Noida Authority Begins Land Acquisition Process in 37 Villages for New Noida (DNGIR)

What was decided

The Noida authority has commenced preparations for land acquisition for New Noida, also known as Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad Investment Region (DNGIR). The announcement, reported on 13 May 2026, confirmed that the process will cover 37 villages in Gautam Buddh Nagar and Bulandshahr for the Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad Investment Region (DNGIR), and in the first phase, through consent-based acquisition, the Noida authority will acquire land from 24 villages located in Bulandshahr and 13 in Gautam Buddh Nagar.

Kranti Shekhar Singh, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) of the Noida Authority, confirmed that land from these villages will be acquired in the first phase through consent-based acquisition.

Villages covered in this tranche

The 37-village tranche spans two districts. Villages named in reporting include, in Gautam Buddh Nagar: Anandpur, Bel Akbarpur, Kot, Milak Khandera, Phoolpur, and Sainthali, among others; and in Bulandshahr: Birondi Fauladpur, Birondi Tajpur, Kokhabad, Kaithara, Kishanpur, Muradabad, and Nawada, among others. These lists are illustrative, not exhaustive — the full village schedule has not been published in the reports reviewed.

Compensation rate and its legal basis

The Rs 4,300/sq m rate behind this acquisition round was not set on 13 May 2026 itself — it traces to an earlier Authority decision. The issue of land acquisition was resolved during the Noida Authority's 222nd Board Meeting, where the Authority revised the compensation rate payable to farmers for land acquisition to Rs 4,300 per square metre — matching the rate offered by the Yamuna Authority. Separately, reporting from April 2026 confirms the Authority fixed the land acquisition rates at Rs 4,300 per sq m, aligning with the revised rates announced by the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) for the Jewar Airport project. An allocation of Rs 800 crore has been earmarked for the first phase of land acquisition, though some other reports put the wider land-acquisition budget for all 80 villages at closer to Rs 1,000 crore.

How the process will run

To execute the consent-based model, the Noida Authority has requested the government to deploy as many as three tehsildars in the marked area to speed up the land acquisition process. Singh said that the Authority will set up a temporary office in New Noida to initiate the process. The land acquisition process is expected to begin in June this year — i.e., June 2026. The consent-based approach means landowners will have the opportunity to discuss and agree on compensation rather than having it imposed, an approach aimed at reducing disputes, making the process faster, and ensuring fair compensation for those affected.

Where this fits in the wider DNGIR master plan

The 37-village tranche is a subset of a much larger project. The new town of DNGIR covers an area of 209.11 square kilometers and includes 84 villages, spread across Gautam Buddha Nagar and Bulandshahr districts — 63 in Bulandshahr and 21 in Gautam Buddha Nagar. (Some other reports cite a round figure of 80 villages; village counts vary slightly across sources.)

Development is planned in four phases: the first phase, covering 3,165 hectares of land, is set to be completed by 2027; the second phase, scheduled between 2027 and 2032, will add another 3,798 hectares; the third phase will expand the development by 5,908 hectares by 2037, and the fourth and final phase will bring the total land use to 8,230 hectares by 2041. Over 40% of the land is designated for industrial purposes, and New Noida is also planned as an 'Education City,' with 1,662 hectares — around nine percent of the land — allocated for educational institutions.

Practical effect for landowners and investors

For landowners in the 37 named villages, the immediate effect is that Authority officials — backed by tehsildars and a local temporary office — will begin approaching residents to discuss consent-based sale of land at the Rs 4,300/sq m rate, with the process slated to start in June 2026. Once completed, the Authority will develop infrastructure such as roads, drainage systems, sewage networks, power supply, and water pipelines, after which industrial plots will be marked and allotted to manufacturers and logistics firms. For investors, this marks the shift of DNGIR from a paper master plan into on-the-ground execution, though it remains an early-stage, first-tranche acquisition covering under half of the ~80–84 villages ultimately envisaged for the project.