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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