Master Plan of Delhi (MPD) -2021 | 2001 | 1962

Attributes

• Delhi's population to be 53 lakh by 1981.
• Planning in a regional context was introduced with ring town concepts like Narela, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Faridabad etc.
• Comprehensive planning for rural and urban areas earnmarked 45,000 ha for urbanization.
• Segregated land-use for appropriate built environment.
• Elaborate zoning and sub-divisional regulations.
• Introduced poly-nodal hierarchical development i.e. the concept of District Center, Community Center and Local Shopping Center etc.
• Main unit of planning was conceived to be neighborhood having a population of 15000 with supporting facilities.
• Performance - based industrial development like Extensive, Light and Flatted Factory etc.
• Appropriate transportation network e.g.ring road, radial pattern and rail linkages were conceived.
• This plan provided for green belt on the periphery of the proposed urban area to control the spill over of urbanization.
• Extensive organised open spaces were planned (20% - highest in India)