NEW DELHI: The Delhi Master Plan 2047 has strengthened the city’s land pooling framework to facilitate planned development across nearly 200 sq km of Delhi’s Urban Extension areas, with the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) planning around 600 km of new roads to support the expansion.
The strengthened framework seeks to shift development in these areas towards an infrastructure-first approach, with roads of 30 metres and above to be notified and developed by the DDA. The new urban areas are also planned with schools, healthcare facilities, parks, green spaces, commercial centres and other public amenities alongside housing.
Originally notified in 2018, the land pooling policy allows private landowners to voluntarily participate in the planned development of Delhi’s Urban Extension areas, with the DDA acting as a facilitator. Under the new master plan, the framework provides multiple development models aimed at accelerating implementation.
Apart from voluntary assembly of land by individual landowners and development through consortiums, the plan introduces Town Planning Schemes as an alternative mechanism for integrated and contiguous development. The minimum area for such a scheme has been fixed at 20 hectares. The plan also introduces inclusive zoning, allowing a mix of activities within residential plots depending on the Right of Way of roads. The provision is aimed at creating neighbourhoods where housing, economic activities and essential services are located closer together.
Another major feature is the proposed high-density mixed-use development along Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II). The land pooling area covers 105 revenue villages across six planning zones—K-I, L, N, P-II, part of P-I and J—which are divided into 138 sectors.
According to the DDA, more than 7,615 applications had been received and over 7,885 hectares of land registered or pooled till July 2026. Around 16 sectors had achieved the required 70 per cent threshold of contiguous pooled land, making them eligible for further steps towards development.The authority stated that amendments to the DDA Act, 1957, would also be initiated.