About 86 villages needed to build a satellite city near Noida

NOIDA: A satellite city on Noida’s outskirts has to be developed over 86 villages instead of the 80 already notified by the state government. However, five of the 80 villages could have to be denotified as they are not homogeneously connected to the land that will have to be developed and 11 more will have to be notified. These are the preliminary findings of a survey carried out by the School of lanning and Architecture (SPA).

The UP government, in January this year, notified these 80 villages of which 20 are in Dadri and the remaining in the neighbouring Bulandshahr district. The Authority awarded the work of preparing the master plan of the satellite township to SPA in July and the survey of the land was ordered. Officials from the Authority’s planning division said the first step in the process was to superimpose the illage map over the revenue map to find out the actual information of the site and comparing it with the reference data) recently and came back with its findings.

The planning team which worked on the project found out that five villages that had been notified by the government were cut-off from the rest and it seemed difficult to include them in the overall planning of the new town. “The land is not homogeneous in nature and the continuity breaks. It will be difficult to amalgamate them during the planning,” an official said. The Authority asked SPA to prepare a detailed report on the matter so that it could be forwarded to the state government for further action.

So, while five villages are likely to be denotified, the other 11 will be notified as part of the Noida Authority for further development. Sharing the reason behind the move, an Authority official revealed that NH-91 (NH 34 as per new nomenclature) and the Eastern Peripheral Expressway are coming in between and dissecting the five villages away from the homogeneous cluster. The Authority has been given the responsibility of developing the greenfield satellite industrial township over 20,900 hectares of land.