Strategic and Statutory Urban Planning in Delhi

Management
Masters of Urban and Regional Planning

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Strategic and statutory urban planning model/style followed in Delhi.......................................................2
Strategies and policies followed with respect to land acquisition, zoning, housing polices and housing
delivery........................................................................................................................................................3
Planning...................................................................................................................................................3
Disposal of housing..................................................................................................................................4
Implementation of plans and its success and failure on housing and infrastructure..................................6
Informal settlements coexist with planned development and planning strategies, land policies dealing
with informal housing..................................................................................................................................7
Improvement of the quality and live ability of informal..............................................................................7
Informal housing persists in developing countries......................................................................................8
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Urban planning is defined as a technical and a political process which is highly concerned with
the improvement and design of the land usage and the in-built environment which may include
air, water supply, infrastructure development in both inside and outside urban areas.
Infrastructure development includes transportation, communication and network distribution.
Urban planning also aims at dealing with the physical layout and design of human being
settlements. According to Ahluwalia in 2011, one of the major concern is related to the public
welfare. Public welfare includes sanitation, hygiene, proper use of environment and the major
impact on all the activities related to social and economic concerns (Ahluwalia, 2011). Urban
planning is also known as an interdisciplinary area which consists of social, engineering and
design sciences. There are few urban planners who aims at planning streets, parks and building
in a particular location. Urban planning also includes city planning, town planning, rural
planning and few other areas throughout the world.
In addition to this, Batra in 2009 stated that urban planning controls the improvement in
suburban and rural areas as well. It is equally responsible for improving other resources such as
water, agricultural land and focuses on preserving the natural environment. Some experts who
are highly involved in urban planning are highly concerned with research and findings, critical
analysis, strategic planning and thinking process, policy suggestions and implementation (Batra,
2009).
Strategic and statutory urban planning model/style
followed in Delhi
According to research done by Beltrão in the year 2013, it was concluded that India is the
country with the second largest population throughout the world it was nearly 1027 million in
2001 which contributed to 17% of the total world population. Growth of People in urban
locations is faster than the other areas. In 1981, the population of Delhi including urban and
rural areas was 6.2 million which raised to 13.8 million in 2001. Thus, it can be noted that the

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population in Delhi is increasing in a massive way. By 2021, the total population is estimated to
be 27 million. Delhi is not a city for administrative purpose but it is also used for education,
business and health care services (Beltrão, 2013).
The city basically follows strategy planning process. As it is known that Delhi has both national
as well as international significance, so the central government must formulate and improve
the entire planning process which include locations of national significance. The work done by
DDA must be limited to planning policy and enhancement guidelines only. The remaining areas
should be taken care by the state government. Delhi should be classified into four major zones
and every zones must have office at zonal level which will be separately responsible for every
planning and approval of nay major plans. At this current time, DDA has nearly 23,000
employees and due to improper staff accountability, it cannot function well. At the city level,
the roles and responsibility must be equally distributed to every level and zonal offices must be
coordinated by one office who will be equally responsible to look after all the policies and terms
(Drakakis-Smith, 2012).
Strategies and policies followed with respect to land
acquisition, zoning, housing polices and housing delivery
There are various strategies and policies followed in Delhi in context to land acquisition, zoning,
housing polices and housing delivery.
According to study conducted in 2003, Sivam noted that there are majorly two types of housing
delivery systems i.e. formal housing and informal housing. Formal housing delivery system is
majorly used in Urban cities like Delhi. Under this category, it includes basic housing supply
mechanism of Delhi. The entire system was classified into several stages such as planning,
assembling, implementation and lastly the final disposal of the completed house. The allowed
many sub components of the issues that must be examined on a personal basis despite of
trying to analyze the whole system (Sivam, 2003).
Planning: Planning include two basic parts i.e. preparation and approval. Every planning is
done by DDA i.e. Delhi Development Authority on the place of central government. MUD i.e.