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The Master Plan for Delhi 1962 (MPD - 62) was prepared and enforced under the Delhi Development Act, 1957 (the Act). At the point of time it was realised that the solution of the impending problems of the National Capital could only be found in regional context and as such the MPD - 62 recommended that a statutory National Capital Region Planning Board should be set up for ensuring balanced and harmonised development of the region. The National Capital Region Planning Board Act, 1985 (Capital Region Act) came into force on February 11, 1985. The National Capital Region Plan - 2001 (the Regional Plan) was published as a statutory document. In the words of the then chairperson, National Capital Region Planning Board, the purpose sought to be achieved by the Regional Plan was as under :

"The two important goals to be achieved by the Regional Plan are a balanced and harmoniously developed region, leading to dispersal of economic activities and immigrants to Delhi, thereby leading to a manageable Delhi. This is to be achieved by the progressive deconcentration of population and economic activities in the Region and their judicial dispersal to various priority towns as identified in