UP Government Approves 56,662-Acre Land Acquisition for BIDA Greenfield Industrial City

What was decided

Chairing a high-level review meeting on 29 October 2025, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath approved a major expansion of the land-acquisition programme for the Bundelkhand Industrial Development Authority (BIDA). Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the development of an airport, railway station, and multimodal logistics park within the Bundelkhand Industrial Development Authority (BIDA) area to accelerate regional industrial growth and connectivity. Reporting on the meeting, officials confirmed the scale of the revised acquisition target: officials informed that 56,662 acres had been approved for BIDA's formation, of which 22,028 acres had already been acquired.

News coverage that followed the meeting, published from 3 November 2025, described this as a formal government approval. The Uttar Pradesh government has approved the acquisition of 56,600 acres of land for the large-scale industrial development of the Bundelkhand region, marking a major step in the state's plan to transform the area into a manufacturing powerhouse. This is a substantial upward revision: BIDA's original 2024 board decision had targeted only 35,000 acres of land worth more than Rs 6,000 crore, spanning 33 revenue villages in the Jhansi district.

Operative details: areas, phasing and location

As of the October 2025 meeting, acquisition progress stood at roughly 40 per cent of the newly approved target. According to a senior official, around 22,000 acres, or nearly 40 per cent of the identified land, has already been acquired by the Bundelkhand Industrial Development Authority (BIDA), the nodal agency spearheading the project. A substantial portion of this land lies within Jhansi district, the economic centre of Bundelkhand.

Subsequent reporting broke the 56,662-acre target into two phases. In total, BIDA plans to acquire 56,662 acres across 33 villages in two phases, with the remaining 21,364 acres slated for acquisition in the second phase. Separately, the BIDA Master Plan 2045 itself covers a larger notified planning boundary than the acquisition programme: The BIDA Master Plan 2045 covers 253.33 km2 (97.81 sq mi), equivalent to 62,599.20 acres, across 33 villages in Jhansi tehsil. This total planning area is distinct from the 56,662 acres approved for phased land acquisition and development.

Within the planning area, land use has been allocated by category. Under the BIDA Master Plan 2045, 253 sq km of land has been designated for specific uses: Industrial (35.8 per cent), residential (15.2 per cent), mixed-use (5.1 per cent), commercial (1.5 per cent), and green space (10.6 per cent).

Infrastructure directives issued at the meeting

Beyond the acreage decision, the Chief Minister ordered specific connectivity and logistics projects. Chairing a high-level review meeting on 29 October, the Chief Minister instructed that the Agra–Gwalior Greenfield Expressway be extended up to BIDA and Jhansi, and asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to hold consultations on the proposal. He also called for swift progress on the fourth Delhi–Chennai railway line, directing the construction of a railway station within the BIDA zone and the development of a Delhi–Nagpur Industrial Corridor node in the same area.

Additional connectivity items were flagged as already underway. Connectivity projects linking BIDA with NH-27 and NH-44 are nearing completion, while proposals for an IT park, bus depot, truck terminal, and logistics facilities are also in the pipeline. The Chief Minister also linked the acreage decision to a wider positioning goal for the authority: The state envisions BIDA as a "future investment magnet" modelled on Noida and Greater Noida.

Implementation timeline and administrative measures

The meeting set a hard deadline for completing the expanded acquisition and ordered staffing and process reforms. Adityanath instructed that the remaining land acquisition be completed within six months and that BIDA be staffed with adequate personnel to manage the process efficiently. Additional staffing measures were also directed. He directed that all land acquisition be completed within six months and ordered the immediate deployment of additional registry and revenue staff. The Chief Minister also instructed that qualified engineers, town planners, and architects be appointed within 15 days to accelerate project execution.

To manage the acquisition process transparently, BIDA introduced a digital tracking system around the same period. To ensure transparency, BIDA has introduced a digital software system that oversees every stage of land acquisition—from farmer consent to payment—and will soon launch a dedicated call centre for farmers.

Practical effect and what followed

The October 2025 decision effectively locked in a near-60,000-acre acquisition programme as BIDA's operative target, superseding the original 35,000-acre first-phase plan while leaving the broader 62,599-acre Master Plan 2045 boundary as the long-term planning envelope. It also converted several previously informal infrastructure asks (airport, IT park, logistics park) into directives with named implementing agencies (NHAI, Indian Railways) and timelines.

Later developments show the acquisition drive continuing on this expanded basis. Reporting from February 2026 described a further acceleration, and by March 2026 the acquisition of 24,201 acres of land amounts to more than 68 per cent of the total 35,298 acres targeted in the first phase by BIDA. Separately, the Master Plan 2045 project received a formal environmental milestone: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, has officially granted environmental clearance to the 'Greenfield Industrial City (BIDA Master Plan-2045)' project of the Bundelkhand Industrial Development Authority (BIDA), Jhansi. These are distinct, later regulatory steps and should not be read as part of the 29 October/3 November 2025 acquisition-acreage decision itself.