DDA identified 587 ha of floodplain: Report

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has identified 587 hectares of Yamuna floodplains area based on the one-in-25-year flooding criteria — a location along a river that has a 4% chance of flooding in a year — and will undertake a ground survey, remove encroachments and erect bollards where required, it informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

- Jasjeev Gandhiok

NEW DELHI:

"As of now, in the preliminary analysis, which was a tabletop exercise, the khasra layer provided by GSDL has been superimposed to identify DDA Khasras falling within the "O" Zone and the 1:25-years floodplain of the Yamuna River. Subsequently, built-up areas have been marked on the identified DDA Khasras—approximately 562 hectares in the "O" Zone and around 25 hectares in the 1:25-year floodplain of the Yamuna river," DDA said in a progress report dated April 29.