Tumakuru Industrial Smart City (CBIC Tumakuru Node): Master Plan, Phases & Land Use

What this page covers

This page covers the Tumakuru Industrial Township — also referred to as the CBIC Tumakuru Node, the Tumakuru Industrial Area, or the Tumakuru Industrial Smart City — being developed at Vasanthanarasapura under the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme. It is not the same body as "Tumakuru Smart City Limited," which is a separate city-retrofitting project for Tumakuru town run under the Government of India's Smart Cities Mission. The industrial township is planned and executed by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) together with the National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) and the National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT), through a joint-venture Special Purpose Vehicle.

Planning horizon and lead agencies

The Government of India, through NICDIT, and the Government of Karnataka, through KIADB, have taken up the development of the Industrial Township at Vasanthanarsapura, spread across 8500 acres in three phases in Tumakuru district through the project Special Purpose Vehicle. The project SPV, CBIC Tumakuru Industrial Township Limited, was incorporated on Nov 01, 2018 in India, and GoI accorded approval for the project on 30th December, 2020.

An earlier (2018) announcement had described a larger land pool: the government had identified a total of 9,629 acres of land in Vasanthanarasapura, Tumakuru which will be used for development of the node. The scope was later firmed up to the current ~8,483–8,500-acre township footprint that is now being master-planned and built out.

Total planned area vs. area developed so far

The full township footprint and the area actually under construction are two very different numbers, and should not be confused:

• Total planned area (all three phases): Detailed master planning and preliminary engineering activities of total project area of 8,483 Acre, have been completed. Separately, an official PIB release puts the overall node at 8500 acres — the figures are effectively the same site, rounded differently across documents.
• Area transferred to the SPV to date (as of 31 July 2025): State Govt. has transferred 1,668.30 Acre land to SPV and matching equity amounting to Rs. 586.74 Crore has been released.
• Priority/Phase-A development area: The Tumakuru node has been prioritized for development, with an area of 1736.20 acre being identified as the priority development area.

So, as of mid-2025, only roughly a fifth of the total planned township (around 1,668–1,736 acres out of ~8,483–8,500 acres) has land formally transferred to the SPV or is under active infrastructure construction; the remaining Phase-B and Phase-C land is still to be acquired, notified and developed.

Phasing

Tumakuru Industrial Township, part of the Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC), spans 8,484 acres and is being developed in three phases, with Phase-A covering 1,722 acres. Public documents give Phase-A's area as either 1,722 acres (NICDC) or 1,736.20 acres (PIB/CCEA) — the two figures are close and likely reflect minor boundary/survey adjustments over time.

Construction status on Phase-A: an EPC Contractor has been appointed in February, 2024 and construction of Major Bridges, Road & storm water drain, utility ducts, External Raw water pipeline & STP is in progress. Shri Narendra Modi, Hon'ble Prime Minister, laid the foundation stone of Tumakuru Industrial Township, Karnataka on 6th February, 2023.

Detailed hectare/year breakdowns for Phase-B and Phase-C beyond the priority Phase-A area have not been published in the sources reviewed; official material confirms a three-phase structure for the roughly 8,483–8,500-acre node but does not give firm target years or acreages for Phases B and C individually. An older (2012) KIADB estimate for the same broad Vasanthanarasapura site — from before the CBIC-scale expansion — had described a much smaller three-phase build-out: KIADB had proposed to develop a new industrial area at Vasantha Narasapura in Tumkur district in three phases: 782.22 acre for the first phase, 1,242.19 acre for the second phase and 1,492.16 acre for the third phase. That early phasing has since been superseded by the much larger CBIC-node plan described above.

Land use

No numeric land-use percentage split (e.g., X% industrial, Y% residential) has been published for the Tumakuru node in the documents reviewed. What is confirmed is the mix of uses planned: the project will be a mixed-use development comprising land uses like industrial, institutional, residential, commercial, green spaces etc., making it a completely self-sustainable and resilient smart industrial city. Investors and residents should treat any percentage land-use figures found elsewhere online for this project as unverified until KIADB or NICDC publishes a zoning/land-use table.

Population and employment targets

No official residential population target for the Tumakuru node has been published in the sources reviewed. Employment and investment targets, however, have been stated at two different scales:

• Phase-A only: the Phase-A of the project is expected to generate employment opportunities for approximately 88,000 people and attract investment of around Rs. 7,000 crore over a period of 5–6 years.
• Full node (2018 estimate, all phases): the proposed investment of Tumakuru Node will be around Rs 50,000 crore with an employment potential of 2,20,000 persons.

These are planning-stage targets tied to eventual full build-out and industry allotment, not guaranteed outcomes.

Planner / consultant

Central technical assistance for CBIC nodes, including Tumakuru, was initially routed through the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC), which has been nominated by Government of India as a nodal agency to give the technical assistance for the development of these nodes. On the ground, KIADB is the state executing agency, and a project-specific SPV (CBIC Tumakuru Industrial Township Limited) manages implementation. For the Phase-A activation area, an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) tender for Phase 1 activation area has been issued, and a Project Management Consultant (PMC) has been appointed — the named firm has not been disclosed in the public sources checked. KIADB has also separately invited empanelment of architecture, structural engineering and town-planning consultants for its projects generally, which may include future Tumakuru work.

Where to find the official documents

No single consolidated "master plan PDF" for the Tumakuru node was locatable as a direct public download at the time of research (July 2026). The most authoritative places to check are:

• NICDC's project page for the Tumakuru Industrial Area (progress notes, phase details, investment data)
• The Press Information Bureau (PIB) release on the Prime Minister's foundation-stone visit, which carries the most detailed official Phase-A figures
• KIADB's official website and downloads section, for tenders, empanelment notices and any layout/zonal plans specific to Vasanthanarasapura
• NICDC's periodic Development/Monitoring Unit (DMU) status reports, which track land transfer, equity release and construction progress across all NICDC nodes including Tumakuru

Note: the separate Tumakuru Smart City Limited website (under the Smart Cities Mission) covers city-area retrofitting projects, not this industrial township, and should not be confused with the CBIC/NICDC master plan.