NCR Constituent Areas

NCR Constituent Areas

National Capital Region (NCR) is one of the first experimented Regions of the country. It is a unique example for inter-state regional development planning for a region with Nation Capital as its core. The National Capital Region as notified covers an area of about 33,578 sq kms falling in the territorial jurisdictions of four State Governments namely, National Capital Territory of Delhi, Haryana, UP, and Rajasthan. It is one of the largest National Capital Region of the World and constitutes about 1.60% of the country’s land area, about 86% of the total area of Kerala State and its area is more than the combined area of three States of Tripura, Nagaland and Sikkim.
NCR is characterized by the presence of highly ecologically sensitive areas like extension of Aravalli ridge, Forests, Wild life and Bird sanctuaries, rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Hindon, fertile cultivated and is a dynamic rural-urban region being the home of 371 lakhs people living in 108 towns of which 17 are class I cities and more than 7500 rural settlements.
The four constituent Sub-Regions of NCR are given below:
1) The Haryana Sub-Region comprises of nine districts, that is, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Mewat, Rohtak, Sonepat, Rewari, Jhajjhar (Bhadurgarh), Panipat and Palwal together constituting about 40% (13,413 sq. kms.) of the Region;
2) The Uttar Pradesh Sub-Region comprises of five districts, that is, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budha Nagar, Bulandshahr, and Baghpat together constituting about 32% ( 10,853 sq. kms.) of the Region;
3) The Rajasthan Sub-Region comprises of Alwar district constituting about 23% (7,829 sq. kms.) of the Region ; &
4) The NCT of Delhi constituting about 5% (1,483 sq. kms.) of the Region.