Urban Design-IX

Case Study- Nehru Place

Anjali Mittal | Anushika Aggarwal | Prerna Rawat | Sanchita Jha | Ayushi Khandelwal
 Introduction
• Nehru Place, located on a site of 96 acres was one of the first
district centres built in the mid seventies as per the Delhi Master
Plan 1961.
• Located on the corner of the Outer Ring Road and Lala Lajpat Rai
Marg across from Kalkaji, Nehru Place is easily accessible from
most areas of South Delhi
• Nehru Place is known as the ‘Electronics Hub of Delhi’ and
focuses more on retailing Electronics, Appliances, Computers,
Laptops and accessories, etc.
• The master plan for the district centre prepared by the planning
department of the DDA, was developed around a number of
well defined square plazas
• The central space was continuous and uninterrupted, free of
vehicular traffic. The overall concept was simple and direct, and
despite poor maintenance this still remains an urban space of
some significance. A space that now urgently calls for
improvement and upgrading.

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Delhi Master
Plan

Source : Masterplan Delhi

Nehru Place
 Physical
Infrastructure
• A key issue related to the sustainable
development of Delhi, and a minimum
quality and standard of living pertains to
the availability of, and accessibility to basic
infrastructure facilities viz. water, power,
sewerage, drainage and solid waste
management.
• The rapid and almost uncontrolled growth
of population has put these facilities under
severe pressure, and there are significant
deficiencies.
Delhi- Ridge & the River

• Delhi’s storm water drains from the western ridge

areas to the river situated in the east. There are 19
major drain outfalls into the River Yamuna.
• Barapullah Drain
Nehru Place- Drainage
 Sewage
Treatment Plant
• Delhi’ Sewage treatment plant is divided
into six major zone.
• The Nehru Place dumps its sewage to
Okhla, which is 4.7Kms away.
• There is a proposal for a larger sewage
treatment plant since the current sewage
treatment plant is not able to cater to the
current requirements.
• The new proposal is supposed to equip
124 million gallons of waste water per day.

Source : audit report by lieutenant governor of delhi

Source : Yamuna River Project
Source : Yamuna River Project
Garbage Dump

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Landfill- Okhla
• Okhla landfill is spreads across an area of 40 acres.
• The site was commissioned in 1996 for the use
of South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC).
• Of the 3,500 tonnes of waste collected by SDMC
everyday, 1,200 tonnes were being dumped in the
Okhla Landfill despite the site was declared
exhausted in 2010.
• After reaching a height of 55 meters, thrice the
permissible limit, the site was finally
decommissioned in 2018.
• The civic agency now aims to complete the
remediation of the Okhla landfill within one-and-
a-half years to convert it into a green cover.
Power
• The 400/220KV substation with 2,000MVA
capacity in Tughlaqabad was commissioned after
the old and polluting Badarpur Thermal Power
Station (BTPS) was permanently shut on October
15 ‘2018.

Source bsesdelhi.com
Drains
The zone F is almost fully served by
underground sewerage. The zone F has
several major storm water drains, which
flush out the storm water into the river.

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Public Toilets

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 BSES-
Customer Care
INFRASTRUCTURE
Social infrastructure-Introduction

• The quality of life in any urban centre

depends upon the availability of and
accessibility to quality social
infrastructure.
• Social infrastructure include facilities
pertaining to health, education, sports
facilities, socio-cultural activities,
communications, security and safety,
and other community facilities
pertaining to recreation, religious
activities, social congregations and
community events, cremation / burial
grounds etc.
• These are generally planned in terms of
population norms with stipulated
permissibility conditions and
development controls.
Source : projects.cbix.in (internet)
Health
• MPD-2021 states that the existing bed density
per thousand population in Delhi works out to
only 2.2. The World Health Organization (WHO)
has recommended a norm of 5 beds per
thousand population.
• The two hospitals that were there in the vicinity
of Nehru place were : Fortis hospital and Triton
hospital
• In Triton Hospital there are 22 bedding and 10
doctors attend to the patient.
• In Fortis Hospital there are 25 bedding.

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Education
There were two institutes near Nehru place :
Jagannath international management and New Delhi
institute of information technology

Source : google map image (internet) Source : google map image (internet)
 Communication
Following means of communication are available:
• Telephone Exchange
• Post Office

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Security- Police
• The main agency looking after security aspect in
the city is Delhi Police.
• At present, Fourteen Police Stations at different
locations are existing in this zone.
• In our area, there is 1 Police station and 2 Booths.

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 Safety- Fire station
• As per norms, three Fire Stations for every 5 lakh
population areto be provided in 5-7 Km. radius,
therefore 12 Fire Stations are required in this Zone.

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Religious
• There were two temples in the region :
• Prachin bhairav mandir
• Shiv mandir
These mandir were very easily accessible by the
metros
Socio-culture
• Epicuria is a part of metro station, hence it
advantages from metro’s easy accessibility.
• Infront of the epicuria, there is an inox.

Source : projects.cbix.in (internet)

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Thank You 