The Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) has unleashed its boldest land drive yet — nearly 2,500 hectares to be seized for the New Nagpur Project and the long-delayed New Ring Road. This time, there are no half measures. An external agency has been roped in with sweeping powers: survey every plot, verify ownership, crush disputes, calculate compensation, and deliver land cleanly into NMRDA’s name.
The stakes are massive. New Nagpur — pitched as the city’s urban frontier with housing, industry, and infrastructure — demands seamless land consolidation. The New Ring Road, stuck for years, is the key to unclogging Nagpur’s choking arteries and connecting faster to highways of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Telangana. Without land, both visions are dead on arrival.
The agency’s brief is ruthless and total. From survey number-wise ownership checks and 7/12 scrutiny to valuing crops, trees, and wells — nothing is off the books. It must navigate revenue, irrigation, forest, and agriculture offices while staying shackled to the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, and MRTP provisions.
Targets are militaristic: 5% for land record prep, 10% for Collector’s proposals, 10% for site measurement, 15% for inter-departmental battles. Every step backed by videography, certified maps, and airtight panchnamas to shut down litigation. Villagers will face helpdesks, surveys, and hearings, with even SC/ST households and small farmers folded into a mandatory Resettlement & Rehabilitation plan.
But the real question looms: can this agency bulldoze through Nagpur’s land labyrinth, or will 2,500 hectares sink once again into the swamp of disputes and delays?
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