Tappal-Bajna Urban Centre: Land Acquisition, Compensation and Current Status

Acquisition Model: Award Process Plus a Pending Social Impact Assessment

Land for the Tappal-Bajna Urban Centre is being brought under YEIDA through the formal statutory route rather than a purely negotiated purchase. A social impact assessment conducted by Gautam Buddha University under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 has looked at impacts for at least one component of the project. This SIA route is a precondition under the 2013 Act before a formal acquisition award can be issued, and it is meant to map affected families, assess livelihood loss, and recommend resettlement measures before compensation is finalised.

YEIDA had already issued a notification to acquire 736 hectares in Tappal, with the social impact assessment process running at that time. A further letter was sent to the Aligarh administration asking it to start a social impact assessment for over 1,600 hectares of land earmarked for a logistics park and industrial development in the Tappal-Bajna Urban Centre. Gautam Buddha University was named to carry out this assessment, with survey teams to be formed in both districts and surveys due to begin shortly after. This is a separate, later-stage proposal to the 736-hectare notification, not a duplicate of it — the two figures describe different tranches of the same broader push into Tappal-Bajna.

Separately from this statutory acquisition, YEIDA has also been trying to stop informal, unauthorised land sales inside the notified area — a parallel track that complicates the clean-award model (see the disputes section below).

How Much Land — and Why the Numbers Don't Match

Reported acreage for Tappal-Bajna has varied significantly across YEIDA announcements over 2023–2026, which readers should treat as different tranches or different project components rather than a single consistent figure:

• YEIDA has stated plans to acquire 1,900 hectares of land in Tappal village for the logistics park and other projects, building on a 2023 notification for 736 hectares that is going through the SIA process.
• A separate figure of 1,449 hectares in Tappal-Bajna (Aligarh) has been cited for industrial development, alongside 178 hectares in Dorpuri-Stharol villages for a logistics park.
• Another YEIDA announcement referenced acquiring 2,000 hectares of land in Aligarh's Tappal village for logistics parks and other master-plan projects.
• The multi-modal logistics park component itself is described as sitting on 364 acres within the Tappal-Bajna Urban Centre, a 27,438-acre industrial and residential township near the Noida International Airport, under Master Plan 2031 Phase II, with a project cost of ₹1,040 crore.

The Uttar Pradesh government approved YEIDA's Master Plan 2031 Phase-II in March 2025, formally designating Tappal-Bajna as an industrial township integrated with the Yamuna Expressway corridor. No single, reconciled acreage figure for the complete Tappal-Bajna acquisition has been published alongside that approval.

Villages Covered

All reported acquisition activity for this project sits within Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh. No official, consolidated village count for the entire Tappal-Bajna Urban Centre has been published; the numbers that exist relate to specific project components:

• The multi-modal logistics park component is described as spanning 478 hectares across seven villages.
• YEIDA's CEO has flagged the rapid, unauthorised emergence of colonies across 90 villages in the broader Tappal-Bajna area, though this figure describes the encroachment problem rather than a confirmed acquisition-village count.
• As of 2025, YEIDA had reclaimed land in Tappal and nearby villages including Hamidpur and Syarol through demolition of unauthorised construction.

Key villages named repeatedly in reporting are Tappal and Bajna themselves, along with Hamidpur and Syarol. A separate, adjoining land parcel in Dorpuri and Syarol/Stharol villages has also been referenced for a related but distinct logistics-park acquisition rather than the core Tappal-Bajna parcel.

Compensation Rates and Budget

No per-hectare or per-square-metre compensation rate specific to the Tappal-Bajna acquisition has been published in available reporting as of the latest updates. This is consistent with the project still being in the SIA stage for at least part of its footprint, since final compensation amounts under the RFCTLARR Act are normally fixed only after the SIA and award process concludes.

For comparison — and this rate applies to a different YEIDA jurisdiction, not Tappal-Bajna — YEIDA increased land acquisition rates in Jewar, Gautam Budh Nagar district, to ₹4,300 per square metre, inclusive of 100% solatium. That revision covers villages near the Noida International Airport site, not Aligarh district, so it should not be read as the Tappal-Bajna rate.

On budget, figures found in reporting relate to different slices of the project or to YEIDA's authority-wide land programme rather than a single dedicated Tappal-Bajna outlay:

• The multi-modal logistics park within Tappal-Bajna carries a project cost of ₹1,040 crore.
• A separate, smaller logistics-hub component covering 166 hectares is being developed via public-private partnership with an investment of over ₹640 crore, projected to create around 10,000 jobs.
• Authority-wide, YEIDA's FY2025-26 budget set aside ₹9,250 crore for land acquisition across all its projects, not specific to Tappal-Bajna alone.

Disputes, Encroachment and Farmer Concerns

The most visible friction around this acquisition has not been a classic compensation dispute but a race against unauthorised plotting and informal sales inside the notified area.

• Unauthorised encroachments in Aligarh's Tappal-Bajna area have been reported as jeopardising YEIDA's ₹1,040 crore logistics park project, with the 364-acre park facing challenges as residential plot registrations surge.
• Despite YEIDA's land acquisition efforts, unauthorised sales have persisted, with prices ranging from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 per square metre.
• YEIDA's CEO had earlier flagged unauthorised colonies across 90 villages, and a survey by the sub-divisional magistrate in January 2024 found unauthorised plotting along with unpaved roads and makeshift boundary walls in areas under YEIDA's jurisdiction.
• YEIDA has urged the Aligarh administration to halt land registries in the Tappal-Bajna area, with its Officer on Special Duty requesting a ban on residential plot registrations in the notified region.
• In response, an anti-encroachment drive has been planned to remove illegal constructions, in collaboration with local authorities.
• As of 2025, YEIDA had already reclaimed over 300 acres in Tappal and nearby villages like Hamidpur and Syarol through demolition of unauthorised construction, valued at approximately ₹1,200 crore.

Separately, the SIA process itself is explicitly intended to head off farmer-compensation disputes before they start: the assessment is meant to ensure fair compensation is awarded to farmers and landowners before acquisition proceeds. No reports of farmer dharnas, court cases, or "no-litigation bonus" disputes specific to Tappal-Bajna were found in current coverage — the documented conflict so far is between YEIDA and unauthorised colonisers/plot sellers, not between YEIDA and the original landowning farmers.

Current Stage

As of the most recent reporting available (early-to-mid 2026), Tappal-Bajna's acquisition sits at a mixed stage across its different components:

• The overall township has statutory backing: the UP government approved YEIDA's Master Plan 2031 Phase-II in March 2025, designating Tappal-Bajna as an industrial township integrated with the Yamuna Expressway corridor.
• The core acquisition is still working through SIA stages, with separate tranches (736 hectares notified in 2023, and a further 1,600+ hectare proposal sent for SIA in early 2025) at different points in the process rather than a single completed award.
• For the multi-modal logistics park component specifically, an industry source states that 80% of the land acquisition has been completed, allowing the park to move toward operations faster than earlier anticipated — this claim comes from a real-estate advisory source rather than an official YEIDA statement, so it should be treated as a reported industry claim pending official confirmation.
• YEIDA's enforcement priority in parallel has been anti-encroachment action — halting illegal registrations and demolishing unauthorised colonies — to protect the notified footprint before compensation and handover can be finalised.

No official YEIDA notice confirming a completed award, a published compensation rate, or a final consolidated village/hectare count for Tappal-Bajna as a whole was found as of this research date. This page will be updated as fresh notifications, SIA reports, or award orders are published.