Noida Authority Approves Joint-Developer Policy to Revive Stalled Sports City SC-2 Projects

What was decided

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. This will allow the project to be completed and raise hopes that flat buyers will receive their homes sooner.

Satish Pal, ACEO of the Yamuna Authority, said the arrangement will attract fresh investment and expertise to troubled projects; the authority will only grant an NOC, and any disputes between the original builder and the JD will be the parties' responsibility.

The plot in question: Sports City SC-2, Sector 150

Construction at the Sports City had been halted since 2021 amid prolonged disputes. Layout approval for the 300-acre SC-2 plot was recently granted, and multiple builders have applied for plan approvals. The SC-2 plot hosts 24 subleased builder projects.

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.

How the freeze was lifted: the April 2026 board decision

The joint-developer policy builds on an earlier board action. In compliance with the Supreme Court's order in SLP No. 6118/2025 dated 24.11.2025, the Board approved the revised layout / land-use plan for Sports City Plot SC-02, Sector 150, and withdrew the restrictive decisions from the 201st Board Meeting (18.01.2021) and the 202nd Board Meeting (25.06.2021) in respect of map revalidation, revised maps, new maps and occupancy-certificate related processing for all Sports City projects.

Noida has four Sports City allotments from 2011 to 2014, to Xanadu (Sectors 78, 79 & 101), Logix (SC-01/150), Lotus Greens (SC-02/150) and ATS (SC-01/152). The registry ban that was initially instituted in January 2021 was associated with unpaid developer dues and the inability to deliver promised sports infrastructure.

Separate reporting put the scale of relief differently across outlets: 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 affecting nearly 40,000 buyers. Another account of the same board meeting put the immediate benefit at the lifting of the ban on registries, map approvals, and the issuance of occupancy certificates for the stuck megaproject, with the immediate beneficiary being the SC-02 Sports City project (allotted to Lotus Greens) in Sector 150.

Why builders needed a joint-developer route

The Sports City projects were also under legal and financial strain independent of the registry ban. The Sports City project had been mired in controversy after its layout was scrapped in 2022 over alleged irregularities, and is also under investigation by central agencies, including the CBI and the ED, in connection with an alleged Rs 9,000 crore scam. 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, against Logix Infra Developers, Xanadu Estates and Lotus Green Constructions.

Against that backdrop, the JD policy is designed as a practical fix rather than a legal resolution: it lets an individual builder who lacks funds or technical capacity bring in a new partner, with the authority's involvement limited to issuing a no-objection certificate. Any disputes between the original builder and the joint developer remain the two parties' own responsibility.

Context: reported alongside YEIDA's new city plan

The SC-2 joint-developer move was reported in the same story as a separate, much larger announcement from the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority. YEIDA has announced plans to develop a new city across roughly 8,000 hectares between the proposed Noida airport and the Tappal–Bajna urban node, marking a major expansion of the authority's earlier industrial-only vision. The plan has evolved from an industrial node into a complete ecosystem, with residential sectors, schools, colleges, a university, large hospitals, hotels, malls and shopping complexes envisaged alongside industrial development.

YEIDA has floated a tender to appoint an expert agency to prepare the techno-economic feasibility report and the city master plan. The selected consultant will have six months to prepare the feasibility report, followed by four months to finalise the master plan. This new-city plan is a distinct project from Sector 150's Sports City, which sits within Noida Authority's jurisdiction; the two were simply covered together because both involve the Yamuna Expressway corridor and were disclosed around the same date.

Practical effect for homebuyers and builders

• Builders on stalled SC-2 sub-projects can now formally bring in a joint developer with fresh capital or execution capacity, instead of remaining stuck pending their own resolution of dues and construction.
• This is expected to allow stalled projects to be completed and raise hopes that flat buyers will receive their homes sooner.
• The authority's role is limited: it issues an NOC for the JD arrangement but does not adjudicate or guarantee the commercial terms between the original allottee/sub-lessee and the incoming partner, per Satish Pal's statement that any disputes between the original builder and the JD will be the parties' responsibility.
• The policy sits on top of, not instead of, the April 2026 layout and registry-related relief already granted for SC-02.

What is still unresolved

The joint-developer policy addresses execution capacity, not the underlying disputes. The project remains under investigation by central agencies, including the CBI and the ED, in connection with an alleged Rs 9,000 crore scam. Officials have said a similar resolution framework will be applied to revive two other stalled Sports City projects in Noida (the Logix SC-01/150 and ATS SC-01/152 allotments), but as of this report those had not been confirmed as covered by the same JD policy specifically for SC-2. Buyers evaluating units in JD-run sub-projects should independently verify which sub-lease/JD has authority NOC before relying on completion timelines.