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DDA's Master Plan 2021 bags Madrid excellence awardBy Riti, Section Noida Real Estate Property
In an irony of sorts, the controversial DDA Master Plan 2021 (MPD-2021), much criticised in Delhi, has actually been named the best in a competition on urban planning in Madrid. The DDA document managed to bag the "2008 ISOCARP Award for Excellence for Master Plan for Delhi 2021" in Madrid, Spain. Back home, the said plan continues to be shrouded in controversy and measures laid out therein have been labelled populist by many. The document is currently under review of the Supreme Court.
DDA's Master Plan is one of the six projects in urban planning selected out of 17 countries for the recognition. Besides Delhi, the award has been given to one institution each in the Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico, Poland and China. The International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) is a professional Association of City & Regional Planners, with members from more than 75 developed and developing countries and recognized by the UN, Council of Europe, with consultative status with UNESCO. ISOCARP decided to award the DDA plan during a meeting of the jury held in Madrid, Spain, on July 17, 2008. However, ISOCARP, which had instituted Award for Excellence on its 44th Anniversary in the year 2005, gives it to a city or an institution in recognition of exceptionally innovative urban and regional planning initiatives that best express the theme of the ISOCARP Congress, that year. The theme of ISOCARP Congress this year is "Urban Growth without Sprawl -- A way towards Sustainable Urbanization". The award will be given at a ceremony in Spain in November on the occasion of World Planning Day. Source:The Times Of India August20th,2008.
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