Delhi Smart City in the Making

News Published in "The Financial Express" Wednesday | Sep 16 | 2015 A Smart City is a city equipped with basic infrastructure to give a decent quality of life, a clean and sustainable environment through application of some smart solutions. In the approach to the Smart Cities Mission, On June 25, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi unveiled the ambitious Rs. 48,000-crore Smart City project. The Smart Cities Mission of the Government is a bold, new initiative. By: Business Wire India | September 14, 2015 1:58 PM A Smart...

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Smart City Project to Come Up Before Cabinet on April 22, 2015

The ambitious “Smart City” project of the NDA government is likely to be brought for Cabinet’s approval on April 22, sources said. The project, which is close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s heart, got a go-ahead from the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) last week.To begin with, the “Smart City” project would include 20 cities and the number would subsequently go up to 100.Every city has been earmarked Rs 100 crore each for the project. The...

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DDA To Make Farmers Aware of Land Pooling Policy

With a man­date to under­take urb­an­iza­tion through its land pool­ing policy, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will be coordinating with vari­ous agen­cies to impart train­ing and spread aware­ness among farm­ers whose land may fall under the land pool­ing policy in Delhi. The policy is set to be noti­fied by the Central gov­ern­ment soon.According to the 2021 Delhi Master Plan, the DDA has been man­dated to under­take urb­an­iza­tion of...

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Delhi’s Smart City - Spain Spells Out Technical Terms

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to set up 100 ‘smart cities’, beginning with the national capital, Spain has presented a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to spell out the technical support it will offer to the Ministry of Urban Development for construction of the world-class project.Reportedly, Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu had held a meeting with officials of the ‘Barcelona Regional’ five months ago after a brief visit to Spain to seek “technical expertise” to construct the smart city, which will be spread...

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Land-Pooling Policy of MPD 2021: Vision for Smart Delhi - Report By NIIF

Conference on Land Pooling titled "Land-Pooling Policy of MPD 2021: Vision for Smart Delhi" was held on 13 December, 215 at Le Meridian by New India Initiative Foundation (NIIF) supported by Delhi Development Authority (DDA). The confrence discussed about Hon'ble PM Sh. Narendra Modi's vision of setting up 100 smart cities as well as renewal of 500 existing cities including Delhi.Various questions, that were addressed in the conference were: Is...

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DDA L Zone - FAQs

DDA L zone, Delhi, has become a hot area in the last couple of months of 2015. Say it end user or the real estate investor, both are looking forward for making a long term investment in Delhi L Zone. However, a lot of questions are still there which are rushing through minds of people, for e.g. What is location of DDA L zone,  what is land pooling policy and whether it is worth investment?Let's see what experts say about it. What is L zone...

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DDA L Zone - All About It

DDA L Zone has emerged as new sought after real estate destination in Delhi NCR in last few days. Both real estate investors as well as end users are eying on DDA’s L Zone, Delhi to invest or have their dream home. In all this hustle-bustle, a lot of questions must be there like : What is DDA L Zone and Where is it? Land Pooling Policy !! What is it ? Should one put his/her money in it ? Lets know all about it:What is L zone and were is it?"L...

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DDA Land Pooling Policy Got Approvals on Regulations to Operationalize

The regulations for operationalisation of land pooling policy which envisages public private partnership in land assembly and its development has been approved by the DDA, the urban body today said.This policy will enable urban development in a speedy way where the role of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will be that of a facilitator, the housing authority said.The details of the policy can be viewed on DDA's official website.The Master Plan...

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Smart City of India - Delhi to be the First

Delhi will get the country’s first “smart city,” a truly global city, hav­ing all the latest and mod­ern amen­it­ies, and facil­it­ies that any other global city like London or San Francisco has. It will have world-class enter­tain­ment ven­ues like Disneyland or Universal Studios here. Delhi would be the first smart city under Narendra Modi-led government’s plans to set up 100 such cit­ies across the country. The announce­ment came dur­ing an...

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Smart City Delhi Pilot Plan - Starting from Three Locations

Three areas in Delhi would be taken up as models for developing the capital as a smart city. Government sources said Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has suggested a Lake City in Mayur Vihar-II, development of a land patch in Karkardooma in eastern part of the city and a greenfield project in outer Delhi.The DDA has suggested the areas at a meeting that was attended by a delegation from Spanish government led by minister of trade Jaime Gracia-Legaz...

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Delhi Master Plan 2021 - DDA Approves Environment and Transport Chapters

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Monday approved the 'Environment and Transport' chapters of Master Plan for Delhi 2021 which includes transit-oriented development that seeks reduction in road congestion through less dependence on private vehicles and more on improved public transport system.The revised Environment chapter envisages creation of a sustainable physical and social environment for improving quality of life as major objectives...

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Smart City - Delhi On Way to be Smart City, Spain to Partner

Capital City - Delhi is on its way to be a smart city. A nine mem­ber del­eg­a­tion from Spain, led by Spanish Minister of State for Trade Jaime Garcia-Legaz Ponce had a detailed meet­ing with the Indian author­it­ies, dur­ing the week gone by, to dis­cuss the cre­ation of Delhi into a ‘Smart city’ with the help & assist­ance of experts from Spain. The Indian min­is­ter for Urban devel­op­ment Mr. M Venkaiah Naidu later con­firmed that they...

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Mr. Balvinder Kumar, VC, DDA Speaks in Land Pooling Policy Conference

Mr. Balvinder Kumar, IAS, Vice Chairman, Delhi Development Authority (DDA),Guest of Honour, sharing his vision about the Land Pooling Policy of DDA in Conference organized by New India Initiative Foundation, on December 13, 2014 at Le Meridian New Delhi. CLICK HERE TO PLAY VIDE...

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Delhi Land Distribution For Master Plan

The master plan of Delhi includes chapters like regional and sub-regional frame, population and employment , Delhi urban area 2021, social and physical infrastructure , mixed land-use regulations, development code and plan review and monitoring. The master plan 2021 has allocated 277 sq km for future urbanization by 2021. In the last fifty years, DDA has acquired 75,609.84 hectares and developed it for residential, recreational, commercial and...

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