Gwalior West Explained

Gwalior West
Settlement Type:Suburb
Pushpin Map:India Madhya Pradesh#India3
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Gwalior West Madhya Pradesh, India
Coordinates:26.2375°N 78.2306°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: India
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Madhya Pradesh
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Gwalior
Named For:Counter Magnet City
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:236
Population Rank:107
Population Density Km2:auto
Demographics Type1:Languages
Demographics1 Title1:Official
Demographics1 Info1:Hindi
Timezone1:IST
Utc Offset1:+5:30

Gwalior West is a development project under National Capital Region. It was started in 1992 to attract the population of Delhi. Gwalior was first city out of 5 Counter Magnets selected by the government.

Special Area Development Authority

The Special Area Development Authority (SADA) was created by Madhya Pradesh government to implement the counter magnet project of the National Capital Region (NCR) in Madhya Pradesh.[1] The chairman of its board is a political nominee. Its funding comes from the NCR Planning Board and the Madhya Pradesh government. The chief task of the SADA was to develop Gwalior West.[2]

SADA was in April 2000 given jurisdiction over 28,102 hectares of Gwalior district, and 1,912 hectares of Morena district, totalling 30,014 hectares and 36 villages. The entire region was Master planned by a firm called DKS Consultants who further gave the planning and engineering works to Rishi Dev Architects and Associates. They successfully completed the planning of the major phases of the project in 2006. The area is bounded to the West by the Tigra reservoir and Sank river, and to the East by the AH47 (previously the NH3). The ground is considered to be poor quality for agriculture, therefore suitable for urbanization.[3]

SADA was criticized in 2010 for inefficient budgeting, and for failing to produce a balance sheet.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Study on Counter Magnet Areas to Delhi and NCR. ncrpb.nic.in/cma_study.php. National Capital Region (India) Planning Board. 2008.
  2. Web site: Medium Term Strategic Evolution and Borrowers Assessment. National Capital Region (India) Planning Board. 92. April 2010.
  3. Web site: Gwalior Counter Magnet - National Capital Region. SADA. https://web.archive.org/web/20020609091028/http://ncrgwalior.com/counter_gwalior.htm. 9 June 2002. 2001. 2 January 2019. dead. dmy-all.