What is Lal Dora Land - Delhi Master Plan

The term "LAL Dora" was used for the first time this year the 1908th It is a name qualification of the part of village land, which is part of the village "Abadie" (residential). It should be used for non agricultural purposes only. It is this portion of land which should have been an extension of the village habitation, which the villagers to have their support systems, livestock, etc. In the old days, those areas marked by land revenue department by tying a Red Thread (Lal Dora in Hindi language) around it that a border and to distinguish it from the farmland. Lal Dora also indicates that the competence of municipal authorities or the urban development is not relevant, in toto.

In 1957, Delhi municipal corporation issued a declaration n and the government listed the lands LAL Dora classification, within and on the outskirts of Delhi.

Lal Dora was exempted from building bye laws and strict construction standards and rules which governed under the Delhi Municipal act. There was / is not necessary to apply for building sanction plans, etc. In 1963 adopted the MCD a notification which did not make it mandatory for building sanction plans to be passed in the urban Lal Dora land, too.

Although the term Lal Dora both rural and urban villages, the thin dividing line disappeared over the period, and prime areas of Delhi today (still known as Lal Dora) operates commercial & high end residential.

Villages as Basant Gaon, Munirka, Khirki, Yusuf Sarai, Katwaria Sarai, Mahipalpur, Chhatarpur, Sant Nagar, Rangpuri, Kanjhawla, Najafgarh, Lado Sarai, Mehrauli, Shahpur Jatt, etc. have all been included in the developed limits of Delhi and constitutes a part of the elite areas.

Lal Dora areas in some of the villages which are surrounded by farmland, have been included under the Delhi Master Plan MPD 2021st These Lal Dora lands would abut premium residential & commercial areas. To top it all, many of these lal Dora areas being extremely well connected through the initiatives proposed by the government to join Delhi city through a maze of highways, roads, metros, etc.

Many Lal Dora abadis have the facilities, which the government would ensure electricity connection, water from Delhi Jal board, drainage, etc. Under the new Master Plan for Delhi MPD 2021 is notified, would land many of these villages should be included in residential or commercial zones. With the provision of infrastructure to these areas, most of the past Lal Dora areas without these facilities & infrastructure included.

Statistics show that there are 362 villages in Delhi, of which 135 is classified as city-villages, and 227 classified as villages. Decades back, when the revenue settlement was carried out for Delhi for the first time, most of these villages were well defined and the population was counted within these limits. Country outside these Lal Dora land was assessed for land revenue, as farmland. Between 1908 and 1952 (when the consolidation was taken up again), the population of these enlarged villages and towns had extended beyond the earlier defined boundaries. The new periphery boundaries were described as "PHIRNI" and the areas between the former LAL Dora borders and "PHIRNI" became known as the extended Lal Dora area.

In August 1963 a notification issued by the then Delhi Administration, no building permits required for construction of the extended Lal Dora land, including where and when is the land owner to create a dwelling-house in own room / accommodation expenses.