DDA budget: 18 new housing-related works; total expense Rs

DDA has proposed 33 new land development schemes and 18 new housing-related development works among other projects in its budget for financial year 2016-17 for which the total expenditure has been estimated at Rs 8,500 crore.
The Delhi Development Authority Budget for 2016-2017 along with Revised Estimates for 2015-2016 was presented before the authority today which approved several decisions.
"An amount of Rs 3753.87 crore has been earmarked for construction of houses andshops in the budget. New housing schemes likely to be undertaken in Vasant Kunj, Rohini and Dwarka etc, and ongoing schemes in areas like Kalkaji, Rohini, Jahangir Puri, Dwarka, Bakkarwala, Vasant Kunj, Narela etc, which are in progress, will also be taken up," a senior DDA official said.

"Shopping centres at Yamuna Vihar, Geeta Colony, Rajouri Garden, Paschim Vihar, Dwarka which are in progress, and they would be developed further," the official said.
The authority also approved a proposal for building eight new community halls in areas including, Pitampura, Rohini, Narela, Madanpur Khadar, Badarpur and Jasola.
Among other plans lined up by DDA are "infrastructure development at four places in Rohini, UER-II connecting canal to Railway Line to Mundka NH-10, UER-I and G.T. Karnal Road to Western Yamuna Canal".

Integrated freight complexes have also been proposed at Gazipur and Narela.
"Several housing scheme-related works are going on at present including at Dwarka, Jasola, Rohini, Vasant Kunj, Narela, Jahangir Puri, Kondli, Kalkaji... A new thrust has been given to Aravalli Biodiversity park, Yamuna Biodiversity park, biodiversity parks at Tilpath Valley, Jharoda Majra and Wazirabad Phase-II in the budget," she said.

"The estimated expenditure of Rs 8,500 crore in 2016-17 is expected to be met from mainly Rs 2,700 crore from disposal of houses, Rs 2,500 crore from disposal of land and Rs 3,300 crore from miscellaneous incomes," DDA said.
A sum of Rs 880 crore in revised estimate of 2015-16 and Rs 910 crore in budget estimate of 2016-17 has been allocated for expansion of greens.
DDA has also earmarked grants to DMRC amounting to Rs 313.50 crore and 13.50 crore for the respective periods.