The draft Delhi Master Plan-2041 (MPD-2041) is likely to be notified by April 2023, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has told the Supreme Court. Before that, the MPD-2041will be placed before Delhi Development Authority’s highest decision-making body in the first week of December 2022, the top court was informed.
“Even though the dates given are tentative, we expect these dates to be strictly adhered to as the matter cannot remain in limbo for ad infinitum period of time. We are sure that final Master Plan would be published on or before April 30, 2023,” a Bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka in its September 13, 2022, order.
Recall here that the DDA approved the master plan 2041 in April 2021 and put it in the public domain in June 2021. It was expected to come into effect by 2022-end. However, it got struck due to pending decisions on key policies.
Aims to regulate development in designated rural areas and green belts in the city, the master plan will put an end to illegal construction in the national capital’s outskirts and mushrooming of unauthorised farmhouses across the city, once it is implemented. Under the master plan 2041, amendments are expected to be made in the Delhi Development Act, 1957, to facilitate the implementation of Delhi’s land pooling policy, which was notified in 2018.