HSIIDC Awards ₹940-Crore Trunk Infrastructure Tender for Global City Phase 1

What was decided

Officials confirmed on a Sunday in late September 2023 that HSIIDC — the wholly state-owned Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation — had awarded a construction contract for the first phase of the Global City project. The Haryana state industrial and infrastructure development corporation awarded the tender of ₹940 crore for building the road, electricity, water supply, and other infrastructure for phase one of the project, which will be developed over 570 acres, officials with knowledge of the development said on Sunday.

According to HSIIDC officials, work on the project will begin within the next two to three months, and with the award of the tender for infrastructure works, the corporation has also called for the auction of four plots of land in Global City for mixed land use, with the auction to take place in December of that year.

Operative details: scope, budget and timeline

HSIIDC Managing Director Yash Garg set out the terms on record. Infrastructure for the first phase would be developed at a cost of ₹940 crore, with a completion date of October 2026, and the contractor would build world-class infrastructure such as roads, an internal mass transit system, and a utility tunnel for common facilities to provide residents and visitors with a global experience.

The road network specified in the contractor's mandate had defined widths: the Global City would have roads of 60 metres width for traffic within the city, 45-metre-wide sub-arterial roads, and adequate space for primary and secondary roads and streets.

The common utility tunnel was designed to remove the need for repeated road-digging. The tunnel would accommodate utilities such as potable water, recycled water, electrical distribution, telecom/data, solid waste management and firefighting systems, with Garg noting there would be no need to dig roads for facility expansion or maintenance.

Subsequent reporting on the same Phase 1 scope (587 acres) has detailed additional elements built out under this trunk-infrastructure programme: thirteen kilometres of interior roads, an 82-acre landscape, a 26-kilometer storm water drain network, an 11.96-kilometer potable water network, a 12-kilometer recycled water pipeline, and a 10-kilometer utility tunnel.

Land auction announced alongside the tender

The infrastructure award was bundled with a separate land-monetisation decision. Along with the tender award, HSIIDC announced an auction of four large parcels of land (approximately 170 acres in total) for commercial and residential development in the 1,000-acre mixed-land-use city.

HSIIDC set out a process ahead of the sale: the auction was to take place in December, with a pre-bid meeting with bidders in Gurugram in October.

Practical effect

The tender award converted Global City from a planning-stage project into an active construction site. The contractor took over the project site once the tender was awarded. HSIIDC's ownership of the operating and maintenance liability was also fixed at this stage: HSIIDC committed to manage and maintain the Gurgaon Global City project at no extra expense to allottees until December 31, 2033, after which maintenance fees would be collected from allottees based on actual operation and maintenance costs.

The state government also backed the corporation's balance sheet around the same period: HSIIDC's operating capital ceiling was raised by ₹1,500 crore by the government to support this and other infrastructure programmes.

Status as of early-mid 2026: construction is roughly 20% complete, with roads, drainage, and a 350-million-litre water reservoir underway, and Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has officially confirmed a December 2026 target for Phase 1 completion — a slippage of about two months from the October 2026 date given at the time of the award.

Data note: verifying the contract value

One widely syndicated report states the contract value as a substantial contract worth ?7,940 crore for the construction of essential infrastructure — a figure this record cannot corroborate. Every other contemporaneous account of the same award, including the on-record quote from HSIIDC Managing Director Yash Garg, gives the figure as ₹940 crore, matching the same scope, the same October 2026 completion date and the same 570/587-acre Phase 1 footprint. Multiple independent outlets repeat this ₹940 crore figure through 2024–2026 reporting on Phase 1 progress. This page therefore treats ₹940 crore as the verified contract value and flags the ₹7,940 crore figure as an apparent transcription or currency-symbol encoding error in one source, rather than a confirmed alternative figure.