Bharat Future City Master Plan: Area, Phases, Land Use and Targets

Planning horizon and who is in charge

Bharat Future City sits under the Future City Development Authority (FCDA), a special development authority established via Telangana Cabinet order in March 2025 for the Bharat Future City project. The authority's own master plan is formally named the Bharat Future City Comprehensive Master Plan–2047, meaning it is meant to guide land use and infrastructure out to the year 2047, in step with the state's broader growth agenda.

Governance runs through a board rather than a single planning office: the Chief Minister is Chairman, the Minister of Municipal Affairs is Vice Chairman, and the Chief Secretary, Special Chief Secretaries and district officials sit as members, with a dedicated FCDA Commissioner running day-to-day operations. The government has sanctioned 36 posts, appointed IAS officer K. Shashanka as first FCDA commissioner, and fully established the planning wing.

Total planned area vs. the area targeted for near-term development — these are not the same thing

It is important to separate three different area figures that are often used interchangeably in news coverage:

• Full FCDA jurisdiction: covering approximately 765.28 square kilometers and integrating 74 gram panchayats across 56 revenue villages in seven mandals in the Ranga Reddy district: Amangal, Ibrahimpatnam, Kandukur, Kadthal, Maheshwaram, Manchal, and Yacharam. One government-sourced report puts this jurisdiction at around 1.80 lakh acres of land — a figure that is roughly 5% smaller than the 765.28 sq km number when converted to acres, an inconsistency that has not been reconciled in public reporting as of July 2026.
• Core "Bharat Future City" zone: the actual city being built first, covering 30,000 acres between the Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar National Highways.
• Priority/DPR-detailed area: within that core, the core phase of Bharat Future City will span approximately 30,000 acres, with the DPR specifically detailing zoning plans for 15,000 acres. A separate report described this priority zone as roughly 13,000 acres, so the exact figure varies by source and date.

On land status, officials said about 15,000 acres have already been acquired by the government, while another 15,000 acres of forest area is proposed for eco-tourism projects, including a night safari and parks, within the wider FCDA jurisdiction. A real-estate industry report from April 2026 claimed FCDA is fully operational, with land acquisition largely complete — around 15,000 acres secured in the core 30,000-acre zone; this figure has not been independently confirmed by an official government source and should be treated as an industry estimate, not a notified fact.

None of these figures should be read as "area developed" — as of July 2026, Bharat Future City remains almost entirely at the land-assembly, road-building and plan-preparation stage, not the built-out stage.

Land-use split (sector-wise allocation within the core zone)

A sector-wise breakdown of the core zone has been reported via industry press citing ETRealty, following the appointment of DP Architects: a life sciences hub (4,000 acres), an electric vehicle and energy park (1,976 acres), an electronics and advanced manufacturing zone (2,177 acres), a residential zone (2,477 acres), data centre hub (313 acres), education and university zone (255 acres), an AI city (403 acres), and a health city (594 acres). Together these named sectors total roughly 12,195 acres — about 41% of the 30,000-acre core — with the remainder not yet itemised by sector in public reporting (likely to include roads, green/eco buffers and land still to be allocated). Separately, a large eco-tourism/forest allocation is planned: a proposed 15,000-acre forest area dedicated to eco-tourism, including a night safari and expansive public parks, though it is unclear from public sources whether this sits inside or outside the 30,000-acre core figure. Because these numbers come from pre-master-plan tender-stage reporting, treat them as indicative sector allocations rather than a finalised, notified land-use plan.

Phases: land, plan and infrastructure

Bharat Future City is progressing on two parallel tracks — planning/zoning phases and physical infrastructure phases:

• Jurisdiction notified (March 2025): FCDA created covering the full 765.28 sq km / 56-village area.
• Core zone defined (2025): the 30,000-acre core between the Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar highways identified as the priority development footprint.
• DPR and priority zoning (from ~December 2025): the Telangana state government roped in Singapore-based consultancy Surbana Jurong to prepare the detailed project report for the Bharat Future City project, with the core phase spanning 30,000 acres and 15,000 acres dedicated to functional zones including education, health, IT, AI, sports and film-city facilities.
• Comprehensive Master Plan-2047 (tendered February 2026, consultant appointed June 2026): the initial planning exercise focuses on around 30,000 acres, of which nearly 13,000 acres have been identified as the priority development zone; DP Architects emerged as the lowest bidder among six participants in the tender process and is expected to submit the master plan within nine months of appointment.

On physical infrastructure, the flagship road link is being built in two funded stages: 300-feet-wide Greenfield Roads are under construction, with Phase 1 a 19.2 km road at ₹1,665 crores and Phase 2 a 22.30 km road at ₹2,365 crores. Together these form the Ratan Tata Road / Greenfield Radial Road-1, described elsewhere as a 41.5 km expressway connecting the ORR at Raviryal to the RRR at Amangal.

Population and employment targets

No official, government-published population or employment target for Bharat Future City has surfaced in current reporting. Real-estate industry sources cite an unofficial figure of a 25–30 lakh (2.5–3 million) resident target population for the wider project, but this appears in promotional/industry blogs rather than in an FCDA or state government release, so it should be treated as an estimate, not a confirmed planning figure.

On jobs, official statements have so far spoken in terms of target sectors rather than headcount: the development plan proposes designated zones for sectors including medicine and research, industries, entertainment, eco-tourism, artificial intelligence, electric vehicle manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and life sciences. No specific job-creation number tied to a target year has been published by FCDA or the Telangana government as of July 2026.

Planners and consultants

Two Singapore-based firms are involved at different stages of planning:

• Surbana Jurong — engaged around December 2025 to prepare the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the 30,000-acre core zone, with the DPR outlining the zoning of various clusters across 15,000 acres, based on which the state government will allocate land for education, health, IT, AI, sports, film city facilities, and more.
• DP Architects — appointed around June 2026 as the lead consultant for the full statutory Comprehensive Master Plan-2047 covering the entire FCDA jurisdiction, after emerging as the lowest bidder among six firms that participated in the global tender process.

Separately, the government has invited global tenders seeking proposals for the Bharat Future City Comprehensive Master Plan–2047 in February 2026, and 12 companies submitted applications in response to the tender notification before the field was narrowed to six and then to DP Architects.

Where to find official plan documents

As of July 2026, the Comprehensive Master Plan-2047 itself has not been published in final form — it was still under preparation by the appointed consultant, with submission expected roughly nine months after the June 2026 appointment. The founding Government Order (G.O.) that created FCDA, its board composition and jurisdiction is available as a scanned document via third-party mirrors (see sources below); readers should verify any land-use, zoning or approval question directly against FCDA's own notifications rather than relying on real-estate blogs, which frequently repeat unverified figures. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) website is a useful reference for the wider regional master-planning context in which FCDA's 56 villages previously sat before transfer to the new authority.