Taiwan City (YEIDA) Land Acquisition: Rates, Villages, Budget and Current Status

What Taiwan City is, and where it sits

In Sector 6, the Authority reserved 300 acres for a Taiwan City to draw electronics and technical manufacturing firms from the country. Approval was granted for a Taiwan-based industry/Taiwan City on 300 acres and a Pharmaceutical Formulation Manufacturing Cluster on 100-125 acres in the same sector. The project is aimed at attracting Taiwan-based companies and investment in electronics, technology and manufacturing.

Acquisition model: consent purchase vs. acquisition award

YEIDA runs two parallel tracks for assembling land in the sectors around the Noida International Airport, and Sector 6 falls inside this general pool rather than under a standalone Taiwan City notification. Of a broader 6,065-hectare land parcel covering these sectors, 1,609 hectares were to be purchased directly from farmers through mutual agreement, 4,076 hectares acquired through the formal land acquisition process, and the remaining 380 hectares reclaimed as government land. Officials said land parcels would be acquired from 40 villages to set up new sectors including 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, besides sectors 22E, 28, 29, 32 and 33.

For the mutual-consent track specifically, land purchase rates for Phase 1 areas of Gautam Budh Nagar and Bulandshahr were raised 6 per cent to Rs 4,558 per square metre with farmers' consent, alongside an option of Rs 4,037 per sqm and a 7 per cent developed Abadi plot. Where consent purchase does not proceed, YEIDA has historically fallen back on formal acquisition under the UP Industrial Area Development Act, which has in the past produced litigation (see Disputes below).

Current compensation rates

The headline consent-purchase rate as of the 17 August 2026 board meeting is Rs 4,558 per square metre, with an alternative of Rs 4,037 per sqm plus a 7 per cent developed Abadi plot. This rate track has moved up repeatedly over recent years:

• In 2022, the authority set the farmer-purchase rate at ₹2,178.20 per square metre.
• Farmers had already seen an increase from Rs 2,650 per square metre in 2022 to a later figure.
• In March 2025, the authority proposed offering Rs 4,300 per square metre for the land, a significant increase from the earlier rate of Rs 3,400 per square metre.
• By August 2026 this was revised again to the current ₹4,558/sqm figure noted above.

Separately, YEIDA has planned to offer a hiked 64.7 per cent land compensation to farmers in districts including Aligarh, Mathura, Hathras and Agra, whose land falls outside master plan-2041, though YEIDA is not as yet aware how much land falls in this category and how much total amount the authority needs to pay to farmers in the hiked compensation. On the abadi (habitation) plot side, 6,263 farmers in 29 villages have received letters for reservation of abadi plots on the 7% plot policy. Authority-wide, YEIDA has confirmed that it has already paid around ₹2,986 crore as additional compensation to farmers between 2014-15 and 2025-26.

Villages and districts covered

YEIDA's jurisdiction is large and spans several districts, though public reporting does not break out a separate village list for the 300-acre Taiwan City parcel itself. At the authority-wide level, the notified area covers villages across Gautam Budh Nagar, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Mathura, and Agra districts, with a grand total of 1,189 villages. A separate news account of the founding notification put the figure slightly differently: around 200,000 hectares from 1,187 villages of six districts — Gautam Budh Nagar, Bulandshahar, Aligarh, Hathras, Mathura, and Agra — were notified under YEIDA.

Sector 6, where Taiwan City is sited, is part of the batch of sectors for which the authority said it would acquire land parcels from 40 villages to develop new sectors including 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, besides sectors 22E, 28, 29, 32 and 33. No source reviewed names the specific villages whose land underlies the 300-acre Taiwan City footprint or gives a district-by-district village count for that parcel alone — this level of detail has not been separately disclosed as of September 2026.

Budget allocated

There is no dedicated, publicly reported budget line for the Taiwan City land parcel specifically. What is documented is YEIDA's overall finances around the 92nd board meeting that approved the project: in the financial year 2025-26, receipts up to 31 July stood at Rs 974.37 crore, while in 2026-27 the same figure rose to Rs 1,853.74 crore — an increase of 90.25 per cent — with expenditure also increasing to Rs 3,690.64 crore. Under the industrial/mixed land scheme, state receipts totalled Rs 1,195.99 crore.

For historical context on how YEIDA has funded land purchase in this belt, its FY2022-23 budget cycle offers a benchmark: the authority approved a budget of ₹4,528 crore for the 2022-23 financial year, of which a lion's share of ₹1,535 crore was earmarked for land acquisition to buy 1,200 acres of land.

Disputes and farmer negotiations

YEIDA's land-acquisition history in this belt includes serious, prolonged disputes, though none reported so far are tied specifically to the Taiwan City parcel. The most prominent is the 2011 unrest: in 2009 YEIDA attempted to acquire land for 2,300 plots, which was opposed by farmers from 14 villages including Bhatta and Parsaul, who filed over 700 writ petitions in the Allahabad High Court over low land acquisition rates.

A related, decade-long legal fight over nine villages was only resolved recently: approximately 100 farmers in 2009 filed 25 writs from nine villages, including Kadalpur, Rustampur, Dungarpur, and Rampur Bangar, among others, arguing that the acquisition process was arbitrary and illegal because the government had no ground to show an unforeseen urgency to invoke the urgency clause and deny landholders the right to object. After the courts ultimately sided with the authority, YEIDA's CEO said the ruling would help resolve land disputes, complete stalled projects, and provide possession to at least 5,500 plot owners affected by the litigation, with the authority now paying compensation and distributing plots to farmers following the court order.

On rates specifically, farmers have repeatedly pushed back on proposed figures as too low relative to Noida-side benchmarks; when the ₹4,300/sqm rate was floated in early 2025, farmers, who had already seen an increase from Rs 2,650 per square metre in 2022, voiced their concerns, demanding equal treatment across all acquired land. Around the same August 2026 meeting that approved Taiwan City, a local legislator flagged the fairness question directly: Jewar MLA Dhirendra Singh said, "as the value and economic potential of the region increase, it is only fair that farmers also receive an enhanced and equitable share of that growth."

Current stage (as of September 2026)

Taiwan City is at the sector-reservation and planning stage, not yet at completed acquisition or plot allotment. At its 92nd board meeting, held on a Monday in August 2026, YEIDA reviewed its financial figures and approved several important development projects, including the 300-acre Taiwan City reservation in Sector 6. In parallel, the board revised the consent-purchase compensation rate: this adjustment reflects the rising value of land in the corridor and the authority's effort to streamline land acquisition for faster project commencement.

Independent commentary on the same round of approvals cautions that formal sign-off is only the first step: the successful conversion of these plans into reality depends heavily on the authority's ability to execute construction according to the proposed timelines and, more importantly, the ability to attract actual corporate tenants to these hubs. As of this writing, no source reviewed reports that detailed land-parcel identification, village-wise consent drives, or plot allotment have begun for the Taiwan City site itself.