Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will invite bids in the second week of August for building integrated cities with smart features at Dwarka, Narela and Rohini and the developers will be selected by October this year.
Also, the road between Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and Connaught Place will be developed to global standards by March 2020, for which final drawings will be approved by December this year. One of the four alignments proposed by the consultant will be finalised early next month.
This has been decided at a high-level meeting chaired by Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Durga Shankar Mishra. DDA Vice-Chairman UP Singh and other senior officials attended the one-and-a-half-hour review meeting.
Timelines for execution of various new projects by DDA were firmed up in the meeting.
Sources in the HUA said that the main objective of this project is to decongest the stretch from 11 Murti on Mother Teresa Road to CP, which sees heavy traffic during peak hours, through a new route.
The new link to airport should not run parallel to the existing routes. There could be multiple entry points so that people can get on to it without any hassle. "The idea is to connect maximum areas with the airport. CP is just a reference point as it is centrally located. It is not necessary that the route has to start from CP. We don't want to choke CP," said the sources.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry, for meeting the futuristic needs of the Government and providing facilities that the private sector tends to ignore and catalysing a change in Delhi at par with neighbouring cities through signature development, DDA has proposed to develop integrated cities with smart features on available vacant lands at Dwarka (200 hectares), Narela (218 hectares) and Rohini (259 hectares).
The scope of work in this regard has been so defined to enable overall integration with the city enhancing Delhi's image, liveability, quality of life, value of the existing and future assets of DDA and the residents of these proposed sub-cities.
DDA has agreed to start Yamuna bank development works over an area of 500 acres along Old Railway Bridge — ITO barrage stretch by October 2 of this year.
Works proposed to be taken up include enhancement of ecological features of the floodplains, creating a 300 meter wide Green buffer from the edge of the river, 100-150 meter Greenway along the road embankment, recreational areas along the greenways, desilting of storm water
drains, creation of wetland systems to enable flow of clean water in to the river etc. A detailed plan in this regard will be prepared by the fifteenth of next month.
Regarding refurbishment of commercial centres viz., Nehru Place, Bhikaji Cama Place and Basant lok Community Centre, after reviewing the plans proposed by DDA, Mishra asked DDA to include improvements inside the buildings of Nehru Place, Bhikaji Cama Place and Basant lok Community Centre as these centres given the poor state of infrastructure, maintenance and poor visual presentation.