New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will hold over 20 stakeholder meetings under the directions of LG TS Sandhu over the next three months to discuss the implementation of Master Plan for Delhi (MPD) 2047.The meetings will bring together elected representatives, govt agencies, professional and industry bodies, residents, landowners and other stakeholders to improve coordination and participation in implementing the plan.DDA will engage MPs and MLAs on key provisions, including transit-oriented development (TOD), high-density corridors (HDCs), land pooling and low-density areas (LDAs). Separate meetings will be held with govt agencies and service providers.Industry bodies, such as CII, FICCI, PHD Chamber, ASSOCHAM and DSIIDC, will be consulted on industrial development and land availability. Architects, planners and professional institutions will discuss TOD, HDC and land pooling.DDA will also engage RWAs, housing societies, farmers and landowners covering Yamuna rejuvenation, blue-green networks, heritage conservation, mixed-use development, slum redevelopment, mobility, and education sector.The authority clarified that suitable amendments to Delhi Development Act, 1957, will soon be initiated to facilitate speedy implementation of land pooling policy. A key provision in the policy is high-density mixed-use development along Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II) in land pooling areas, with an integrated mix of activities.The land pooling area covers 105 revenue villages across six planning zones — K-I, L, N, P-II, part of P-I and J — divided into 138 sectors. So far, one land pooling plan has been sanctioned and 15 have matured. “Till July 2026, more than 7,615 applications were received and over 7,885 hectares of land registered or pooled,” officials said.However, residents have urged authorities to notify regulations under various MPD 2047 policies on a priority basis. Bhupinder Bazad, president of Master Plan Committee of Delhi Dehat Vikas Manch, said people had been informed that the regulations could take around six months to come into force and would define the terms, conditions and charges for applicants.“Six months is a long time. In this period, unauthorised construction will boom,” he said, pointing out that the land pooling policy was first introduced in 2007 and notified in 2013. It was later scrapped and re-notified in 2018, with regulations introduced subsequently.“Even after years of delay, not a single project has received a licence. The same is the case with Green Development Area Policy. We expect the authorities to act quickly,” Bazad said.Residents also raised concerns over the LDA policy, saying DDA had increased the minimum plot size for farmhouses from one acre, as proposed in the draft MPD, to 2.5 acres and that 90% of villages among the 70 covered under the policy have plots smaller than two acres.
