NEW DELHI: To develop Narela sub-city as an education hub, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has allotted 181 acres of land to seven government universities and institutions to set up their campuses.
The office of lieutenant governor VK Saxena said DDA had separately allotted 1,082 flats to these universities to provide staff accommodation and hostels. An official mentioned that DDA would receive around Rs 1,300 crore for the land and additional revenue for the flats.
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Spread over 98.7 square kilometre, Narela, once developed, would be the largest sub-city in the capital. In recent meetings with DDA and other stakeholder departments, the LG had emphasised giving a significant push to projects in the sub-city and developing it on the lines of Dwarka by improving connectivity and civic infrastructure.
In just over one year, DDA has managed to sell about 8,000 flats from its unsold inventory in the sub-city. “In a meeting with officials in October last year, the LG directed that, apart from the ongoing developments, DDA should strive to develop Narela sub-city into an educational hub. The LG believed that, besides providing land to universities to set up new campuses in the city, the move would also boost infrastructural development in the area,” said an official.
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Following a series of meetings thereafter, DDA, in record time, issued land allotment letters to the universities. While Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University has received 16.7 acres, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University has been allotted 22.4 acres, Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University 10 acres, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology 20 acres, Delhi Technological University 47.5 acres, Delhi Teachers University 12.7 acres, and Indira Gandhi Delhi Technology University for Women 50 acres, said an official.
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He added that the LG had issued specific instructions to the authority to allot the land parcels to educational institutions in a cluster closer to the DDA housing inventory to ensure that ready-made residential and hostel facilities are available in close proximity.
