Delhi has declared 48 villages as urban areas, bringing their old abadi settlements and entire revenue areas within the notified urban boundary and allowing elected representatives’ development funds to be spent there, according to a notification issued by the Delhi government.
The notification was issued by the Urban Development Department after Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu issued it on October 23. The decision covers villages spread across Outer North, North, North-West, North-East, South, South-West and South-East Delhi.
The villages named in the notification include Bakoli, Palla, Hamidpur, Singola, Tajpur Kalan, Mungeshpur, Jagatpur, Sabapur, Badarpur Majra in Burari, Fatehpur Beri, Chhawla, Ghumanhera, Bijwasan, Kair, Dhansa, Galibpur and Chak Chilla, among others. The notification covers both the existing old habitation areas and the complete revenue areas of the selected villages.
The administrative change is significant because these areas were previously treated through their village and revenue-area status rather than being fully incorporated into the notified urban framework. The order now gives the listed settlements an urban designation across their entire revenue areas, according to the report published by Jagran.
The immediate practical implication identified in the notification is that funds allocated by legislators and members of Parliament can now be spent in these villages. Such funding is generally used for local development works, and the change in status is expected to alter the route through which infrastructure and civic works can be taken up in the affected areas.
The villages are located across several parts of Delhi rather than in a single municipal cluster. The list includes settlements in the city’s northern and north-eastern edges, as well as villages in the southern and south-western parts, including Bijwasan, Fatehpur Beri, Chhawla and Ghumanhera. This spread gives the notification a city-wide administrative dimension.
The order also places the full revenue areas of the villages within the urban designation, rather than limiting the change to the already built-up old abadi areas. That distinction is central to the notification because it defines the geographical extent of the new status and may shape how future local development proposals are processed.
The notification does not, in the supplied report, specify individual projects, construction schedules, budget allocations or a separate implementation timetable for each village. The next stage will therefore depend on how the relevant authorities and elected representatives apply the new urban classification to local development works. The Urban Development Department’s notification remains the operative document for the change.
