Global City Gurugram: Land Acquisition, Compensation and Current Status

Acquisition model: state land bank, not fresh farmer acquisition

Global City Gurugram is different from a typical greenfield land-acquisition project. The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) already holds the land parcel and is releasing it to the market in tranches rather than issuing fresh acquisition notices to farmers. HSIIDC has been releasing land in phases using structured e-auctions, and the developers bidding for the plots are the ones who are proposing mixed-use development ranging from a few acres up to a much larger parcel of land. HSIIDC has described itself as a 100% State owned Infrastructure Development agency of the Govt. of Haryana developing the project.

This is a different mechanism from the compensation-based Land Acquisition Act process HSIIDC has used elsewhere in Gurugram (for example at IMT Manesar), and also different from the newer "direct purchase" policy Haryana has approved for other infrastructure projects. That policy, approved separately for Gurugram Metro land, works through a land acquisition committee composed of 11 officials under the chairmanship of the Gurugram deputy commissioner, which carries out direct negotiations with land owners for purchase of land. No public reporting found so far applies that mechanism specifically to Global City's own footprint.

Compensation and current plot rates

Because HSIIDC already controls the Global City land, published rate data relates to the price developers pay HSIIDC for plots at e-auction, not per-acre farmer compensation. In the first tranche of e-auctions, held in late 2023, HSIIDC put four mixed-use parcels on the block: parcels measuring 86.05 and 23.76 acres with 65% commercial and 35% residential use, and a 58.11-acre plot with 50-50 commercial and residential development. Pricing for that round was ₹1,47,500 per square metre for the 86.05-acre plot, ₹1,28,000 per square metre for the 23.76-acre plot, and ₹1,21,000 per square metre for the 58.11-acre parcel, with ₹56,500 per square metre for a 4.854-acre plot reserved for a school.

Separately, general land values across Gurugram have been rising: the state hiked circle rates by 10 to 30 per cent effective December 1, 2024, which affects statutory compensation benchmarks for any future acquisition in the district, though this circle-rate move was not specific to Global City.

Villages and district coverage

Global City sits entirely within Gurugram district, spread across Sectors 36, 36B, 37, 37A, and 37B along the Dwarka Expressway. Current reporting and HSIIDC's own project materials do not publish a village-wise breakdown or a count of affected revenue villages for this specific 1,000-1,080-acre parcel, unlike older HSIIDC projects such as IMT Manesar, where village names and acreages are on record. Readers should treat any village-level attribution for Global City itself as unverified until HSIIDC or the district administration releases such a list.

For context on how HSIIDC land acquisition disputes have played out elsewhere in the same district, at IMT Manesar the authority acquired 1,810 acres of land in 2011 at just Rs 55 to 90 lakh per acre from farmers of Kasan, Mokalwas, Sehrawan and other adjoining villages, and separately notices for acquisition of 1,810 acres of land in Kasan, Khoh, Kukdaula and Sahrawan villages were issued in 2010. These are distinct HSIIDC land actions, not part of the Global City footprint.

Budget and investment scale

The project's headline investment figure, cited by HSIIDC and state officials at launch, put the first 250 acres of land for the proposed development up for auction by the end of November 2023, with an investment potential of approximately $15 billion or Rs 1,00,000 crore. For Phase 1 specifically, the state awarded a contract for trunk infrastructure — building roads, electricity, water supply, and other infrastructure on 587 acres by December 2026, at a cost of ₹940 crore. Alongside this, the government increased HSIIDC's working capital limit by ₹1,500 crore to support execution.

Disputes and farmer negotiations

No dispute, protest, or farmer-negotiation report specific to Global City's own 1,000-1,080 acre parcel has surfaced in current coverage as of August 2026. This is consistent with the land being an existing HSIIDC-held asset that is being auctioned to developers rather than newly acquired from cultivators.

By contrast, HSIIDC's other Gurugram-area land acquisitions have a long history of disputes. At IMT Manesar, farmers said the award of compensation was scheduled to be announced on August 16 years after acquisition notices, and protests over compensation escalated to the point where protesters carrying national flags blocked the busy highway at Pachgaon Chowk, and police took around 80 farmers into custody. In the same broad IMT Manesar Phase 1 case, farmers won successive enhancements — from an original compensation amount of Rs 75 lakh per acre fixed in 2002-03, up through court-ordered increases, before the Supreme Court ordered the compensation amount to be reversed in a time-bound manner till June 30, 2019 after further litigation. These cases illustrate the kind of friction that has accompanied HSIIDC land actions in the district, even though they are separate from Global City.

Current stage, as of August 2026

As of mid-2026, Global City is in active construction on its first phase rather than in a land-acquisition dispute stage. Reports describe construction as roughly 20% complete with roads, drainage, and a 350-million-litre water reservoir underway in early 2026. Officials have said Phase 1 will be completed by year-end 2026, with no reported delays as of the latest updates, while HSIIDC will operate and maintain the Global City until 2033, with maintenance charges to be recovered from allottees after that.

On the monetisation side, HSIIDC continues to release land through auctions: HSIIDC is currently auctioning off the plots in tranches, and in June 2026 it emerged that HSIIDC has identified a 6.7-acre plot within the proposed 1,000-acre Global City development where a mixed-use tower between 620 metres and 700 metres in height is being planned — a proposal still at an early identification stage rather than a confirmed, funded project.