Gurgaon International City (GIC) Manesar — Land Acquisition & Licensing Status

How the land was acquired: licensing, not government acquisition

Unlike government-led planned cities that use land pooling or the Right to Fair Compensation Act (2013) with notified per-acre rates, GIC Manesar sits on land that the developer says it privately purchased and then licensed for development under Haryana's town-planning regime. The project's own disclosures describe it as "an industrial plotted colony, developed and promoted by M/s M3M India Infrastructure Private Limited...on a licenced land."

"Gurgaon International City" is an industrial plotted colony, developed and promoted by M/s M3M India Infrastructure Private Limited ("Promoter"), on a licenced land with area admeasuring 56.57252 Hectares (139.79375 Acres) situated in the revenue estate village of Bas Haria & Jhund Sarai, Abad, Sector-M9, M10 & M11, Manesar, Gurugram, Haryana. Approval for which was granted by DTCP vide Memo No. LC-5390/JE(SK)2025/35500 dated 09.09.2025 with Licence no. 168 of 2025 dated 08.09.2025.

A separate zoning-plan approval preceded the licence: the Department of Town & Country Planning, Haryana has granted the Zoning Plan vide Memo No. DTCP 11473 dated 29.09.2025. The project was then registered with the regulator: The Project is duly registered with Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority vide Regn. No. RC/REP/HARERA/GGM/991/723/2025/94 dated 16.10.2025.

This means the standard consent-award/negotiated-settlement mechanism used in government acquisition — where a Land Acquisition Collector issues an award and farmers can seek enhanced compensation through references or courts — does not apply here. The developer assembled the land parcel itself before seeking statutory approvals.

Villages and district covered

Public filings name only two revenue estates for the licensed parcel, both within Gurugram district:

• Bas Haria — Sector M9/M10/M11, Manesar
• Jhund Sarai (Abad) — Sector M9/M10/M11, Manesar

The project is located across the Revenue Estate of Village Bas Haria & Village Jhund Sarai Abad in Sectors M9, M10 & M11, Manesar, Gurugram. No other district or additional villages are named in the developer's HARERA/DTCP disclosures found for this project. If a wider land bank beyond the current 139.79-acre licence is assembled for the developer's stated future expansion, the villages involved have not been disclosed as of July 2026.

Compensation rates — not applicable/not disclosed

No per-acre or per-square-yard compensation rate for farmers or land-owners has been published for GIC Manesar, and none should be expected in the government-acquisition sense. Because this is a licensed private colony rather than a state land-pooling scheme, the developer's dealings with the original land-owning families are private commercial transactions and are not required to be, and have not been, publicly disclosed with per-unit rates, unlike acquisition-award notifications issued by government authorities elsewhere.

What is publicly filed is the resulting project cost, not a land-cost breakdown: Declared Total Estimated Cost (Within Project Area): ₹39,981.76 Lakhs (as per RERA filing). This RERA-filed figure covers construction and development costs disclosed to the regulator — it is not a land-acquisition compensation budget.

Investment and budget figures reported

The developer has publicised an overall investment figure for the township, separate from the RERA-filed project-cost disclosure above: The project represents an investment of about ₹7,200 crore and is projected to generate a topline of ₹12,000 crore. This ₹7,200 crore is the company's own stated development outlay across the full township vision (residential, commercial and industrial), not a government-sanctioned land-acquisition budget.

Coverage from November 2025 corroborates the same figures: As reported by Business Standard (Nov 5, 2025) and Mint Hindi (Nov 6, 2025), M3M India has committed an investment of ₹7,200 crore in this township, aiming to generate an estimated ₹12,000 crore in topline revenue.

Disputes or farmer negotiations

No land dispute, farmer protest or compensation grievance specific to the GIC Manesar licensed parcel (Bas Haria/Jhund Sarai) has surfaced in current reporting as of July 2026. This is consistent with the project's private-purchase acquisition route, where disputes — if any — would typically be resolved through private sale-deed negotiations rather than public compensation-award proceedings.

For context, IMT Manesar as a broader industrial estate has a history of land-acquisition friction unrelated to GIC: a separate, long-running conflict concerns land conflict in Gurugru, Haryana over farmers' protest and compensation disputes tied to land acquired in 2007 for Industrial Model Township expansion. That case involves different acquisition proceedings and predates GIC's 2025 licence by nearly two decades; it should not be read as describing GIC Manesar's own land history.

Current stage (as of July 2026)

GIC Manesar has moved from licensing to early construction/registration stage but remains far from completion:

• Zoning plan approved: 29 September 2025 (DTCP Memo No. 11473).
• DTCP development licence granted: Licence No. 168 of 2025, dated 8 September 2025.
• HARERA registration: RC/REP/HARERA/GGM/991/723/2025/94, dated 16 October 2025.
• Project timeline filed with HARERA: the project start date is 01 October 2025 and expected completion date is 30 September 2034; the RERA registration is valid from 16-10-2025 to 30-09-2034.
• Phase 1 status: Its first phase, already RERA-approved (HARERA/GGM/991/723/2025/94), covers 50 acres with around 300 plots for data centers, innovation hubs, EV facilities, retail spaces, and residential zones.
• Occupancy readiness: A recent independent assessment notes RERA approval covers the first 50 acres, not the whole 150 to 200 acre vision...Only the 50-acre first phase is RERA-approved so far, and it currently consists of plots rather than finished residential units.