20/08/2016
History
Delhi and its urban region have been given the special status of National Capital Region (NCR) under the Constitution of India's 69th Amendment Act of 1991.
In July 2013, NCR was expanded to include three more districts, Bhiwani, and Mahendragarh in the state of Haryana, as well as Bharatpur in the state of Rajasthan. This brought the number of districts in NCR to 19, with the total NCR area increasing 34% to 46,208 km2.
Before July 2013, National Capital Region (NCR) had a total area of 34,144 km2 spanning over 16 districts in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan, together with the National Capital Territory of Delhi, with the Nation Capital as its core. After the addition of three more districts (Bhiwani, Mahendragarh and Bharatpur) - NCR expanded to 19 districts having a total area of 46,208 km2. On 9 June 2015, Government of India approved the inclusion of three more districts in NCR - Jind and Karnal in the state of Haryana and Muzaffarnagar in U.P. There are now a total of 22 districts (plus Delhi NCT) within NCR,covering a total area of 58,332 km2.
The four constituent Sub-Regions of NCR are as follows:
The Haryana Sub-Region comprises thirteen districts: Bhiwani, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Jind, Karnal, Mewat, Mahendragarh (Narnaul), Panipat, Palwal, Rewari, Rohtak and Sonepat.
The Uttar Pradesh Sub-Region comprises seven districts: Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Hapur, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar.
The Rajasthan Sub-Region comprises two districts: Alwar and Bharatpur
Delhi, which constitutes about 2.9% of the land area of the Region.
Uttar Pradesh is pushing to have the districts of Agra, Aligarh and Mathura included in the NCR.