| Delhi | Central Delhi | 1,483 | 16,788 |
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| Shahdara | |||
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| Haryana | Bhiwani | 25,327 | 11,031 |
| Charkhi Dadri | |||
| Faridabad | |||
| Gurgaon | |||
| Jhajjar | |||
| Jind | |||
| Karnal | |||
| Mahendragarh | |||
| Nuh | |||
| Palwal | |||
| Panipat | |||
| Rewari | |||
| Rohtak | |||
| Sonipat | |||
| Rajasthan | Alwar | 13,447 [20] |
3,674 |
| Bharatpur | |||
| Uttar Pradesh | Baghpat | 14,727 | 14,576 |
| Bulandshahr | |||
| Gautam Buddh Nagar | |||
| Ghaziabad | |||
| Hapur | |||
| Meerut | |||
| Muzaffarnagar | |||
| Shamli | |||
| Total | 54,984 | 46,069 | |
Regional planning
The planning body for the region is the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB). It has issued two regional plans, the “Regional Plan 2001, National Capital Region” approved in 1988, and the “Regional Plan 2021, National Capital Region” approved in 2005. Topics covered by the 2001 plan included transport, telecommunications, power and water supply, waste and sewerage, education, health, the environment, housing and the “counter magnet” areas. The 2021 plan extended these with the additional topics of social infrastructure, heritage, tourism, rural development, and disaster management.
The 51% of pollution in NCR is caused by the industrial pollution, 27% by vehicles and 8% by crop burning, consequently there are plans to create a 1,600 km long and 5 km wide The Great Green Wall of Aravalli green ecological corridor along Aravalli range from Gujarat to Delhi to be connected to Sivalik hill range with the planting of 1.35 billion (135 crore) new native trees over 10 years. About 46% of the National Capital Region, home to 40 to 50 million people, is not connected to sewage networks. Sewage from these areas flows into stormwater drains that empty directly into the Yamuna.
Transport
The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), a Joint Venture company of the Government of India and states of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, is mandated for implementing the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) project across the National Capital Region (NCR), ensuring a balanced and sustainable urban development through better connectivity and access.
The Union Cabinet approved constitution of the NCRTC under the Companies Act, 1956 in July, 2013 for designing, developing, implementing, financing, operating and maintaining Regional Rapid Transit system (RRTS) in the NCR to provide comfortable and fast transit to the NCR towns and meet the high growth in transport demand. Accordingly, NCRTC was incorporated on 21 August 2013. Vinay Kumar Singh was appointed as the first regular Managing Director of NCRTC in July 2016.
Out of the 8 identified RRTS Corridors, the following three corridors were prioritized for implementation by Planning Commission:
- Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut
- Delhi-Gurugram-SNB-Alwar
- Delhi-Panipat
Central National Capital Region
The 2001 regional plan defined the “Delhi Metropolitan Area” (DMA) as including Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Kundli and Sonipat. The 2021 plan renamed the area as the “Central National Capital Region” (CNCR), covering about 2,000 km2 (770 sq mi) in addition to the 1,483 km2 (573 sq mi) of the NCT of Delhi.
The 2021 plan estimated the 2001 population of the CNCR outside of Delhi to be over 2.8 million, while Delhi’s population was 13.8 million, yielding a total CNCR population of 16.6 million. As of 2016 the most recent population estimates have spanned 25.7 to 26.5 million people.
Counter magnets
The 1985 Act (§2.c and §8.f) gives the NCRCB has the ability to select districts outside of the NCR to act as counter magnets, with a view to developing them further.: 2, 10 Counter-magnet cities are identified as those that can be developed as alternative centres of growth and attract migrants to them rather than Delhi.: 121 The criteria for selecting counter magnet towns are: that they should have their own established roots and potential of growth,: 121 and should not be centres of either religious, strategic or environmental importance. The counter magnet cities should be given priority when allocating funding for development of land, housing and infrastructure.: 126
These cities, with their distances from the Delhi, are:
In Haryana state
- Hisar, 160 km
- Ambala, 200 km
In Madhya Pradesh state
- Gwalior (particularly Gwalior West), 320 km
In Punjab state
- Patiala, 230 km
In Rajasthan state
- Jaipur, 268 km
- Kota, 525 km
In Uttar Pradesh state
- Bareilly, 250 km
- Kanpur, 470 km
In Uttarakhand
- Dehradun, 240 km