Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has directed a push to the Narela sub-city projects with an emphasis on developing it into an education hub, according to a Raj Niwas statement on Monday.
Saxena has personally taken charge of improving connectivity, civic infrastructure, and new projects in the Narela sub-city area, an ambitious DDA project that has been neglected so far.
Chairing a meeting with the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) recently, the LG directed that a major portion of the Narela sub-city be developed into an educational hub by providing land parcels to universities and other academic institutions looking for land to set up campuses, according to the statement.
Institutions to which land has already been allotted include NIT (20.8 hectare), Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (20 hectare) and National Institute of Homeopathy (4.04 hectare).
Also, under the proposed plan, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is to be allotted 8.08 hectare and Delhi Teachers University 4.04 hectare in the area, it said.
The LG has directed DDA that all these land parcels should be allotted in a cluster, close to its housing projects, so as to ensure that residential and hostel facilities are already available for the institutions.
