Agency hired, New Noida master plan likely to be ready by Apr 2022

Noida: The Noida Authority has hired the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, as a consultant to prepare a master plan for New Noida that will be developed on 20,000 hectares.
The project will come up across 80 villages between Dadri and Khurja in Bulandshahr in the Delhi-Noida-Ghaziabad Investment Region (DNGIR).
While a preliminary draft of the plan is likely to be ready by October 2021, the final report is expected by April 2022, officials said.
“We have hired SPA to make the master plan for New Noida, which will be developed across 20,000 hectares. Apart from agency selection, nothing has been decided or prepared yet. The agency will take about 10 months to prepare the master plan, which may be a mixed model,” said Ritu Maheshwari, the chief executive officer, Noida Authority.
On January 29, 2021, the government had given the 80 villages to Noida Authority for development. Some of the areas were under the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority from August 29, 2017.
According to officials, the region might be developed on the lines of Dholera investment region in Gujarat, which is located along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC).
“Dholera is one of the investment regions that is being studied as a model for the New Noida plan. We hope the agency will be ready with a base map by October 2021,” said Ishtiyak Ahmed, general manager (planning), Noida Authority.
“Everything is in a preliminary stage. But the focus is on global investments and advanced infrastructure. We have not acquired any land yet,” he added.
DNGIR is one of the seven proposed investment regions for the first phase of DMIC. It is one of the key nodes of the DMIC project due to its location near the western dedicated freight corridor. DNGIR is spread over Bulandshahr and Gautam Budh Nagar and covers 85 villages.
A multi-modal logistics hub near Dadri and the multi modal transit hub at Boraki, Greater Noida, are part of the proposed project.