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The National Capital Region (NCR) volition get 4 caller ‘Namo’ cities nether the projected ‘NCR Regional Plan 2041’, with 1 specified metropolis each to beryllium developed successful Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal said connected Tuesday.
The Minister made the announcement aft chairing the 42nd committee gathering of the NCR Planning Board, which was besides attended by Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini, and the Urban Development Ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Mr. Lal said the committee volition supply a performance-linked inducement bundle of ₹5,000 crore, including grants, loans and guarantees, to enactment the improvement of these cities. The Namo cities volition beryllium developed arsenic mixed-use, transit-oriented improvement projects astir existing and projected Namo Bharat Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) stations, and volition beryllium identified done a competitory process among the NCR States, said Mr. Lal. Each State tin suggest 3 sub-cities from which the last 4 volition beryllium selected. “These 4 cities volition beryllium developed on the RRTS corridors to accommodate the increasing colonisation of the region,” Mr. Lal said.
Anti-pollution steps
He besides said that the NCR would beryllium divided into 3 zones nether the projected plan, with the innermost zone, including Delhi and the adjoining ‘Central NCR’, facing the astir terrible pollution-related restrictions portion faraway districts would beryllium exempt.
‘Counter-magnet areas’
The committee has besides identified 9 ‘counter-magnet areas’ — Hisar, Ambala, Kota, Jaipur, Patiala-Rajpura, Kanpur-Lucknow, Bareilly, Gwalior and Dehradun — to beforehand improvement extracurricular the halfway NCR and trim migration towards the nationalist capital.
The program was archetypal placed successful the nationalist domain successful 2021 and received much than 4,500 comments pursuing a nationalist announcement issued successful December that year. The updated draught was shared with the 4 constituent States successful January this year, and their responses person since been incorporated. “There were a batch of bureaucratic and governmental hurdles, and we were besides reviewing the suggestions to scope a statement with each NCR States during my 2 years arsenic the Urban Affairs Minister. It volition beryllium declared soon,” Mr. Lal told The Hindu.
The committee rejected Haryana’s connection to grow the existing geographical grade of the NCR to screen the districts of Karnal, Jind, Panipat, Bhiwani and Mahendragarh. Spread crossed 55,083 sq km, the NCR presently covers Delhi and 27 districts successful Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Ms. Gupta urged different NCR States to enactment towards improvement and trim unit connected the Capital. “Other NCR States indispensable besides marque superior efforts towards improvement truthful that the increasing colonisation unit connected Delhi tin beryllium reduced and determination equilibrium tin beryllium achieved,” said the Delhi CM.
She added that the gathering included discussions connected strengthening determination connectivity.
