Khurpia Industrial Smart City (Kichha IMC) — Master Plan

What this project is

Khurpia Farm in Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, is a 1,002-acre Integrated Manufacturing Cluster under the Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC). The site is located about 17 km from Rudrapur in Kichha Tehsil, near NH-09, NH-109, and SH-44. It is one of 12 greenfield industrial nodes cleared nationally in 2024, and the only one in Uttarakhand.

The project is being taken forward by the state's SIIDCUL/NUITL entities with funding and coordination support from the National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC). Development plans focus on establishing Khurpia as an automobile hub, alongside engineering and fabrication industries.

Planning horizon: what's confirmed and what isn't

No official document found in this research sets out a single long-term 'master plan horizon year' (e.g., a 2041-style target) for Khurpia, unlike a typical city master plan. What is documented is a phased infrastructure build-out under an EPC (Engineering-Procurement-Construction) contract for trunk works, awarded in 2025.

Total planned area vs. area being developed now: the two official figures on record differ slightly — NICDC's own project page states 1,002 acres, while the environmental clearance Form-1 filing states the IMC site covers 1,013.386 acres (410.10 ha) across the villages of Khurpia, Bandiya, Deoria, Gauri Kalan & Bhooragauri. Neither document specifies a separate, smaller acreage that will be 'developed by' a named target year — the whole site is being planned and serviced as a single mixed-use cluster, rolled out through phased trunk-infrastructure contracts rather than a staged land release with per-phase hectare targets.

Land use

The site is planned as a mixed-use area rather than a purely industrial estate. The proposed IMC Khurpia is a mixed development area, with residential, public, recreational and utility areas alongside the industrial zone. Development comprises industrial units, residential area, commercial area, roads, public utilities and amenities, and green areas.

No official document found gives a percentage breakdown (e.g., X% industrial, Y% residential) of this land use — only the category list above and specific built-up-area figures for individual components. We have therefore not presented a land-use percentage split, to avoid inventing numbers that aren't in the public record.

Some documented physical planning details:

• A hierarchical road network is proposed with rights-of-way of 60m, 45m, 30m, 24m, 18m and 7m, focused on industrial entry points and traffic-generating land uses.
• Sub-arterial, distributor and feeder roads of 30m, 24m and 18m RoW run for about 6.2 km, 1.5 km and 9 km respectively.
• An 8.23-acre site is proposed in the master plan for a truck terminal, given the volume of freight traffic expected.
• Total power demand is estimated at 115 MVA, split roughly 100 MVA for the industrial area and 15 MVA for residential, commercial, street lighting and utilities.

Phases

Public documents describe the rollout in two broad stages, though without stated hectare splits or calendar target years for each:

• Phase 1 — covers the trunk infrastructure now under an EPC contract: roads, wet utilities, power infrastructure (substations), a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) and Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), and the primary site entrances. Two entrance gates are to be developed in Phase 1 under the scope of the EPC contractor.
• Phase 2 — covers a further access road and any land not yet acquired. A future Access 3 from SH-44 is planned to be built in Phase 2 of the project upon acquisition of land.

Because neither phase carries a published hectare figure or a firm target year in the documents reviewed, we have not assigned invented numbers to them here.

Population and employment targets

Two different sets of figures appear in the public record, from two different sources and methods:

• Government/investment-promotion figures: a project cost of ₹1,265 crore and an investment potential of ₹6,180 crore, with the IMC expected to generate over 75,000 jobs. State officials have cited an employment potential of 75,057 people against this investment potential.
• Environmental clearance (EIA) projections for the site itself: a total working population of about 19,000 and a total residential population of about 17,670 living within the IMC's residential component.

These are not contradictory — the larger 75,000-job figure represents the broader economic/employment potential of the investment attracted to the cluster (including offsite and indirect effects), while the 17,670–19,000 figures are the planner's estimate of people who will actually live and work on the IMC site itself.

Planner / consultant

No single named master-plan architect/urban-planning firm for Khurpia was identified in public sources as of this research. What is documented: Building Environment (India) Pvt. Ltd. (BEIPL), in joint venture with LEA Associates, carried out EIA report preparation — including site visits, baseline monitoring and the Environmental Management Plan — for the IMC Khurpia project, funded by NICDC with SIIDCUL as the project proponent. The detailed engineering master plan for roads, utilities and plot layout is being finalised through the EPC contractor appointed for the trunk-infrastructure works.

Current status and where to find official documents

As of February 2026, Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) had been formed for all 12 new greenfield industrial cities approved in 2024, including Khurpia, and EPC contractors had already been appointed for nine of the twelve projects. Uttarakhand's implementing entity has run EPC tenders (referenced as Tender No. 06/NUITL/2025) for the trunk infrastructure works at Khurpia.

Official and primary-source documents can be found at:

• NICDC's project page for IMC Khurpia (nicdc.in) — for the current official project summary and figures.
• The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change's Environment Clearance portal (environmentclearance.nic.in) — for the Form-1 application and EIA-related filings submitted by SIIDCUL for the project.
• NICDC's tender/EPC document repository (api.nicdc.in) — for the bidding documents that contain the detailed engineering master-plan drawings and infrastructure specifications used for construction.

We do not reproduce figures, drawings or text from those documents beyond what is cited above; readers should consult the linked portals directly for the primary material.