Delhi Urban Art Commission Invites Application for Assistant Recruitment 2022

The Delhi Urban Art Commission was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1973 to "advise the Government of India in the matter of preserving, developing and maintaining the aesthetic quality of urban and environmental design within Delhi and to provide advice and guidance to any local body in respect of any project of building operations or engineering operations or any development proposal which affects or is like to affect the skyline or the aesthetic quality of the surroundings or any public amenity provided therein" The area of urban Delhi has expanded and it has become more densely built in the years since the DUAC was constituted. This gives even greater relevance to the injunctions in the original mandate. Ecology and heritage are more pressing concerns now, the difficulties of seeing the city as a whole in a situation where there are many decision- making bodies is more evident than before, and there is urgent need to have a vision for the future of the city's constituent elements.

If in the 1970s the predominant concern was about uncontrolled high-rise development, in the 1980s issues linked with Asian Games in the 1990s the building of Dwarka and the freezing of the New Delhi Bungalow area, this decade's main concerns are about four issues - the threats to the remaining oases of open spaces, riverine and forest, the need to improve the quality of life in historic precincts, the need to ensure that dilapidated areas are 'redeveloped' elegantly, and to find ways in which traffic networks can work efficiently but with a humane quality. The DUAC took significant initiative to highlight city-level issues in an exhibition ‘Imagining Delhi’.