DDA Approves ₹8,720 Crore Annual Budget for 2025-26

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA), chaired by Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena, has approved its annual budget for 2025-26, pegging total expenditure at ₹8,720 crore and projecting a surplus of ₹840 crore.

- Snehil Sinha

NEW DELHI: The land-owning agency expects receipts of ₹9,560 crore, up from a surplus of ₹372 crore in 2024-25.

Nearly half the budget—₹4,140 crore—has been earmarked for capital expenditure. This includes the development of roads, parks, infrastructure upgrades, and air quality improvement through road repair and reconstruction.

Driven by a push to monetise unsold housing stock, DDA said it had recorded ₹3,176 crore in housing receipts in 2024-25—a 132% increase from ₹2,398 crore the previous year. For 2025-26, housing receipts are projected at ₹4,000 crore, a DDA spokesperson said.

The land-owning authority has also set an ambitious target of ₹1,000 crore in licence fee collections. "DDA will undertake a range of developmental projects focusing on housing, heritage conservation, and public spaces. Our aim is to make DDA financially sustainable through internal resources," Saxena said.