NCR Full Form

The long form of NCR is the National Capital Region. It is a metropolitan area in India that comprises the entire territory of Delhi and several districts and urban areas of neighbouring states - Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The National Capital Region (NCR ka full form) is a planning region that is centred upon the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. The National Capital Region and the associated NCR Planning Board was created in the year 1985. The board was created with the purpose of planning the development of the region and to progress harmonized policies for the control of land-uses and the development of infrastructure of the entire region. The prominent cities of the NCR include Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Noida and Gurugram (Gurgaon). 

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NCR: Brief Details

• Country: India

• States & UT: Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh

• Major Cities: New Delhi, Gaziabad, Faridabad, Gurugram, Noida

• Formed: 1985

• Regional Authority: National Capital Region Planning Board

• Area: 54,984 km2 (21,229 sq mi)

• Population (As per 2011 census): 46,069,000

• Population Density: 840/km2 (2,200/sq mi)

NCR History

The National Capital Region (Delhi NCR ka full form) and its planning board were created under the NCR Planning Board Act of 1985. The act defined the NCR as the whole of Delhi; Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonipat, Rohtak and the Rewari tehsil then in Mahendragarh district of Haryana; Bulandshahr, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut and Ghaziabad of Uttar Pradesh and Alwar district of Rajasthan. The boundary of the National Capital Region (NCR full form) in the year 1985 was 34,144 square kilometres (13,183 sq mi).

Before the formation of current day NCR, the area that was described in the 1962 master plan of Delhi was called Delhi Metropolitan Area (DMA). The master plan defined the Delhi Metropolitan Area as comprising the National Capital Territory and the towns of Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Ballabhgarh, Gurugram (Gurgaon), Bahadurgarh and Loni and a few rural areas (which had a population of less than 2.1 million). The following "Master Plan for Delhi '', which was approved in August 1990, Noida, Bahadurgarh and the then-proposed township of Kundli was added to the DMA. This consequently covered an area of 3,182 km2. 

In the year 1997, a new district, Gautam Budh Nagar was formed out of the existing National Capital Region (NCR full meaning) districts of Ghaziabad and Bulandshahr. The new districts headquarter was in the city of Noida. Also, Baghpat district was created from Baghpat tehsil of Meerut district in the same year. 

In 2013 July, the NCR was expanded and three more districts were included - Bhiwani and Mahendragarh from Haryana, and Bharatpur from Rajasthan. With this, the total districts of the NCR became 19 and the area increase by 34%, i.e, a total of 45,887 km2. In 2016, Charkhi Dadri district and Bhiwani district of Haryana were separated. 

On the 9th of June, 2015, the government of India approved the inclusion of three more districts in the NCR -  Jind, Panipat, Karnal in the state of Haryana and Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh making the total area 50,566 km2. In December 2017, the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh was added to the NCR. Today, i.e, in 2021, there are a total of 24 districts in the NCR, excluding the 11 districts of Delhi.

NCR: Proposed Extensions

On the 9th of January, 2018, the Uttar Pradesh government formally proposed to extend the National Capital Region (long form of NCR) and cover up the districts of Aligarh, Bijnor, Hathras and Mathura. They have also proposed to include the district of Agra to be included in the NCR. Punjab wants to include Patiala and Mohali in the NCR. Rajasthan’s Bhadra is included in the future extension plan of the National Capital Region.

NCR: The Districts

The National Capital Region, India comprises 24 districts from the states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, and the whole National Capital Territory of Delhi. The districts along with their area and population are:

Central National Capital Region

The Delhi Metropolitan Area (DMA), including Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Kundli and Sonipat constitutes the 2001 Regional Plan. The new version of the plan, i.e, the 2021 Regional Plan renamed the area of DMA as the Central National Capital Region (CNCR). It covers around 2,000 km2 in addition to the 1,483 km2 area of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The 2021 Regional Plan estimated that the 2001 population of CNCR outside Delhi was 2.8 million while the population of Delhi was 13.8 million resulting in a total population of the CNCR region as of 16.6 million. In 2016, the total population expanded from 25.7 to 26.5 million people.