Sanskruti Welfare Society

Proposed land pooling policy of DDA

Land Pooling: A possible alternative to Eminent Domain and tool for Equitable urban redevelopment

The new proposed Land policy of DDA is based on the concept of Land Pooling

Wherein the land parcels owned by individuals or group of owners are legally consolidated and part/parcel is given back to the land owners for undertaking of development for such areas.

The policy is applicable in the proposed urbanisable areas of the Urban Extensions for which Zonal Plans have been approved.

Features of Land Pooling Policy

• The DDA portal was opened initially for land pooling in Feb 19. The response was good and almost 6000 hectares of land was pooled at that time. The DDA portal was opened twice in 2020 but response was lukewarm. In 2021, to improve participation, the DDA made a provision to allow pooling by even the land owners holding less than 5 acres land. Using this provision, our Society submitted 2.75 acres land for land pooling to DDA on 12 Dec21.
• In 2021 DDA had declared that out of 104 sectors in six land pooling Zones ( K, P-1, P-2, N, J &L), 16 sectors were likely to achieve the threshold of 70%. On 21 May22 DDA took out a public notice to state that the pooled land of Sector 10A in Zone N and Sector 2 & 3 in Zone P-2 was verified and found above the 70% threshold. Now the work to develop them as model sectors will start and DDA has asked the land holders to form a consortium and make efforts to get all the pooled land in a contiguous manner. The details of unpooled land has also been provided and the DDA land pooling portal is being opened again from 28 May 22 till 25 Aug22 to facilitate this process.
• L Zone. As of now only Sector 3 has crossed the 70% threshold in L zone and even this sector is likely to be taken up for land pooling in next few months. The pooled land of our Society is in Sector 11 and the pooling status of this sector is still below 40%. Most of the sectors in L zone are in similar state. It appears nothing much is likely to happen this year. However we can be hopeful that with operationalisation of Dwarka Expressway by 2024, our sector will become lucrative for development. It appears that our waiting period for a beneficial outcome for our pooled land needs to be extended till 2024. Infact the positive moves should start sometime in 2023. Till then, it appears we have to be patient and just hold onto our investment.
• A land owner, or a group of land owners (who have grouped together of their on volition/will for this purpose) or a developer, hereinafter referred to as the ``Developer Entity, shall be permitted to pool land for unified planning, servicing and subdivision/share of the land for development as per prescribed norms & guidelines.
• Each land owner to get an equitable return irrespective of land uses assigned to their land in the Zonal Development Plan (ZDP) with minimum displacement.
• To ensure speedy development of Master Plan Roads and other essentials/physical & social infrastructure and recreational areas.