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Dharuhera, sonepat, Baghpat, Meerut & Bhiwadi have great potential, but they have some way to go befor they can tempt the pampered Delhites.
With the metros getting saturated where development is concerned and the high home loan rates, property in Tier-I cities is going beyond the reach of many people.
For those looking at alternate options the obvious choice will be the smaller cities near Delhi.

So we have places like Sonepat, Dharuhera Baghpat, Bhiwadi and Meerut, but one wonders how ready the people of Delhi to move in here are. One does get used to a certain kind of lifestyle in the Capital. And though these towns definitely have potential for the fu ture, they have quite a distance to go before they come up with good infrastructure that's somewhat close to Delhi standards.

"The problem with development in North India is that of connectivity – a must if people have to look at options out of Delhi. Do that and no one will want to clog the Capital? People work in London but they stay in the countryside, because they have been provided good infrastructure and connectivity. The Metro will do a lot of good to Ghaziabad and Noida but such public transport will have to be made available in other nearby cities. Roads, sewerage system, better law and order are some of the needs that have to ad dressed immediately if we want people to go and live there," says Sanjeev Sivastava, Managing Director, Assotech Limited.

So, while we give you the lowdown on what makes these towns promising zones of the future, we also visit the places to give you a view of what's happening here now.