Integrated Industrial Township Greater Noida (IITGN): Land Acquisition, Compensation and Current Status

How the land was acquired: the legal model

IITGN's land was not acquired through a fresh, project-specific land acquisition drive. It comes from land already under the control of the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA), which was then transferred into a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the township. DMIC Integrated Industrial Township Greater Noida Limited is the SPV that implements the project, and it is jointly formed by Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) & National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT) with an equity holding of 50% each.

The underlying legal power GNIDA uses to assemble land in the wider Greater Noida area combines two routes. Under the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973, the authority's functions include the power to acquire land in the industrial development area, by agreement or through proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 for the purposes of this Act. A separate 1997 state rule, the Uttar Pradesh Land Acquisition (Determination of Compensation and Declaration of Award by Agreement) Rules, 1997, allows compensation to be settled by negotiated agreement rather than only by a formal award — in effect, a hybrid consent-plus-statutory-award model rather than pure consent acquisition.

Compensation rates: what is documented, and its limits

No IITGN-specific per-hectare or per-square-metre farmer compensation figure for the 747.5-acre site has been published in available reporting. What is documented is the compensation history for GNIDA's land bank in Gautam Buddha Nagar more broadly, from which the IITGN parcel was drawn.

The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority acquired land from farmers between 2002 and 2009 for the development of townships and urbanisation in and around Noida. Farmers later went to court over the compensation paid. In 2011, a group of farmers filed a petition before the Allahabad High Court challenging the acquisition procedure and demanding increased compensation rates, and in October 2011 the Court directed the authority to increase the compensation of petitioning farmers by 64.7 percent, and return 10 percent of the land in the form of developed residential land. The state government and authorities challenged the verdict before the Supreme Court, which dismissed the challenges in 2015.

To recover the higher payout, GNIDA passed the cost on to buyers of land in its townships. Following the orders of the Allahabad High Court to give additional 64.7 percent compensation to the farmers, the authority will charge more money from people (allottees of the township) at Rs 1,287 per square metre rate, a charge the authority moved to recover from allottees in October 2019. This Rs 1,287/sq m figure is a recovery surcharge on allottees across GNIDA's townships generally — it is not confirmed in reporting as an IITGN-specific line item.

Separately, current land allotment rates (what investors pay for plots inside IITGN — distinct from farmer compensation) have been published for specific schemes. For residential group housing plots, as per prevailing allotment rate on the last date of proposal submission, the current rate is Rs. 43,000 per Sqm. Industrial plot allotment rates are set separately by scheme and revised periodically.

Villages covered

Available reporting does not list a village-by-village breakdown of the 747.5 acres that make up the IITGN site itself. What is documented is the scale of the wider land-acquisition programme run by GNIDA, which covers dozens of villages across Gautam Buddha Nagar district and from which this and other Greater Noida projects have drawn land over the years. On 27 December 2017, farmers from more than 45 villages protested in front of the office Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) under the banner of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti over compensation terms tied to this broader acquisition history. No IITGN-specific village list or per-district village count has been found in current reporting; this section will be updated if GNIDA or NICDC publish one.

Budget and land value

Land transfer and project financing figures for IITGN are documented through Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) progress notes. DMIC Integrated Industrial Township Greater Noida Limited SPV was incorporated on 18th March, 2014; EC for the project has been granted by MoEF&CC on 27th November, 2017. Land admeasuring 747.5 Acre has been transferred to the SPV of the project and matching equity amounting to Rs. 617.20 crore. GoI has approved the tender packages for various infrastructure components amounting to Rs. 1,097.5 Crore. Separately, general reporting around the project's January 2024 inauguration put the Costing Rs 1,714 crore and covering 747 acres figure as the overall project cost, roughly consistent with a similar Rs 1,700 crore figure cited elsewhere.

Disputes and farmer negotiations

The compensation dispute connected to GNIDA's land bank — the pool from which IITGN's site comes — ran for years through the courts and street protests, though it was not framed in reporting as an IITGN-specific dispute. Another set of affected farmers filed a petition before the High Court asking for the increased compensation decided in the previous case; however, the court dismissed this petition and directed the Authority to decide whether they were willing to extend the same benefit to the other landowners. Protests followed: the meeting with the additional CEO of GNIDA failed to satisfy the protesters, but in January 2018, the government assured the farmers that their demands will be addressed after the protests started again. The matter was resolved administratively rather than through further litigation: in February 2018, Uttar Pradesh government agreed to allot 10 percent of developed residential plots to all the petitioners, according to a report. The state government's announcement and the Supreme Court's decision have been well received by the authorities. No disputes specific to the IITGN parcel — as opposed to the general GNIDA land bank — have been reported.

Current stage (as of late 2025)

Land assembly and transfer for IITGN is complete, and the project has moved into the operational allotment and infrastructure-build-out phase. Trunk infrastructure activities have been completed at Integrated Industrial Township (IITGN) at Greater Noida (747 acre), Uttar Pradesh, and the site was formally inaugurated by the Prime Minister in January 2024. Plot allotment is ongoing: a total of 26 plots admeasuring 261 Acre have been allotted with HAIER (123.7 Acre in Sept 2018) as the anchor investor. Work continues on rail and logistics infrastructure inside the township boundary — as of the DPIIT update dated 31 October 2025, execution of an MOU between DFCCIL and the SPV under process for the internal rail yard, a revised Engineering Scale Plan for rail infra works was approved by DFCCIL on 18th July 2025, and a Notice Inviting Tender for appointment of a concessionaire was floated by the SPV on 11 October 2025. No fresh farmer land-acquisition activity tied specifically to IITGN was found in current reporting — the acquisition phase for this site is closed, with the remaining activity centred on allotment and infrastructure delivery.