New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu chaired a gathering of the Advisory Council of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to evaluate the capital’s long-term technique for sustainable city growth, with discussions specializing in inexpensive housing, site visitors congestion, water safety, redevelopment, and environmental sustainability.
According to the discharge revealed on Friday, the assembly was attended by members of the Advisory Council, together with MPs Ramvir Singh Bidhuri and Sudhanshu Trivedi. Heads of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), Delhi Jal Board (DJB), the Power Department, Health Department of the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), a consultant from the Ministry of Labour and Employment, and senior DDA officers have been additionally current.
The Council reviewed key city challenges confronting the nationwide capital, together with the hole between demand and provide of inexpensive housing, the proliferation of slums and Jhuggi Jhopri clusters and their rehabilitation, regularisation and redevelopment of unauthorised colonies, site visitors congestion and air pollution, growth and regulation of Zone-O, city flooding, city warmth islands, redevelopment of present areas, deliberate growth in land pooling and low-density zones, deterioration of heritage buildings, and water shortage.
Outlining the best way ahead, the Lieutenant Governor proposed a roadmap centred on 4 pillars to construct a sustainable, inexperienced, and habitable capital.
On environmental sustainability, the main focus can be on attaining the best per capita inexperienced cowl, vibrant riverfront growth, and an interconnected green-and-blue infrastructure community. To guarantee good-quality residing, the emphasis can be on catastrophe resilience, water safety, and safer roads for all.
The launch additional said that on strengthening Delhi’s financial and cultural identification, the plan envisages reviving enterprise and commerce by way of the event and redevelopment of economic markets and centres, creation of logistics hubs, and leveraging heritage as an financial and cultural asset.
To construct a really inclusive metropolis, the LG burdened the necessity for complete mobility by way of a congestion-free metropolis, multi-modal integration, and last-mile connectivity from Metro stations.
The Council was additionally briefed on proposed growth throughout varied zones of the town, together with 207 sq. km beneath Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), 200 sq. km beneath Land Pooling Areas, 700 sq. km of developed residential areas, 150 sq. km of low-density areas, 100 sq. km of riverfront growth in Zone-O, redevelopment of 24 sq. km of the Old City, 31 sq. km of the Bungalow Zone, and a 20 sq. km High Density Corridor.
Summing up the deliberations, the LG asserted that ‘Delhi’s development should be inclusive, sustainable, and future-ready,’ stating that these rigorously charted prescriptions would function the roadmap for translating this imaginative and prescient into an on-ground actuality throughout the Capital. (ANI)