Directorate of Information & Publicity 
DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY
GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI
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New Delhi: 20/07/2016
Today, Shri Ramesh Negi, Chief Secretary of Govt. of NCT of Delhi, released a pioneering book on the Land Acquisition titled “Delhi Land Acquisition - Planned Urban Land Development in a Metropolitan City: A Spatial Analysis of Land Acquisition Process in Delhi (1948-1989)" along with its off-line e-book version. Prof Amitabh Kundu of JNU who has written the Foreword of this book, appreciated the quality of study and research that had gone into the book, emphasized its importance and relevance for urban planning and upcoming smart cities. Shri P P Shrivastav, former Commissioner of the then single Municipal Corporation of Delhi, said that this book could be very useful in avoiding the mistakes that had been committed in the process of large scale of land in Delhi and the planning process not keeping pace with land acquisition and its planned development. He endorsed the finding of the study that the natives of Delhi whose agricultural land was acquired should have been involved prepared for alternative avenues of livelihood.
Shri Ramesh Negi, Chief Secretary, lauded the work and encouraged the Divisional Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners and other participating Officers of Govt. of NCT of Delhi to make full use of the exhaustive data and incisive findings of the study for the benefit of the balanced urban development of Delhi.
Written by Shri Vijay Singh, formerly from IAS and an Ex-Special Secretary (UD) in the Govt. of National Capital Territory of Delhi, it is the first comprehensive and analytical study of the land acquisition process in Delhi where urbanization was undertaken by the State acquiring rural land on a large scale and converting it for urban usage. This book will prove to be an important contribution in the domain of pubic policy and its application in the framework of time and space with regard to planned development of urban settlements.
For the first time in this study, the census data pertaining to the land acquisition in Delhi from 1948 to 1989 during which period a large part of the land acquisition process had been undertaken in Delhi, were collected from the original land acquisition records and compiled and processed for analytical research. Whereas, the data-base developed in this study shall be of use to future researchers in developing more rational and equitable land acquisition models, the empirical findings, conclusions and implications of the study may be helpful to the policy makers, legislators, administrators and lawyers dealing with Land Acquisition in India. In this regard, the whole work, in an off-line e-book version in colour along with data tables in a word document format will prove to be of great convenience to the researchers and users.
Besides providing a perspective and invaluable insight into the past land acquisition process, it would enable an objective examination of the new Land Acquisition Act. That would be a big step forward in fine-tuning and streamlining of the policy and procedure and lead to serious thinking on further improvement of locational inter-relationship of housing and the various commercial, recreational, transport and other services and facilities for the benefit of the daily city commuters and people in particular and the Administration in general.
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