Development authorities in UP short of land for housing projects

Q: The situation is not good enough in bigger cities like Lucknow and Agra where the land bank has reduced to 35 and 80 hectares, respectively.

Yogendra, Noida

31st March 2016

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Records also showing that many development authorities were given a target varying between 250 to 5 hectares of land abd except for Ghaziabad which acquired 7.78 hectares Allahabad - 0.06 hectares, Faizabad -1.45 hectares, Hapur-Pilkhua - 0.66 hectares and Orai - 1.37 hectares none of the other DAs could get a dot of land.

Ayesha, Delhi-NCR

31st March 2016

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True Ayesha.
Even UPHDB, which was given a target of 450 hectares, could get only 56.26 hectares land to meet housing needs of people in country's most populous state. The most disturbing news is that 12 Development Authority's have run out of the land bank completely.

sonyarai,

31st March 2016

Here are the list of Development Authorities which have been left with Zero land bank include cities like Gorakhpur, Bulandshahr, Firozabad, Jhansi, Muzzaffarnagar, Unnao, Khurja, Azamgarh, Baghpat, Kushinagar, Shaktinagar, Chitrakoot, Kapilvastu and Mirzapur. In fact, cities like Allahabad, Meerut, Aligarh, Rae Bareli, Faizabad are having their land bank shrunk to anything between 2 to 6 hectares, which is the size of a football ground.

Ayesha, Delhi-NCR

31st March 2016

Even the situation not good enough in bigger cities like Kanpur and Ghaziabad, however, score better with around 1321 and 358 hectares of land. The UPHDB has close to 1880 hectares of land in its kitty. Housing principal secretary Sadakant suggest for focus of development authorities and housing board was essentially to promote the private sectors to fulfil the housing needs.

Praneetha, Delhi-NCR

31st March 2016

Yes, and for those who are waiting for UP Government to announce an affordable housing scheme, it will be a shocker news for them. 26 out of the 32 development authorities including those in Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra and Varanasi could not acquire a single inch of land to fulfill housing needs of people during financial year2015-16 ending.

sonyarai,

31st March 2016

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Hi Sonya,
UP housing and urban planning department records how that as against a target of 2000 hectares for 2015-16, the DAs and the UPHDB were able to acquire 67 hectares, which is only 3% of the target achieved.

Praneetha, Delhi-NCR

31st March 2016