What is Dilli Haat
India's craft encompass a rich heritage of skills, motifs, designs, identities and expression. It is by far the largest living tradition in the world. Dilli Haat is a unique space that brings India's old tradition of open market places to contemporary Delhi. It offers a Kaleidoscope of crafts people and glimpse of the varying traditions in the cultural life of India through regional cuisines and cultural events.

Dilli Haat is a testimony to the fact that despite modernity and its aggressive onslaught, many traditional crafts skills have survived and have evolved new parameters in aesthetic and commercial value.
The first Dilli Haat was established by DTTDC in 1994 as a permanent market place for impermanent people. It has provided a warm and welcoming environment for India's craft persons to sell their products to bring the crafts persons directly in contact with clientele from all over the world.

Pitampura Food and Crafts Bazaar
Dilli Haat Pitampura is envisaged in as well planned space with provisions for cultural activity, designed for demonstration and exhibition of traditional craft with eateries and shops to generate public activity in the area. Special efforts has been made to make the Haat eco friendly by recycling the sewage after treating to nake it usuable for flushing and irrigation.
The Pitampura Dilli Haat is being developed in an area of 7.2 acres.

The Haat will have:
1. A multi - purpose pavilion for crafts persons with a capacity of 100 display exhibit.
2. Food kiosks with capacity of 400 persons in the food court.
3. Restaurant with seating capacity of 60 persons at ground floor(Second Floor being added).
4. Double storeyed dormitory for craftsmen with capacity of 96 beds.
5. Amphitheatre with capacity of 450 persons.
6. Parking facilities of 232 cars and 210 two wheelers in basement.
7. Art gallery.
8. Spice market.
9. Sculpture court and large landscape greens.
10. Adequate internal and external lighting keeping the Haat illuminated.
11. A number of sculptures/art works to be displayed at strategic locations.
12. Conference room (second floor being added).

Special Features
1. A Green Roof with specialized soil bed technology has been developed in the plaza area as a special eco-friendly feature.
2. STP with CAACO Technology for treating sewage water and recycling it for irrigation as well as flushing has been providing.
3. Landscaping and Horticulture work in the entire Haat to green it and to enhance its appeal. Appropriate irrigation system provided all over the Haat.
4. The ground water available has very high TDS levels and so the same has been treated at two levels - first by nanfiltration to produce water for general consumption and thereafter, for the limited purpose of drinking water, treating part quantity with R.O. filtration technique.
5. The entire Haat is disabled friendly and accessible through ramps. Disabled friendly toilets have also been provided.
6. A dedicated electric substation and aesthetically pleasing external lightening scheme has been provided in the Haat.