DDA decided to declare Nehru Place a `No Hawking Zone' . It will also take up construction of 10,000 houses for the poor under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The Delhi Development Authority on Monday passed the draft zonal plans for Yamuna river bed (zone"O") and Rohini area (zone "P-II") in a meeting of the authority here. It was also decided to declare Nehru Place a "No Hawking Zone". It will also take up construction of 10,000 houses for the poor out of a target of more than 42,000 houses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. In the meeting chaired by DDA chairman, Delhi lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna, the authority passed the plan for zone "O" after incorporating the objections and suggestions made during the hearing by DDA's board of inquiry. The plan envisages eight sub-zones for the Yamuna river bed that would have biodiversity parks, botanical parks and ghats. The area will not have any permanent or semi-permanent construction. The cricket and football stadiums, proposed earlier, no longer figure in the plan. The plan also envisages water supply augmentation, pollution abatement and ecofriendly development. In Rohini area, at least 1,924 hectares has been declared a green belt out of a total of 8,194 hectares. The remaining part will be used for various purposes. The zone will have 16 community centres, four district centres, a wholesale trade market, a wholesale fruit and vegetable market apart from other things. The two zonal plans are being prepared in conformation with the Master Plan for Delhi2021. The zonal plans of other areas have already been passed. These plans will now be sent to the ministry of Urban Development. Meanwhile, the Delhi government will acquire more lands for low-cost housing project at the cost of Rs 108 crores. The Delhi Cabinet in its meeting on Monday also decided to begin the allotment of the low-cost housing flats soon. The Cabinet also decided to set up a round the clock medical unit for mentally-challenged inmates at Asha Kiran Complex run by the social welfare department at Rohini. Sources said that the Delhi government would soon begin alloting the low-cost flats to the slum-dwellers through lottery of the apllications recieved by the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation.