Meerut New Township (Mohiuddinpur): Land Acquisition Status

Acquisition Model: Consent, Not Compulsion

Rather than acquiring land through compulsory acquisition, the Meerut Development Authority is purchasing land from farmers on the basis of consent. Farmers sign consent letters, MEDA verifies title, heirs and pending litigation on the plot, and only then is a registered sale deed (banama) executed in MEDA's name. After checking heirs and any pending cases, registration in MEDA's favour begins once the land is found in order.

By late February 2024, an OSD reported that 304 farmers had already given consent for more than 60 hectares of their land, and MEDA had completed the process of receiving these consent letters. By early 2024, 347 farmers had given consent for 70.29 hectares. The first formal sale deeds followed in May 2024, when five farmers executed a sale deed for 0.7983 hectares of land in favour of MEDA, for which cheques worth ₹7.17 crore were handed over.

Compensation Rates

Land for the integrated township is being purchased at rates four times the circle rate. Farmers are being paid four times the circle rate amount, and separate compensation is being calculated and paid for buildings, tubewells, crops and other assets on the land.

An example of an actual payout: for four khasra numbers (137, 140, 141 and 142) in Mohiuddinpur, MEDA transferred ₹9.82 crore (9 crore 82 lakh 36 thousand 742 rupees) into the bank accounts of 15 farmers whose land was covered under these plots.

Villages Covered and Area Breakdown

All the land for this township lies in Meerut district, spread across four villages along Delhi Road near the Meerut South RRTS corridor: Mohiuddinpur, Chhajjupur, Ikla and Kayastha Gaondi.

Village-wise hectare figures reported by MEDA: 111.79 hectares from Mohiuddinpur, 130.81 hectares from Kayasth Gaondi, 21.97 hectares from Ikla and 30.09 hectares from Chhajjupur. Combined, this comes to roughly the 294.6813 hectares total figure cited by MDA officials for the four-village footprint. Development is planned across 31 sectors in two phases.

• Phase 1: Mohiuddinpur (111.79 ha) + Chhajjupur (30.09 ha) — a combined 141.88 hectares along Delhi Road, on which about ₹1,007.34 crore will be spent for this land. This phase is expected to affect 750 farmers.
• Phase 2: Ikla (21.97 ha) + Kayastha Gaondi (130.81 ha), planned for the second stage of development.

An earlier 2023 version of the plan had also referenced land near Bhudbaral and Partapur as part of a Partapur–Mohiuddinpur township proposal, but subsequent reporting through 2024–2026 confirms the four-village footprint (Mohiuddinpur, Chhajjupur, Ikla, Kayastha Gaondi) as the one actually being acquired.

Budget Allocated and Spent

MEDA's own 2023 estimate put total land-purchase cost at roughly ₹2,000 crore, with a funding request of ₹1,000 crore, as disclosed by MDA Vice President Abhishek Pandey. Under the state's Integrated Township scheme, authorities receive fifty percent of the funding required for land acquisition from the government. The state government's initial sanction was ₹503 crore for the first phase, approved after MDA's proposal was presented to the Additional Chief Secretary.

Subsequent tranches followed: ₹200 crore was released to MEDA to begin land purchases in mid-2024, and a further ₹409 crore was released for the township in March 2025.

By April 2026, actual spending on land had reached ₹1,086 crore, with which MEDA had bought 150 hectares of land from farmers, and a further 144 hectares was still to be acquired. Separately, a fortnightly infrastructure tracker listed the overall project (not just land) at an estimated value of ₹2,570 crore for the 295-hectare integrated township.

Disputes and Farmer Response

Compared with many other land-acquisition drives in Uttar Pradesh, this project has so far progressed largely through negotiated consent rather than confrontation. There was one reported friction point: ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, some farmers who visited MDA's office felt the new integrated township process lacked transparency, and they met MDA Vice President Abhishek Pandey to raise the issue; after the meeting, farmers reportedly came to agree with the process and it was expected that sale-deed registrations would resume soon.

No large-scale farmer protests specific to the Mohiuddinpur township have been reported in the searched coverage through April 2026. This is distinct from MDA's older, unrelated Shatabdi Nagar land dispute from the 1980s, where farmers protested over compensation rates decided years after acquisition — that case does not concern the current Mohiuddinpur project.

Current Stage (as of April 2026)

As of the most recent reporting, land purchase is roughly half done by area: 150 hectares bought for ₹1,086 crore, with 144 hectares still to be acquired. Earlier milestones show the pace of progress: by August 2025, 127 hectares had been purchased, with acquisition continuing in Mohiuddinpur, Chhajjupur, Ikla and Kayasth Gaondi villages, and a drone survey for the state's first integrated TOD township in Meerut had been completed. MEDA planned to complete work in two sectors by November 2025 and to begin with wide arterial roads, ahead of an official launch and plot sales around Diwali 2025.

The project continues to be described as Uttar Pradesh's first integrated Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) township, mixing residential, commercial and industrial use within the same buildings, located close to the Meerut South RRTS station.