Noida Authority Approves SC-2 Layout for Sector 150 Sports City After Supreme Court Order

What was decided

The Noida Authority board — the civic body governing Sector 150, which sits along the Yamuna Expressway corridor near the Noida International Airport — has approved a revised layout for the 300-acre SC-2 plot of the Sector 150 Sports City scheme. The Noida Authority board approved a revised layout plan for the 300-acre Sports City SC-2 plot in Sector 150, a move expected to revive stalled housing projects and enable construction of flats. Separately, the board has also approved allowing joint developers (JDs) on SC-2 plots where projects are stuck, so that financially troubled builders can seek economic and technical partners to complete developments.

These Sector 150 decisions were reported alongside — but are administratively distinct from — a YEIDA announcement covering a new ~8,000-hectare city planned between the Noida airport and the Tappal–Bajna urban node, referred to in coverage as New Yamuna City. The announcement comes alongside a related move to revive stalled residential projects in Sector-150's Sports City, where Noida Authority has approved allowing joint developers (JDs) on SC-2 plots where projects are stuck.

The Supreme Court's role and timeline

The Sports City revival has moved forward under sustained Supreme Court pressure rather than as a standalone Noida Authority initiative. The Supreme Court granted a last and final opportunity to the Noida Authority to comply with its earlier directions aimed at reviving stalled real estate projects linked to the Noida Sports City development in Sector 150, with a bench directing the authority to strictly follow the orders issued on November 24, 2025 and January 15, 2026.

The foundational order came on 24 November 2025: on November 24, 2025, a bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma accepted the Noida Authority's resolution plan for Sector 150, allowing the issuance of conditional OCs and permitting registries for developers who meet compliance requirements, and directed the Noida Authority board to formally approve the plan within four weeks. A follow-up order dated 15 January 2025/2026 set out procedural steps: the revised master plan for Plot SC-02 Sector 150 was to be submitted to Noida Authority within 30 days of the Supreme Court's order, followed by revised/sanctioned building plans within 30 days of the master plan's board approval, with the revised master plan only placed before the board if found in line with the original Sports City scheme and brochure.

Conditions attached to the November 2025 order included dues payment and infrastructure deadlines: developers must clear at least 20% of their outstanding payments before getting any approvals, all mandated sports and recreational facilities must be completed within 3 years of the revised master plan's approval, and remaining infrastructure work must finish within 5 years. When compliance lagged, the Court issued a further push: "In the meantime, as a last and final opportunity, the earlier orders passed by this court dated November 24, 2025 and January 15, 2026 must be complied with by the respondent Noida," the bench said. Coverage of the July 2026 update frames the SC-2 layout approval as following a Supreme Court order in December 2025, and notes that SC-1's layout work only began moving after a separate May 2026 Supreme Court decision. The SC-2 plot hosts 24 subleased builder projects, while SC-1 contains 27, with layout work for SC-1 now underway after a May Supreme Court decision.

Scale and background: why Sports City stalled

Sector 150's Sports City was originally allotted to build sports infrastructure alongside residential towers. The Noida Authority allotted land to developers between 2011 and 2014 with a condition to build proper sports facilities alongside residential projects, but developers focused on constructing high-rise apartments and selling flats while the promised sports infrastructure never came up. A CAG audit and subsequent criminal probes followed: the CBI registered three cases related to alleged irregularities in the allotment, development and sanction of Sports City projects in Noida between 2011 and 2014, which turned into a roughly Rs 9,000-crore matter, aimed at developing world-class sports facilities with residential and commercial areas in sectors 78, 79 and 150 of Noida. The Sports City project had been mired in controversy after its layout was scrapped in 2022 over alleged irregularities and is under investigation by central agencies, including the CBI and the ED, in connection with the alleged scam.

The practical effect for buyers was a freeze on registries: registries were halted after the Noida Authority imposed a ban in January 2021, following findings that developers had failed to build required sports facilities, and the CAG also flagged large unpaid dues and irregularities. Lotus Green Constructions, the original SC-2 allottee, sub-leased the land to multiple builders: Lotus Green Constructions Pvt Ltd (LGCPL), the original allottee of the Sector 150 Sports City land, had sub-leased the 300-acre area to 24 developers who went on to build the residential projects.

Board actions: lifting the ban and approving the layout

The ban lift and the layout approval were taken at two separate board meetings. Following the Supreme Court's directions, the Noida Authority lifted the ban on the SC-02 Sports City project in Sector 150 during the authority's 221st board meeting, chaired by Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner and Noida Authority chairman Deepak Kumar; the ban had originally been imposed during the authority's 201st board meeting in January 2021.

The layout itself was formally cleared roughly two months later. During its 222nd board meeting on April 6, 2026, the Noida Authority officially approved the lifting of the ban on registries, map approvals, and the issuance of occupancy certificates for the stuck megaproject. The board's decision, chaired by Deepak Kumar, effectively unfreezes the administrative deadlock that had halted development and legal documentation in the sector. Reports on the scale of relief vary by source: one account describes the layout approval as a move expected to revive stalled housing projects and enable construction of flats affecting nearly 40,000 buyers, while another puts the figure at the Authority's formal compliance with a Supreme Court order... which mandated a resolution for the ambitious but troubled infrastructure project, benefiting a smaller reported group of around 20,000 buyers awaiting sub-lease execution. Buyers should treat these headline counts as approximate pending an official Noida Authority release.

The joint-developer (JD) route for stuck SC-2 plots

Alongside the layout approval, the board has opened a path for troubled builders on SC-2 to bring in outside partners rather than remain stuck. Noida Authority has approved allowing joint developers (JDs) on SC-2 plots where projects are stuck, enabling financially troubled builders to seek economic and technical partners to complete developments, which will allow the project to be completed and raise hopes that flat buyers will receive their homes sooner.

This mirrors a broader Noida co-developer mechanism used elsewhere in the city for stalled projects, under which a new builder can step in once financial and legal conditions are met. The Co-Developer Policy in Noida is a rule set by the Noida Authority and Uttar Pradesh government that allows a new builder to step in and finish housing projects stuck because the original builder ran into trouble, requiring the new builder to first clear legal cases, pay at least twenty-five percent of land dues, and show they have the money and skills to complete the project before the project is regularised and the new builder is allowed to act as promoter under RERA. Whether the Sector 150 SC-2 joint-developer terms mirror this exact 25%-dues threshold has not been separately confirmed for Sports City and should be checked against the specific board resolution when published.

SC-1 status and the broader Sports City timeline

SC-1, the other major sub-leased block in Sector 150 with 27 subleased builder projects, has moved on a slightly separate and later track. Layout work for SC-1 is now underway after a May Supreme Court decision, distinct from the SC-2 order that unlocked the 300-acre layout. Registries for existing occupied flats had already begun moving before the SC-2 layout clearance: Noida Authority opened property registrations for around 9,000 homebuyers in Sector 150 Sports City after the Supreme Court's 24 November 2025 directive on granting conditional occupancy certificates, formally implemented in January 2026. Registrations began on January 7, 2026, following the SC's directive on conditional OCs.

Local coverage cautions that approvals remain conditional and project-specific: OCs and registrations are still being granted conditionally and on a project-by-project basis, with final completion timelines depending on developers meeting court-mandated conditions, so homebuyers are advised to track project-specific status before proceeding with possession or financial commitments.

How this connects to the separate 'New Yamuna City' plan

The Sector 150 Sports City decisions fall under Noida Authority, not YEIDA. They were reported together with a distinct YEIDA initiative because both concern the same Yamuna Expressway growth corridor. YEIDA's separate move: the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority has announced plans to develop a new city across roughly 8,000 hectares between the proposed Noida airport and the Tappal–Bajna urban node, evolving the authority's plan from an industrial node into a complete ecosystem with residential sectors, schools, colleges, a university, hospitals, hotels, malls and shopping complexes.

On process: YEIDA has floated a tender to appoint an expert agency to prepare the techno-economic feasibility report and city master plan, with agencies able to submit bids until August 5 and technical bids opening August 7; the selected consultant will have six months for the feasibility report followed by four months to finalise the master plan. As ACEO Shailendra Bhatia put it, "The new city will be developed across approximately 8,000 hectares between the Noida airport and the Tappal–Bajna urban centre. We are selecting an expert agency to prepare its techno-economic feasibility report and the master plan." This YEIDA master-plan process is at a much earlier, pre-feasibility stage than the Sector 150 Sports City layout approval, which is already at construction-plan stage for existing sub-leased projects.