November 25, 2025

As was updated earlier, despite best of our efforts, we were not able to get any written consent from a particular section of our sector. This stopped us from achieving ‘70% consent to the consortium’ criteria. After discussing it with DDA officials at Land Pooling – Pitampura office and planning division at Vikar Minar, we have submitted a written proposal on 19th of November, 2025, to further divide sector 7a into two parts, as, Sector 7a and Sector 7a Extn. We have written consent from around 70% landowners in the newly proposed sector 7a and have a good understanding with the most of the remaining landowners. Please refer the attached proposal, as presented to DDA, for more details.

Also, as informed earlier, the DDA is prioritizing land pooling implementation for Sector 8B of the P-2 Zone, to be presented as an example. They were the first to achieve 70% landowners’ consent for their consortium. We are of the opinion that once the policy is implemented in even a single sector, it will be considered successful and will encourage the reluctant landowners to participate.

As the Delhi Land Pooling Policy is unique in nature and is moving through stages of practical execution, several technical and procedural challenges emerged during implementation. Sector 8B, being the first sector to advance in the process, is where the DDA got to iron out these complexities.

For example, one such challenge relates to the 40% land that landowners must transfer to DDA. The land could first be transferred by landowners to the consortium — and then from consortium to DDA — or it could be directly transferred by landowners to DDA (will be a cleaner approach but could be more tedious). This includes determining what legal documentation will be required, who will bear the cost of such transfers, and how the land should be conveyed since different SPAs will utilise different portions for roads (approx. 12%), schools, and other public/semi-public facilities. Most such issues have been catered at the DDA’s end and they are progressing towards taking the final steps towards policy implementation in Sector 8b.

Once DDA successfully implements the policy in this Sector 8b, the process will become significantly easier to replicate across subsequent sectors, including our Sector 7A.

Also, on 6 November 2025, the LG approved a change of land use for 40.23 hectares of Sector 8b under the land pooling policy paving way for the policy implementation in the sector.

DDA officials have informed us that they are very close to making Sector 8B operational. Once this is done, it will mark the successful implementation of the policy and will make it easier for sectors like ours to obtain consent from the non-cooperating landowners in our sector.

How this benefits us:

• It will establish the policy as successful.
• All technical concerns up to the stage of policy implementation would have been addressed by the DDA, providing subsequent sectors with a clear and standardized SOP to follow.
• It will restore stakeholders’ trust—including landowners who have been reluctant to participate so far. As landowners in other sectors, including ours, will be able to see tangible progress and outcomes, it will help consortiums in securing written consents faster.
• It will strengthen institutional capacity, as the DDA and related departments will gain practical experience and refine their processes.
• It will enhance investor confidence, potentially attracting private sector participation and hence improving the land costs.

Suggestions are always welcome.