The draft proposal for developing a logistics hub on nearly 300 hectares of land near Dasna village along the Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) is likely to get the GDA board’s approval in its Jan 27 meeting.
In the works for over 2 years, the logistics hub is part of the Authority’s long-term traffic management plan to prevent heavy vehicles heading towards the capital or other adjacent industrial clusters in NCR from entering the city’s limits, and, at the same time, facilitate the smooth movement of raw materials and goods to its industries clusters.
GDA officials earlier told TOI the city’s roads at night are choked with heavy vehicles ferrying goods and construction materials to its various factories. They said the logistics hub would be planned on the city’s outskirts so that trucks would no longer need to enter the city.
Across its 10 industrial clusters, spread across Sahibabad, Bulandshahr and GT Road, the city has 1,09,842 micro industries, 4,075 small-scale industries and 443 medium-scale industries.
Subsequently, in July 2022, GDA identified 240 hectares of land in Kaushaliya and another 53.9 hectares in Bhojpur for the project. Proximity to the DME, EPE and also the Delhi-Howrah rail line, made the site strategic for freight movement.
Last year, the GDA made amendments in its unified Master Plan 2031 — which was cleared by the GDA board in Sept 2024 — to include a portion of the total 5% land (of the 33,543.1 hectares plan area) earmarked for industries to develop a logistics hub.
“After the amendment, land earmarked under the industrial head came down from 5.5% of the total plan area to 5%. Under this category, 8% was earmarked for developing a logistics hub,” a GDA official said.
The Master Plan 2031 covers an overall developed area of 18,687.8 hectares in Ghaziabad, 6,874.9 hectares in Modinagar, and 7,980.4 hectares in Loni.
The draft for the logistics hub, prepared by Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES), states the land will be acquired under the land pooling policy, under which 60% of the developed land will be used for a multi-modal logistics hub and the remaining 40% will be handed over to the farmers.
GDA is to act as a facilitator between farmers and industries, who will develop the hub in a PPP mode. In Dec 2021, the Union minister for road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, announced a similar multi-modal logistics hub along the Delhi-meerut Expressway. GDA has identified 150 hectares in Dasna for this project.
