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Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah recently led a high-level review of the Delhi Master Plan 2041, bringing together key officials including Delhi CM Smt Rekha Gupta and Union Housing Minister Shri Manohar Lal Khattar. The meeting focused on finalising the city's long-term development strategy, which aims to make Delhi more inclusive, green, and well-connected. Key issues discussed included slum redevelopment, regularising unauthorised colonies, managing Yamuna floodplains, and expanding public transport. The draft plan, submitted in April 2023, still awaits central notification. Once cleared, it's expected to guide structured urban growth and reshape how Delhi evolves over the next two decades.
Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah led a comprehensive review of the Delhi Master Plan 2041 this week, bringing together several top stakeholders to reassess the blueprint guiding the city's future development. Present in the meeting were Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal Khattar, Delhi Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood, senior officials from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), and representatives from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Advertisement
The review followed up on an internal meeting held at the Delhi Secretariat, during which departments under the Delhi government were instructed to evaluate the draft plan and submit specific observations. The aim was to ensure departmental alignment on critical urban matters before finalising the draft.
The Delhi Master Plan 2041, originally submitted by DDA to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in April 2023, had received preliminary approval from Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena. However, it has remained pending at the central government level and is yet to be officially notified.
Officials were directed to focus their feedback on key issues: in-situ slum redevelopment, regularisation of unauthorized colonies, environmental restoration of the Yamuna floodplains, heritage zone management, and expanding transit-oriented development. These focus areas have emerged as central to the plan's overall objective of achieving structured urban growth in the National Capital Territory.
The Delhi Master Plan 2041 has been designed not only to support economic growth and infrastructure expansion but also to make Delhi more inclusive, sustainable, and climate-resilient. If notified and implemented in its intended form, the plan could significantly reshape urban development in one of the world's most densely populated cities.
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