KOTLA

MUBARAKPUR
URBAN VILLAGE
“URBAN VILLAGE TYPICALLY WOULD MEAN A WELL-PLANNED SET-UP
WITH A VILLAGE-CONCEPT OF BEING FAIRLY SELF-SUFFICIENT AND
CO CCO
NOT HAVING THE NEED TO TRAVEL LONG DISTANCES TO GET DAILY
THINGS DONE. WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, PERHAPS, IS THAT IT’S
INTENDED TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM OF INCREASING POPULATION IN
CITIES.”
INTRODUCTION
 KOTLA MUBARAKPUR WAS A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE SETTLED IN THE 15TH CENTURY
IN THE PRESENT SOUTH DELHI.
 CO CCO C
IT IS A HISTORICAL COMPLEX WITH TOMBS OF RULERS AND GOVERNORS FROM
SAYYID AND LOD HI DYNASTY.
 TODAY IT IS A BUSTLING MARKETPLACE AND A DENSELY POPULATED
URBAN VILLAGE.

COMMUNITY KUSUMPUR PAHARI

LOCATION KOTLA MUBARAKPUR: MEDIEVAL VILLAGE IN ZONE D. CLASSIFIED

BY DDA AS URBAN VILLAGE IN 1971.

ORIGIN SPORADIC LAND ENCROACHMENT

AREA 96 ACRES

POPULATION 27,000 (2011)

DENSITY 710 PPH

KEY SOURCES OF EMPLYOMENT DOMESTIC WORK IN DEFENSE COLONY AND SOUTH EXTENSION.
SMALL-SCALE ENTERPRISE. PAID WORK OUTSIDE COMMUNITY.
VILLAGES OF DELHI
 RURAL VILLAGES: 227 LOCALITIES KOTLA, PILANJI, KHAIRPUR, ALIGANJ AND JODBAGH.
 RURAL POPULATION: 6.82% IN 37.64% OF LAND
 URBANIZED VILLAGES: 135
 CO C
URBAN POPULATION: 8.47 MILLION IN 19 TO 16.75 MILLION IN
2011 (MORE THAN 55% GROWTH) PUTTING PRESSURE AND INCREASING
 RISKS.
GOVERNMENT IN THE PROCESS TO URBANIZE THE RURAL VILLAGES
TO REDUCE MIGRATION AND PRESSURE THUS INSTIGATING SPRAWL.

UNPLANNED AND HAPHAZARD URBAN GROWTH.

ACCORDING TO CENSUS DATA FROM 2001, DELHI’S URBANIZATION

LEVEL WAS 93.01 PER CENT, AND NUMEROUS STUDIES AND
GOVERNMENTS DOCUMENTS REVEAL THAT MORE THAN HALF OF
THESE RESIDENTS LIVE IN UNPLANNED SETTLEMENTS.

URBAN PLANNING
URBAN PLANNING IS A TECHNICAL AND POLITICAL PROCESS
CONCERNED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF LAND,
PROTECTION AND USE OF THE ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC WELFARE, CLASSIFIED BY THE DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (D.D.A.) AS AN URBAN
CO C
AND THE DESIGN OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING AIR, VILLAGE, ITS HISTORY CAN BE TRACED TO THE PROMINENT TOMB OF MUIZUD
DIN MUBARAK SHAH, SON OF KHIZR TH
KHAN OF THE SAYYID DYNASTY OF THE 15
WATER, AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE PASSING INTO AND OUT OFURBAN
CENTURY.
AREAS, SUCH AS TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS,
AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS.

INTRODUCTION
LOCATION ACCESSIBILITY
 KOTLA MUBARAKPUR VILLAGE IS LOCATED NEAR DEFENCE
COLONY IN SOUTH EX, NEW DELHI.
 THE SETTLEMENT IS BEEN THERE FROMTH
THE 15 CENTURY,
1
LODHI DYNASTY.
 THE VILLAGE IS SURROUNDED BY POSH COLONIES AND POSH 1 1
MARKETS.
2

2
2
MAP OF DELHI LOCATING MAP OF SOUTH EXTENSION
KOTLA MUBARAKPUR LOCATING KOTLA MUBARKPUR

METRO AND RAILWAY STATIONS

1 JANGPURA METRO STATION (2.5 KM)
2 LAJPAT NAGAR METRO STATION (2 KM)
1 SEWA NAGAR RAILWAY STATION (0.8 KM)
2 LODHI COLONY RAILWAY STATION (3 KM)

ROAD NETWORK
MAHATAMA GANDHI MARG BHISHMA PITAMAG MARG
(24 M WIDE) (18 M WIDE)
PRIMARY ROAD SECONDARY ROAD

KOTLA MUBARAKPUR
BUS STANDS
LOCATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
KOTLA MUBARAKPURIS SURROUNDED BY POSH COLONIES THERE ARE TWO MAJOR BUS STANDS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY.
( DEFENCE COLONTY) AND MARKETS WHICH GENERATE 1 SUKHDEV MARKET BUS STOP (0.3 KM)
EMPLOYMENT OPPURTUNITIES FOR THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE 2 DEFENCE COLONY BUS STOP (0.5 KM)
LIKE HOUSE MAIDS, DRIVERS, SERVANTS, SECURITY GAURDS
ETC.

LOCATION AND ACCESSIBILITY

NEIGHBOURHOOD LANDMARKS

TODAY KOTLA MUBARAKPUR

IS SURROUNDED BY POSH LOCALITIES SUCH AS DEFENCE COLONY ON
THE EAST, SO
CO CCO
UTH EXTENSION PART 1 ON THE SOUTH, KIDWAI NAGAR ON THE WEST
AND LODHI ESTATE ON THE NORTH.

SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL (4.2 KM) JAWAHARLAL NEHRU STADIUM

(1.5 KM)

INFERENCE
 THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF KOTLA MUBARAKPUR HELPS TO
GENERATE JOB CO CCO
OPPURTUNITIES FOR THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE. FOR EXAMPLE SAFDARGANJ AIRPORT AUTHORITY
AIIMS (3.2 KM)
EMPLOYMENT (2.4KM)
IN HOUSES AS DRIVERS, HOUSE MAIDS ETC.

LOCATION AND ACCESSIBILITY

HISTORY

KOTLA, THE OLDEST SETTLEMENT W
HICH ORIGINATED IN THE 15TH CEN
TURY.
THE ALIGANJ & PILANJI GROUP OF AREAS INHABITED BY GROUPS OF AREAS INHABITED BY DISPLACED PE
SETTLEMENT, FORMED BY FAMILIES MIGRANTS WHO CAME TO DELHI OPLE POST INDIA‐PAKISTAN PARTITI
REHABILITATED AFTER EVICTION F
C MAINLY AS LABOURERS DURING D ON (1947).
ROM AREAS WHICH WERE ACQUIR IFFERENT PHASES OF THE CAPITAL C
ED FOR THE NEW DELHI CAPITAL PR ONSTRUCTION PROJECT (1911‐47).
OJECT.

EVOLUTION

15TH CENTURY 17TH CENTURY (1911‐47) (1947)

 KOTLA MUBARAKPUR IS AN URBAN VILLAGE LIKE MEHRAULI AROUND WHICH THE SPRAWLING, MODERN COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OF
SOUTH EX AND PRIME RESIDENTIAL AREAS LIKE DEFENCE COLONY HAS GROWN UP.

C A SHORT LIVED ONE THAT FOLLOWED THE TUGHLAQS BUT WAS SOON
THE ORIGINAL VILLAGE DATES BACK TO THE SAYYID ERA WHICH WAS
OVERTHROWN BY THE LODHIS IN THE 15TH CENTURY. MOST OF THE SURVIVING MONUMENTS ARE FROM THE SAYYID AND LODHI ERA.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
 • KOTLA MUBARAKPUR IS A VILLAGE IN SOUTH DELHI, IT CONSISTS A NUMBER OF MONUMENTS BUT ARE NOT COMPACT IN ONE
COMPOUND.
• THESE MONUMENTS ARE SCATTERED OVER THE DENSELY POPULATED AREAS OF KOTLA MUBARAKPUR AND ITS ADJACENT AREAS
SUCH AS KIDWAI NAGAR EAST AND SOUTH EXTENSION. CO CCO
• THE ORIGINAL VILLAGE DATES BACK TO THE SAYYID ERA WHICH WAS A SHORT LIVED ONE THAT FOLLOWED THE TUGHLAQS BUT WAS
SOON OVERTHROWN BY THE LODHIS IN THE 15TH CENTURY.
• MOST OF THE SURVIVING MONUMENTS ARE FROM THE SAYYID AND LODHI ERA.

HERITAGE
 RING ROAD

BASE MAP
POPULATION
 THE CHART BELOW DEPICTS THE CHANGE IN TH POPULATION OF KOTLA
MUBARKPUR OVER HE YEARS.
 AS DEPICTED IN THE CHART THE POPULATION HAS INCREASED FROM 2,100
IN THE YEAR 1971 TO 27,00 IN THE YEAR 2011.
GENDER COMPOSITION
 IT WAS FOUND THAT THE NUMBER OF MALES OUTNUMBERS THE NUMBER
OF FEMALES IN THE TOTAL COMPOSITION OF THE VILLAGE.
 THIS HAS ALSO BEEN HIGHLIGHTED IN THE STUDY BY CAPLAN WHO SAYS THAT
IN THE CASE OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION, MALES ARE MORE IN NUMBER
THAN FEMALES.
 AS SHOWN IN TABLE, THERE ARE 57% MALE RESPONDENTS AS COMPARISON
TO 43% FEMALE RESPONDENTS.

POPOLATION GROWTH GENDER NUMBER PERCENTAGE

30000 MALE 15241 57%

FEMALE 11708 43%

25000 TOTAL 26949 100

MALES FEMALES

20000

OCCUPATION
15000  IT WAS FOUND OUT THAT FOR A MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION, THEIR JOBS
ARE SERVICE SECTR BASED.
 FOR MAX. POPULATION, PROPERTY RENT IS THE REASON FOR PHYSICAL
10000 TRANSFORMATIONS OF THEIR DWELLING AND THUS, THEIR MAIN SOURCE OF
INCOME.
 SMALL BUSINESSES FORM THE MAIN SHARE OF ALTERNATE INCOME.
5000

OCCUPATION PERCENTAGE Service Self-employed Dairy activity

0 SERVICE 60% 2%
1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 SELF-EMPLOYED 38%
38%
Series 1 Column1 Column2 DAIRY ACTIVITY 2%
60%

DEMOGRAPHICS
 LEGEND SOUTH-EX MARKET
MIXED USE
RESIDENTIAL
OPEN SPACES
TEMPLES
SOUTH-EX MARKET

RESIDENTIAL AREA OPEN SPACES

LAND USE PATTERN

 MOTORABLE CIRCULATION
 THE MAJOR ROADS ON WHICH THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR OF
KOTLA MUBARAKPUR IS CONCENTRATED FOR EXAMPLE,
GURDWARA ROAD, SHER SINGH ROAD ETC ARE ALL MOTARABLE.
 THE WIDTH OF THE ROADS IS 8-10 M.
 ALL THE MOTARABLE ROADS ARE CEMENTED.

PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
 THE ROADS ON WHICH THE MAJOR MARKET SHOPS ARE NOT
PRESENT ARE ALL NON MOTARABLE AND INVOLVE PEDESTRIAN
CIRCULATION.
 THE WIDTH OF THE ROADS IS 2.5-3.4 M.

PARKING
 NO OFFICAL SPACE FOR PARKING IS PROVIDED , THE RESIDENTS
PARK THEIR VEHICLES ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE VILLAGE. THE
 CONJESTION IN VEHICULAR MOVEMENT INCREASES BEACAUSE
OF THE SMALL WIDTH OF THE ROADS AND SOME
PARKING PEOPLE PARK THEIR CARS ON THE MAJAOR MOTARABLE ROADS.

VEHICULAR
MOVEMENT

INFERENCE
 THERE IS NO PROPER CIRCULATION PATTERN IN THE AREA.
 THE WIDTH OF THE ROADS IS VERY LESS WHICH RESULTS IN CONJESTION OF THE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC.
 BOTH THE PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ROADS ARE IN A VERY BAD CONDITION.

CIRCULATION PATTERN
PRIMARY ROAD SECONDARY ROAD TERTIARY ROAD

7-8 METERS
5-6 METERS
2-3METERS

WEEKLY MARKETS VENDORS INFORMAL ACTIVITIES

THE WEEKLY MARKETS IS ONLY ON MONDAYS BUT THE VENDORS STAND ANY WHERE THEY WANT, IT MANY PEOPLE HAVE MADE A TEMPORARY SHOP
BLOCKS THE ENTIRE ROAD AND CREATES CREATES CONJESTION ON THE ROADS AND HENCE FOR THEM ON THE ROAD SIDE, WHICH IS ILLEGAL
PROBLEMS FOR THE RESIDENTS. TRAFFIC. AND RDUCES THE ROAD WIDTH.

ACCESSIBILITY
EVOLUTION OF HOUSING TYPOLOGY
STRUCTURE PLANNING BUILDING HEIGHTS

KACCHA CONSTRUCTION RCC CONSTRUCTION THE HOUSEHOLD SIZE THE HOUSEHOLD SIZE IS THE VERTICAL EXPANSION THE VERTICAL EXPANSION
WAS BIG BECAUSE THERE COMPARITIVELY SMALL OF BUILDINGS WAS VERY IS A COMMON
WAS NO CONJESTION TODAY BECAUSE OF LESS. THE MAXIMUM PHENOMENA AND
INCREASE IN POPULATION HEIGHTS UPTO G+1. BUILDING HEIGHTS ARE
UPTO G+4.

STRUCTURAL STRENGTH AVERAGE HEIGHT OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN BUILDINGS

 BUILT & DESIGNED BY CONTRACTORS WITHOUT P
RIOR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OR APPROVAL OF TH
E AUTHORITIES & COST CUTTING TECHNIQUES , T
HESE BUILDINGS CAN BE TERMED STRUCTURALLY
UNSAFE.
BUILDINGS  THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO BUILDINGS IS VERY
 THE AVERAGE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDINGS LIES BETWEE LESS (1 M) ON THE PEDESTRIAN ROADS
N 10 M TO 15 M. SOME OF THE STRUCTURES ARE  WHEREAS THE DISTANCE IS QUITE LARGE ON
SINGLE STOREYED ALSO. VEHICULAR ROADS.

INFERENCE
 URBAN GEOMETRY OF KOTLA MUBARAKPUR IS COMPOSED
OF NARROW STREETS FLANKED WITH SHOPS ON EITHER SIDES & RESIDENCES UPSTAIRS IS A COMMON SITE.
 IT IS AN UNPLANNED MUSHROOM GROWTH WITH HETEROGENEOUS CHARACTERISTICS.

HOUSING TYPOLOGY
WATER SUPPLY
 WATER IS SUPPLIED TWO TIMES IN A DAY, MORNING AND EVENING,
THROGH SUPPLY LINES.
 THE RESIDENTS COMPLAINED THATCTHE SUPPLY WATER IS NOT FIT FOR
DRINKUNG HENCE PEOPLE HAVE INSTALLED WATER PURIFIERS.
 THE COMMUNITY ALSO CONSISTS OF PRIVATE WATER PLANTS WHICH
SUPPLY WATER TO HOUSES IN CANS.
ELECTRICITY
 THERE IS A 24 HOUR ELECTRICAL SUPPLY IN KOTLA MUBARAKPUR, BUT
PEOPLE MENTIONED ABOUT SMALL POWER CUTS
 ELECTIRCITY IS SUPPLIED BY THE BSES.C
 EACH AND EVERY HOUSEHOLDS CONSISTS OF ITS OWN PRIVATE METER.
 WIRES RUN ALONG THE STREETS IN A HAPHAZARD WAY, ALSO
TRANSFORMERS ARE INSTALLED ALONG THE STREETS.
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
GARBAGE
 THERE IS NO PROPER AREA WHICH IS DEFINED FOR DUMPING THE GARBGE.
 PEOPLE OFTEN DUMP GARBAGE INFRONT OF THEIR HOUSES ON THE STREETS.
 EVERY MORNING A MCD TRUCK COMES AND TO COLLECT ALL THE GARBAGE ON
THE STREETS.
 THE DUMPING OF GARBAGE ON THE STREETS CREATES A VERY UNHYGENIC
CONDITION FOR THE PEOPLE LIVING.
SEWAGE AND DRAINAGE
 KOTLA MUBARAKPUR CONSISTS OF A PROPER SEWERAGE SYSTEM BUT DUE TO
INCREASE IN THE POPULATION THE LOAD ON THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM
INCREASES WHICH RESULTS IN CHOKING.
 WHENEVER CHOKING OCCURS THE GENERAL SCRETARY OF THE AREA
COMPLAINS TO THE MCD AND THEN THE MCD OFFICIALS COME TO CLEAR THE
BLOCKAGE.
EDUCATION
 THE VILLAGE OF KOTLA MUBARAKPUR CONSISTS OF FOUR GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS, ALL OF THEM ARE IN WORKING CONDITION
 RECENTLY ONE OF THE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CONVERTED INTO AN E-
SCHOOL.
 THE SCHOOLS ARE TILL PRIMARY ONLY, THERE ARE NO SECONDARY
SCHOOLS.
OTHER PUBLIC SPACES
 THE OPEN AND GREEN SPACES IN KOTLA MUBARAKPUR ARE NOT SUFFICIENT
TO CATER THE POPULATION AND ARE ILL-MAINTAINED.
 THERE ARE NO FUNCTIONAL PARKS OR OPEN RECREATIONAL SPACE FOR PUBLI
C IN THE LOCALITY.

HEALTH CARE FACILITES PUBLIC TOILET FACILITY

 NO HOSPITALS OR GOVERNMENTS CLINICS ARE PROVIDED IN THE VILLAGE,
THE NEAREST HOSPITAL BEING AIIMS.
 THE RESIDENTS COMMONLY USE AIIMSTHE COMMERCIAL AREA CONSISTS OF
SOME SMALL PRIVATE CLINICS.
 THERE WERE FIVE PUBLIC TOILETS WHICH WERE CONSTRUCTED BY THE
GOVERNMENT BUT THEY WERE BROKEN DOWN AND THE LAND WAS GIVEN TO
VENDORS AND OTHER PEOPLE ON RENTAL BASIS ILLEGALLY.
 RECENTLY MEENAKSHI LEKHI HAS PASSED THE CONTRUCTION OF TWO PUBLIC
TOILETS IN THE LOCALITY.

SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
 LOCATION ISSUES
 SURROUNDED BY WELL DEVELOPED COLONIES
 POPULATION PRESSURE AND THUS HAPHAZARD CONSTRUCTION

DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES
 LOW LITERACY RATE: LESS AWARENESS
 HIGHER POPULATION DENSITY
 LARGER FAMILY SIZES: LESSER FLOOR AREA/PERSON

LEGAL ISSUES
 UNCERTAIN PROPERTY TAXES
 ILLEGAL ENCROACHMENTS
 LAND DEALS UNACCOUNTED

INFRASTRUCTURAL ISSUES
 LACK OF BASIC CIVIC AMENITIES
 STRUCTURAL WEAKNESSES
 NARROWING LANES
 POOR DRAINAGE AND SEWAGE CONDITIONS

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
 REDUCED GREEN AND OPEN SPACES
 UNPROTECTED HERITAGE AREAS
 UNORGANIZED WASTE DISPOSAL

URBAN ISSUES