capital has transgressed to several States including Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, engulfing towns as far as 20-60 km away into the new city plans.
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