Delhi being the country’s capital has always managed to escape the questions pertaining to inadequate infrastructure, congested road networks leading to traffic snarls, residential land being used for commercial purpose etc etc. But now with water raising above the danger mark it has become impossible to turn ones back on public. Those who once were reluctant in giving answers to simple questions are left with no option but to prove their worth to nation.
One such effort is being done in the name of “2021 Mater Plan”. The plan is laid out in a way to accommodate the ever increasing Delhi’s population which is expected to rise to 2.25crore by 2021. The Master Plan has four focus areas namely commercial, residential, unauthorized colonies and farmhouses that are the greener pastures of Delhi. Following is the glimpse of how these four focus areas will be worked upon:
a) Commercial Infrastructure in Delhi: This plan has all the intentions to facilitate commercial activities as the plan allows it to be undertaken near the residential area and avoid the killing traveling part. Plan gives permit to all the streets that fall in the urbanized part and notified by appropriate authorities to be used for commercial purposes. Also, the residential areas those were tagged as commercial areas in the Master Plan of 1962 can be utilized as and for commercial purposes.
b) Residential Infrastructure in Delhi: This Master Plan has been designed keeping in mind the residents in particular. The plan offers various features that are of high benefits to all the Delhites. Residents under this plan will be permitted to have ground + 3 floors instead of ground + 2 floors as per the previous laws. People can also use their spare land (minimum 3000 sq mt) and by combing land pieces together, and appointing a builder to make constructions can derive profits out of it. This master plan also has 22 hectares of land kept aside for residential purpose where only group housing and construction of apartments will be permitted, hence solving the residential problems of people to a great extent.
c) Regulating the unregulated: In Delhi roughly 5000 hectares of land falls in the unregulated and unauthorized sector. The plan aims to work upon the unregulated land and authorize all the existing unauthorized colonies here in Delhi.
d) Farmhouses in Delhi: Last but certainly not the least is the fourth focus area of this Master Plan. Owing farmhouses or greener pastures in Delhi is a common trend and now no more a thing to be flaunted by the rich. With this type of land being idle most of the time, the master plan provides a way to reap huge profits out of such land as they permit development of Group Housing on such land.
With the Master Plan being highly active in country’s capital one can hope the congestion problem of India’s capital being evaporated by 2021.
