Dialogue on Delhi Land pooling – Opportunities and Challenges
Dialogue on Delhi Land Pooling - Opportunities and Challenges
Rapid urbanization is asserting pressure on the peripheries of our metropolitan cities fueling the need for serviced land to provide for the infrastructure, housing, and city amenity. Ownership of land has been a sensitive issue and have spurred explosive emotions from various stakeholders. In past, we have witnessed violent protests from landowners in Sigur and Greater Noida west against land acquisition. Land pooling and land reconstitution provide an effective mechanism for land assembly with sharing of value enhancement with the landowners.
Maharashtra and Gujrat have successfully used land pooling through town planning schemes (TPS) for city expansion. In 2014, The Delhi Land Pooling Policy was adopted as an alternative to land acquisition, in anticipation to release the urban land and address the challenges of the land markets in Delhi through private sector participation.
