Imagine living in an area with very few car parking lots, where you can bicycle to work in two minutes and walk to the station close by to take the metro to attend a client meeting.
This may be a reality in the next five years once the transit-oriented corridor project called the East Delhi hub, awarded to National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) by Delhi Development Authority recently, is completed with its marquee 100-storey building and zero surface parking.
The Master Plan of Delhi 2021 has a chapter on transit oriented development (TOD) that has proposed a few corridors around Delhi as part of the first phase. These include corridors on the Chattarpur to Arjangarh Metro stations, Peeragarhi to Teekri Kalan Metro stations, Dwarka Mor to Dwarka Sector 21 Metro stations and Nehru Place to Badarpur stations.
With the Lt Governor Najeeb Jung approving the transit-oriented policy of DDA in February this year, the first TODs to be constructed, however, will be the Karkardooma TOD to be executed by the NBCC followed by one in Sanjay Lake – both in east Delhi.
Balvinder Kumar, DDA vice chairman says, “The TOD policy has been approved by the Delhi’s LG Najeeb Jung and it will be notified by the urban development ministry perhaps in a month. NBCC will take up both the Karkardooma TOD and the Sanjay Lake TOD project which is also a green field development spread across 25 acres. All the TOD projects are part of the redevelopment scheme.”
“The project in Karkardooma involves development of 75 acre of land in east Delhi. It will follow the TOD norms and get FAR of 400. It is strategically located between two Metro lines. It will consist of residential units and space for commercial offices,” he says.
“DDA awarded the land to us for joint development of the project a few weeks back. The East Delhi Hub project will be based on the transit-oriented development norms and smart city principles. The total cost of the project is Rs 4,500 crore,” says AK Mittal, chairman and managing director, NBCC.
The project will be a green complex. It will follow the zero discharge principle. All sewage generated within the project will be treated/recycled in-house. There will be no surface parking. “We will ensure that there is minimum vehicular movement,” he says.
The highlight of the project is a signature tower that will have 100 storeys. Other towers within the complex will have 10-30 storeys. We will try and engage the best architects, even from overseas through an open competition, says Mittal.
Source - HIndustan Times
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