The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is going to start on upgrading and enhancing the drainage system that will prevent incidents like flooding of runways, terminals and surroundings of the premier Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport and the adjoining sectors of Dwarka that made headlines and caused International embarrassment for the Nation's Capital.

New Delhi [India], September 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has granted permission to two Ramleela committees to hold Ramleela and Dussehra celebrations in Delhi Development Authority (DDA) parks in Kirti Nagar and Tri Nagar.

New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought responses from Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Delhi Police and the National Commission for Safai Karmacharis (NCSK) over the death of two persons recently after allegedly inhaling toxic gases inside a sewer in outer Delhi area.

New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Thursday ordered the registration of an First Information Report (FIR) against 11 former Delhi Development Authority (DDA) officials over alleged financial misappropriation and violation of norms.

New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Vinai Kumar Saxena has suspended two more officers in a corruption case. Two days back, the Lieutenant Governor had suspended four officers in other cases. Now, action has been taken against two other officers for wrongly selling Delhi Development Authority land.

New Delhi [India] May 21 (ANI): At least one person was killed and two others were injured after a wall collapsed in DDA flats Pochanpur in Delhi's Dwarka on Saturday.

New Delhi Apr 21 PTI The Delhi Development Authority DDA has digitised 1500 layout plans covering planned areas of the national capital and made them available on a GIS platform for use by general public the land-owning agency said in a statement issued on Thursday Listing the initiatives taken under the digital transformational plan the DDA said land pooling is yet another area where the digitisation has been done effectively DDA has digitised 1500 layout plans covering planned areas of Delhi and has made them available on a GIS platform for use by general public On this platform attributes in respect every plot its dimensions land use etc can be verified the statement said The land pooling portal for registration of public is operational and various maps of land pooling area have been digitised and uploaded on the portal Servers have been taken from NIC for this purpose and very soon the land pooling application will be made operational end-to-end As many as 6922 landowners have registered online for expressing the interest in land pooling it added In DDA office the computerized record rooms have been established for systematic record management More than two lakh files have been ported by various departments on this system and placed in almirahs with proper system The digitisation of old records includes scanning and digitisation of more than six lakh files 1500 layout plans planning maps revenue maps of 240 villages and personal records of employees among others the statement said PTI GJS GJS KVK KVK

New Delhi Apr 18 PTI The Delhi Development Authority successfully conducted draw of lots for the DDA Special Housing Scheme 2021 on Monday officials said The draw for the allotment of flats which was live streamed for general public was done based on Random Number Generation System and held under the supervision of three independent observers headed by a retired judge of high court and senior officers of DDADDA initially placed 18335 flats located in 28 localities under the scheme In response to it only 12387 applicants have deposited requisite registration fee although around 22100 got themselves registeredThe applicants were allowed to give maximum seven preferences in terms of localities but no preference in terms of block or floor is allowed a senior DDA official saidOut of the applicants paid registration money preference for certain localities like Vasant Kunj Jasola Dwarka is overwhelming but the preferences for Narela sub-city have not been as expected the official addedCumulative preferences of the applicants for LIG flats at Sector G7 and EWS flats at Sector A1 to A4 Narela have been 687 and 2234 respectively against the offered 6546 and 5033 flats in the above localitiesTherefore it was decided to put only 687 and 2346 flats of the above localities in the final draw so as to avoid possibility of scattered allotment of flats to the applicants among various blocks or tower in these localitiesGiven the above facts 9790 flats have been put in the final draw and 5227 flats have been allotted to successful applicants the official added PTI GJS GJS TDS TDS

New Delhi Mar 24 PTI A fire broke out in a pandal in northwest Delhis Rohini area on Thursday afternoon police saidThe pandal owner sustained minor injuries in the incident they saidAround 143 pm a PCR call was received about the fire that broke out in a pandal set up on DDA land Deputy Commissioner of Police Rohini Pranav Tayal saidImmediately a message was relayed to the fire brigade and 14 fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze he saidSome workers were inside the pandal when the fire broke out but they managed to get out in time Tayal saidThe pandal owner Upender Singh who was also present at the spot sustained minor injuries on his right arm in the incident An investigation is underway to ascertain the cause of the fire he saidThe fire was doused around 330 pm the police saidThe pandal is situated near a fire station and our team reached the spot after seeing the smoke rising from it Two cars and a motorcycle were damaged in the fire We will conduct an inspection to check whether anyone was trapped inside once the heat reduces a senior fire department official said PTI NIT DIV DIV

New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Flats in Vasant Kunj offered by DDA under its Housing Scheme 2019 had received an overwhelming response but those located in Narela did not get adequate response the government said on ThursdayMinister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore said this in a written response to a question in Lok SabhaDelhi Development Authority DDA has informed that flats offered in Vasant Kunj under DDA Housing Scheme 2019 had received an overwhelming response However the flats offered in Narela did not get the adequate response the minister said and shared block-wise break-up for the flats included in draw of lots and allotment for the sameThe scheme was for sale of nearly 18000 newly built flats in Delhis Vasant Kunj and Narela residential areas for which the DDA had received about 50000 applications DDA officials had earlier saidIn response to another question the minister said as per the DDA Housing Regulations 1968 the property allotment committee is not responsible for looking after day to day maintenance of the flatsHowever this task is assigned to a registered agency or local resident welfare association RWA of the cluster of flats pockets concerned It is mandatory for each allottee to become member of such RWA he saidThe DDA has informed that the allottees are aware that they will have to mandatorily become a part of the registered agency as it is a pre-condition of allotment as mentioned in the condition no 14 of DDA Housing Scheme 2019 brochure he added PTI KND TDS TDS