DDA simplifies land pooling system, to act as 'facilitator, regulator, planner'

NEW DELHI: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has simplified the land pooling system in the Capital and will now to act as the "facilitator, regulator and planner", the agency said in a statement.

"Land pooling policy in Delhi, for the purpose of speedy and easy execution, was revisited and reviewed by DDA," the DDA statement on Thursday noted.

Revision of the Zonal Development Plans will be undertaken for effective implementation of the Policy and delineation of sector boundaries, it added.

"Minimum 70 per cent contiguous land pooled within a sector will be eligible for processing under the Policy. The differential land return has been replaced with a uniform division of land to respective landowners on 60:40 basis," observed the statement.

The statement added that 60 per cent of the pooled land, and the remaining 40 per cent on behalf of DDA, will be surrendered as and when required to the agencies for development.

"60 per cent land shall be utilised by the developer entity for development of residential, commercial, public and semi-public facilities as per the policy," the Authority observed.

The policy also covers urbanisable areas of urban extensions, wherein 95 villages have already been included in the development area of DDA.

"In order to promote affordable and inclusive housing, 15 per cent over and above permissible FAR (floor area ratio) has also been allowed for EWS/affordable housing," noted the statement.

The Authority noted that the draft policy is proposed as an instrument to integrate land parcels, neither covered under Land Pooling nor acquired by DDA (for planning and development process), for the overall development of Delhi through spatial planning and facilitation of basic infrastructure and services.

The draft regulations would be placed in the public domain for inviting objections or suggestions from the public and, thereafter, the regulations would be finalised incorporating the same.