NEHRU PLACE AASHNA

GARIMA
KHUSHBOO
NIKITA BANSAL
SHRISHTI SHASHI
INTRODUCTION
• Nehru place is a large commercial, financial, and
business centre in Delhi.

• Nehru place is a prominent commercial area in south

delhi and houses the headquarters of several indian firms.

• Its earlier name was kalkaji complex.

• It was the biggest of all the 15 district centres

proposed in the 1962 master plan of Delhi.

• Planned by Delhi development authority, the 38-

hectare site was built atop the aravalli mountain range.

• By the 1980s, it was renamed Nehru Place, after

Jawaharlal Nehru, and functioned more as a regional
commercial, financial and business centre.

• Today, it is one of Asia’s largest IT hubs.

• Hundreds of shops sell hardware from computers to

spare parts, second-hand products, and pirated software.
From textile and digital printing shops to multinational
technology companies and hawkers, Nehru Place is a
confluence of informal and corporate labour, bringing
1,30,000 people daily from all corners of Delhi.
 LOCATION

INDIA NEW DELHI SOUTH DELHI NEHRU PLACE

ACCESSIBILITY
As Nehru place lies next to the outer ring road, an arc that encompasses major parts of south Delhi, it can be easily accessed by all
forms of public transport.
Lotus
It has its own delhi-metro station on violet line. ST. NAGAR Temple
It has its own bus terminal, popularly known as nehru place bus
terminal. 30 minutes from nizamuddin railway station and 1 hour
from new delhi railway station.
Metro
Station

DELHI METRO VIOLET LINE

OUTER RING ROAD
LALA LAJPAT RAI ROAD
Bus
ARTERIAL ROAD Termina
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CORE COMPLEX
OFFICE TOWERS
CHIRAG
SATYAM CINEPLEX ENCLAVE

MULTI-LEVEL PARKING KALKAJI

EROS HOTEL
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ACTIVITIES
Nehru Place was planned to decentralize Delhi’s
commercial activity from Chandni chowk and
Connaught place.
The main plaza is a 4-storey complex, home to around
1500 offices,400 registered IT dealers, computer
retailers, textile and digital printing shops and eateries.
The common areas of plaza are dotted with 600
hawkers.
Between the textile, digital printing and IT industries
and hundreds of hawkers selling items from spare
electronics parts and pirated software to clothes and shoes,
Nehru Place has become a city of its own.
1.FORMAL ACTIVITIES

IT HARDWARE/DOCUMENTATION ELECTRONICS

PLAN SHOWING AREAS OF FORMAL ACTIVITIES

TOTAL FORMAL RETAIL AREA : 12877.81 SQM
FOOD JOINTS FABRICS
2.INFORMAL ACTIVITIES TOWERS
CORE OFFICE COMPLEX

PLAN SHOWING AREAS OF PLAN SHOWING AREAS OF CORE PLAN SHOWING AREAS OF
INFORMAL ACTIVITIES OFFICE COMPLEX TOWER
MAXIMUM HEIGHT G+8 LOCATED AROUND OFFICE
TOTAL PAVED AREA : 16501.70 SQM APPROX
AREA : 1,40,000 SQM COMPLEX
TOTAL INFORMAL RETAIL AREA : 9900.259SQM
AREA 1,70,000 SQM

HAWKERS CORE OFFICE COMPLEX TOWER

MOVEMENT
VEHICULAR

SURFACE PARKING PLAN BASEMENT PARKING PLAN MULTILEVEL PARING PLAN

SURFACE PARKING BASEMENT PARKING MULTILEVEL T PARKING

1. Parking area near devika towers
• Capacty- 50 cars
50 two-wheelers
• BUT DUE TO INFORMAL MANNER OF PARKING OF
THE CARS APPROX 70 CARS CAN be PARKED IN
THIS AREA
2. Parking area near modi towers four –wheeler)
• Capacity-90 cars
4-WHEELER PARKING. 350 CARS 2-WHEELER PARKING. VEHICLES
• Due to informal manner of parking 115 cars can be
GET PARKED AT A TIME WHICH IS WERE PARKED MUCH MORE
parked at a time.
ALMOST DOUBLE THE THEN PROPOSED
• Fare –rs 20/- per hour
PROPOSED
3.Parking area near vishal bhawan(four –wheeler)
• Capacity -120 cars at a time
• Informal parking
4. Parking near modi towers(tow wheelers)
• Capacity-115 bikes at a time
• Fare- rs 10/- per hour
5. Parking near vishal bhawan (two-wheelers) 4-WHEELER PARKING NERA MODI BASEMENT PAKING.
• Capacity -250 at a time TOWERS. THIS PARKING IS MUCH
• Informal manner of parking PLANNED.
6.Basemnet parking
• Capacity-100 two wheeler and four wheeler
7. Informal parking
Shop owners car was parked infront of there shops.
Hawkers zone(7) was also used as car parking
and also three wheelers were parked.

AUTO STANDS PARKED IN FRONT RICKSHAWS AND CYCLES ARE

OF THE ENTRY GATE OF THE PARKED INSIDE THE COURTYARD.
TOWER SHOING INFORMAL
PARKING.
PEDESTRIAN COURTYARD

PARKING
• Informal activities taking place in the open space.
• Since most informal activity takes place on the central
courtyards therefore a large number of hawkers are present.
PARKING These hawkers occupy over 60% of courtyard spaces which
FROM METRO STATION creates congestions for movement.
PARKING

• No green space around the premises

• Irregular in movement due to hawkers present in between of

the passage.

• Very poor lighting.

PARKING
• No sitting space provided for the customers .
FROM BUS STOPS AND AUTOS

PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT PLAN.

SHOWING HOW PEOPLE MOVE FROM PARKING
LOTS,METRO STATIONS,BUS STOPS AND THEN ENTER THE
MARKET..THEN WHERE DO THEY MOVE(IN
COURTYARD,SHOPS,OFFICES
STREET SECTION
USER GROUPS
TIME - 2:00pm to 2:15pm
AGE GROUPS 0-12 13-18 19-24 25-35 35-50 50
(YEARS) ONWARDS
NO.OF PEOPLE 0 0 68 206 64 0

25-35 YEARS

35-50 YEARS

19-24 YEARS

• PEOPLE FROM ALL AGE GROUPS VISIT THIS PLACE SINCE

ELECTRONICS IS A NECESSITY USED BY ANYONE AND EVERYONE.

• BUT THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE VISITING LIES BETWEEN 25-

35YEARS.

• SECOND MOST USERS VISITED ARE OF THE CATEGORY OF 19-24

YEARS AND LASTLY 35-30 YEARS.

• AND THERE ARE RARELY ANY OF THE OTHER THREE CATEGORIES.

DEMOGRAPHICS
MORNING 10 AM AFTERNOON 2 PM EVENING 6 PM

HIGH DENSITY IN OFFICE COMPLEX OFFICE GOERS VISIT PLAZA FOR LUNCH OFFICE GOERS LEAVE
SPARSE CONSUMERS CONSUMERS INCREASES PLAZA HEAVILY CROWDED

PEOPLE GOING TO THEIR OFFICES CROWD DURING LUNCH HRS. SOME PEOPLE GOING HOME AFTER OFFICE
AND SHOPS. ALSO, HAWKERS GOING FOR EATING, SOME FOR HARDWARE AND THE SHOPKEEPERS TOO AS THE
TO THEIR RESPECTIVE PLACES TO SET REPAIRING, AND SOME FOR MARKET SHUT DOWNS BETWEEN 7-8
UP THEIR SHOPS HARDWARE SHOPPING. PM
SAFETY AND SECURITY
• No such dark areas are present inside or near Nehru
place market .
• In day as well during night time, this area is under police
surveillance.
• Females feel safe till the market shut downs at 8:30 pm.
POLICE BOOTH AT REAR ENTRANCE
Enough street lights are present in the corridor. Even
some females have their own shops.
• Nehru place is under CCTV surveillance.

POLICE BOOTH IN THE COURTYARD

PRESENCE OF CCTV CAMERAS FEMALES WALKING ALONE IN THE MARKET

• Nehru place is not handicap friendly.

• No such public convinience is there.
 Swot ANALYSIS
• STRENGTH WEAKNESS
• Nehru place is located on the Outer Ring Road so it can
be easily accessible by the other parts of the Delhi. •Since it was not planned to accommodate these numbers, the
• As the market is just opposite to Kalkaji Colony and CR result is congestion, lack of sanitation, and a degenerating
Park so it makes the market secure. infrastructure in and around the areas surrounding Nehru
• Moreover police patrolling is also there when the market Place.
shut downs.
Being an IT Hub, the market caters more to the people of •The market is not so User Friendly, i.e. can’t be easily
age group 25-35 years because of there shops or job or accessed by handicaps and senior citizens find it difficult to
shopping, etc. climb the stairs
• Nehru Place is designed in such a way that large open
spaces are there between the towers, in form of courtyards
and parking. Due to long courtyard connectivity fresh air
enter these corridors with a thrust.
• Parking are designed near to the Towers which makes it
easy for the crowd and the employees and also to the
transporters. THREATS
• Office blocks are on the second floor which are totally
•The United States has named New Delhi's popular Nehru Place
segregated from the loud and the crowd.
as among the world's notorious markets for pirated and
counterfeited products including software.

•The ever growing number of hawkers also cause a threat to the

OPPOURTUNITIES placemaking of nehru place causing congestion in movement.

•There can be green spaces or recreational spaces which •There have been many bomb scares in nehru place in last
socialise the office employees and the shopkeepers. decade.

•The hawkers can be assigned a more specific corners/blocks •The security is less as compared to the footfall.
or square rather than the central open courtyards.