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District guide
Buying Land in New Delhi
The capital's administrative core: why New Delhi is not a farmland market, NDMC leasehold and cantonment land, the Land Reforms Act, and where to look instead.
2 (Dec 2025)
Sub-divisions
5
Revenue villages listed
6% / 4%
Stamp duty (men / women)
None found
Sourced farmland price series
District land record — New Delhi
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Delhi (National Capital Territory, a Union Territory)
Sub-divisions
2 sub-divisions: New Delhi · Delhi Cantt, with 5 revenue villages listed, all in Delhi Cantt (Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025)
Key markets
Built-up capital core, NDMC area and cantonment: Delhi Cantt villages Naraina · Basant Nagar · Nangal Raya · Muradabad Pahari · Jadid Chhawni
Agricultural land
None that we could source: the sub-division named New Delhi lists no revenue village, and the Land Reforms Act text we opened excludes areas within a municipality or cantonment (confirm)
Demand anchors
Government, diplomatic and heritage core; Lutyens' Bungalow Zone height controls (ThePrint/PTI, Aug 2026) · Delhi Metro (DMRC route map not opened)
Rail
No main-line station listed in the pages we opened; Delhi Metro, where Business Today says new interchanges will connect Central Secretariat to peripheral areas (Business Today, Jul 2026)
Size and population
No area or population figure was published for the new boundary in the pages we opened; Census figures for the old district are not used
Pricing unit
₹/sq yd or sq m (built and leasehold plots); no sourced price series, and no agricultural land to price
Local units
1 acre = 4,840 sq yd = about 4,047 sq m; papers mix acres, sq yd and sq ft, so convert from the revenue record
Land records portal
Delhi Revenue Department (registration and fee page)
Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Delhi page and apply to every district within it.
New Delhi — land purchase legal rules
⚠ Three layers of control apply to Delhi farm land at once: the Land Reforms Act, the Master Plan and DDA zoning. Check the land record, the Master Plan zone and the floodplain and Ridge position before you pay anything.
Who can buy agricultural land? The Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 (DLR Act) puts its main limits on the seller and on use rather than on the buyer, and we found no bar by domicile in the sources we could open. Section 33 restricts transfers by a landholder that would fragment the holding. The Revenue Department's notice inviting amendment suggestions (undated; comments were due 24 June 2016) called Section 33 outdated and proposed deleting it, but those were proposals. We have not read the current Act text, so ask the sub-registrar or the Revenue Department what applies to the seller's holding before any token payment.
Use of agricultural land (Section 81): Under the DLR Act a landholder who puts agricultural land to non-agricultural use is liable to ejectment, as the same Revenue Department notice describes. A house, event venue or "farmhouse" on land still recorded as agricultural therefore carries legal risk, whatever a broker calls the plot. The notice proposed replacing Sections 81 and 82 with a conversion permission, and we found no evidence that this was enacted.
Fragmentation and title: Many Delhi holdings are small, co-owned, or still in a deceased owner's name. Ask for the current revenue record, the mutation status and proof that the seller can transfer the whole holding.
Master Plan zoning decides what can be built: The Master Plan for Delhi 2047 (MPD-2047) replaces MPD-2021. DDA approved it on 12 August 2026 (Tribune, August 2026), and ThePrint reported it as notified by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on 20 August 2026. Farmhouse rules are the unsettled part. ThePrint quoted the Housing Minister as saying no farm houses will be allowed in low-density areas, while Outlook Money, August 2026 reported that the draft one-acre norm is absent from the final gazette. Treat the rules as restrictive and still under debate. We could not open the gazette copy, so ask DDA for the zone and permitted use of the plot in writing.
Land pooling: MPD-2047 marks nearly 200 sq km for land pooling and expects about 12 lakh homes from it, according to Outlook Money, August 2026. A village inside a pooling zone may be taken into a DDA-led scheme instead of staying farm land. Ask DDA whether the plot falls in one.
Yamuna floodplain, Ridge and heritage areas: The plan bars concrete structures in the core of the Yamuna O-zone (Business Today, August 2026) and aims to preserve about 180 sq km of floodplain and Ridge (ThePrint, August 2026). About 9,700 ha was declared O-zone under MPD-2021, and the High Court ruled on 26 May 2026 against regularising O-zone colonies (Business Standard, June 2026). The NGT has been monitoring encroachment on the floodplain (NGT order, February 2025). We have not sourced the legal limits around the Ridge, Asola Bhatti or the Mehrauli monuments, so ask DDA, the Forest Department and ASI for written positions on any plot near them. Stay out of the floodplain altogether.
Unauthorised colonies: Delhi opened the SWAGAM portal on 24 April 2026 to register land in 1,511 unauthorised colonies under PM-UDAY, on an as-is-where-is basis, as Outlook Money reported in April 2026. The O-zone and Sainik Farms are excluded from that policy under the High Court order (Business Standard, June 2026). A plot sold as "regularised" needs the regularisation certificate in hand.
NRI & OCI buyers: Under the 2018 FEMA regulations on immovable property (RBI, Regulation 3(a)), NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land, plantation land or a farm house anywhere in India, Delhi included. They may buy residential or commercial land, subject to zoning.
- Buyer eligibility: confirm
- DLR Act Sec 33: transfer limits
- Sec 81: use ejectment
- MPD-2047 zoning
- Floodplain, Ridge: avoid
- Land pooling zones
- NRI agri: barred (FEMA)
New Delhi — district-specific notes
The Delhi-wide legal framework on our Delhi state page applies to New Delhi in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page. Law and policy as read in October 2026; the MPD-2047 gazette copy could not be opened, so confirm that part with a local advocate.
⚠ New Delhi is one of 13 revenue districts notified in late December 2025; the Cabinet approved the change on 11 December (Tribune, Dec 2025) and The Week/PTI reported that it took effect immediately (The Week/PTI, Dec 2025). The Revenue Department list gives it two sub-divisions: Delhi Cantt (Jadid Chhawni, Basant Nagar, Muradabad Pahari, Nangal Raya, Naraina) and New Delhi, against which it lists no revenue village (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). Both sub-divisional offices are listed at 12/1, Jam Nagar House, New Delhi-110011 (Revenue Department sub-divisional offices page). We found no area or population figure for the new boundary.
⚠ Who can buy: the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, in the India Code copy we opened (India Code text), has no residence or domicile bar in the sections we could read, and the copy may not reflect later amendments. Section 1 says the Act does not apply to areas within a municipality, notified area or cantonment, Section 33 stops a bhumidhar from transferring land if that leaves the seller with less than eight standard acres, and Section 42 exposes the buyer to ejectment after a transfer made in breach. In August 2026 the Delhi High Court upheld a Section 81 ejectment over an unauthorised colony on recorded agricultural land in village Goela Khurd and held that such land stays under the Act until a Section 507(a) notification takes it out of the rural area (Delhi High Court, 11 Aug 2026). For most of New Delhi that question does not arise, because the text excludes areas within a municipality or cantonment; the Delhi Cantt villages are the ones to check against the record. Confirm the current text of the Act with a local advocate.
⚠ NDMC area and leasehold land: the New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 extends to New Delhi (NDMC Act, Chapter I). NDMC's Estate Department II says it manages leases of markets transferred by the Land and Development Office and handles substitution, mutation, sale and mortgage permissions, conversion from leasehold to freehold and change of land use from residential to commercial (NDMC Estate Department II). Land in the NDMC area is therefore commonly leasehold, and a sale needs the lessor's permission. We did not open any NDMC rate or lease document, so ask the lessor for the lease deed and the permission trail.
⚠ Cantonment and defence land: in a Delhi High Court order of 4 November 2025 a resident of Old Nangal challenged a Cantonment Board demolition notice under Section 320 of the Cantonments Act, 2006; the Board said the construction was on defence land, the court did not decide that, and it allowed a regularisation application with no coercive action while it was pending (Delhi High Court, 4 Nov 2025). A buyer of land in the Delhi Cantt villages should ask the Cantonment Board for the land's status and treat any building without Board sanction as at risk.
⚠ Heritage and height: ThePrint reports that MPD-2047 removed height norms citywide except in areas such as the Lutyens' Bungalow Zone, the Civil Lines Bungalow Area and Connaught Place and its extension (ThePrint/PTI, Aug 2026), and NewsBytes reports that the plan restricts high-intensity development along metro corridors in the Bungalow Zone and Civil Lines Bungalow Area (NewsBytes, Aug 2026). We could not open the gazette copy, so get the zone and permitted use confirmed in writing from DDA or NDMC as the area requires.
⚠ NRIs and OCIs may acquire immovable land or buildings in India other than agricultural land, a farm house or plantation land under Regulation 3(a) of the FEMA acquisition rules (RBI, FEMA 21(R)/2018-RB, Reg 3(a)). Our Delhi state page covers the other limits, such as SC/ST and forest land.
Read the Delhi land buying guide for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and NRI rules.
- Capital core
- No sourced price series
- NDMC leasehold land
- Cantonment land
- No residence bar found (confirm)
District overview
New Delhi — the capital's administrative core, so a short note on why it is not a farmland market
New Delhi is, for a buyer of agricultural land, the end of the list, and it is better to say so plainly. It is the capital's administrative core, with two sub-divisions, New Delhi and Delhi Cantt, and the Revenue Department lists only five revenue villages, all in Delhi Cantt (Revenue Department). We found no crop data, no area or population figure for the new boundary and no sourced price for agricultural land.
Delhi Cantt carries Jadid Chhawni, Basant Nagar, Muradabad Pahari, Nangal Raya and Naraina. The sub-division named New Delhi has no revenue village against it in the list. The Week/PTI reported that the reorganisation took effect immediately (The Week/PTI, Dec 2025). Much of the district is governed by the New Delhi Municipal Council and the Cantonment Board rather than the village-estate structure the Land Reforms Act is built around.
What a buyer can do here is narrow. NDMC's Estate Department II handles leasehold land, including conversion to freehold and change of land use (NDMC Estate Department II), and cantonment land carries its own demolition and regularisation rules (Delhi High Court, Nov 2025). Anyone shown "farmland in New Delhi" should ask which of four things it is: a leasehold plot, cantonment land, a share of a village estate that is already built over, or an agricultural record that no longer matches use on the ground.
Where to look instead: for agricultural land inside the capital, read the South West Delhi page (Najafgarh and Matiala sub-divisions) and the Outer North Delhi page (Narela, Bawana and Alipur). For a farmhouse inside Delhi, read the South Delhi page, and for clearer rules next door the Gurugram page covers the Haryana route. New Delhi has no micro-market pages of its own on this site.
- New Delhi
- Delhi Cantt
- Naraina
- Basant Nagar
- Nangal Raya
- Muradabad Pahari
- Jadid Chhawni
- NDMC
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in New Delhi
6%
Stamp duty — male buyer
of the higher of the deal value or the circle rate (Revenue Department)
4%
Stamp duty — female buyer
same basis (Revenue Department)
1%
Registration fee
plus ₹100 pasting fee (Revenue Department)
The Delhi Revenue Department's registration page sets stamp duty on sale, conveyance and gift deeds at 6% for a male buyer and 4% for a female buyer, charged on the consideration or the circle rate, whichever is higher, and a registration fee of 1% on the same basis plus ₹100 (Delhi Revenue Department). The page makes no statement on agricultural land, and we did not find separate rates for NDMC or Cantonment areas. On registration offices, The Week/PTI reported in December 2025 that the existing 22 sub-registrar offices would expand to 39 under a separate notification (The Week/PTI, Dec 2025), so confirm which Sub-Registrar covers the village.
Delhi circle rates are applied by the area and use of the land, and we could not open a notified rate table for New Delhi, so this page gives no per-area figure. For agricultural land, The Realty Today reported in December 2025 a single circle rate of ₹53 lakh per acre last revised in 2008, a draft of up to ₹5 crore per acre in some locations, and a Revenue Department estimate of more than 50,000 acres in over 200 villages still in agricultural use; the draft was not notified at that date (The Realty Today, Dec 2025). Realty Today is a trade outlet and we found no notified 2026 rate, so get any figure in writing from the Sub-Registrar. Conversion or change of land use is a separate approval, not a stamp-duty line.
Know the belt
What is moving prices in New Delhi
An administrative core with a handful of cantonment village estates. No listing prices are used; where there is no dated source the notes say so.
Delhi Cantt sub-division (Naraina, Basant Nagar, Nangal Raya)
No sourced price series
These villages are listed in Delhi Cantt sub-division (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). We found no registered-rate, compensation or news price series for land in any of them and use no listing figure.
Check: whether the land is cantonment land, a colony plot or a village abadi, and who sanctions building.
Muradabad Pahari and Jadid Chhawni
No sourced price series
Both are listed in Delhi Cantt sub-division (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). We found no price series for either.
Check: the Cantonment Board's record of the land's status and the sanction history.
NDMC leasehold land
No sourced price series
NDMC's Estate Department II handles conversion from leasehold to freehold, change of land use and sale permissions for leased land (NDMC Estate Department II). We found no sourced price series, and the page gives no fees.
Check: the lease deed, the lessor's permission and any conversion charge before an advance.
New Delhi sub-division
No revenue village listed
The Revenue Department list shows no revenue village against the sub-division named New Delhi (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025), so there is no village-level agricultural record to price.
Check: that any seller of "agricultural" land in this sub-division can produce a khatauni.
Circle rates to check
₹53 lakh per acre (2008, reported) vs draft up to ₹5 crore
The Realty Today reported in December 2025 a single agricultural rate of ₹53 lakh per acre since 2008 and a draft of up to ₹5 crore per acre, not notified at that date (The Realty Today, Dec 2025). The villages it names as still agricultural include none from New Delhi, though its list is partial.
Check: the current rate for the village with the Sub-Registrar before computing stamp duty.
Units: acre, sq yd, sq m
Delhi papers and sale deeds use acres, sq yd, sq ft and sq m interchangeably. Convert from the revenue record before comparing two documents (1 acre = 4,840 sq yd = about 4,047 sq m). This page quotes agricultural land per acre and built plots per sq yd.
Connectivity
How New Delhi connects — road, rail and air
A dense Metro-and-road capital core. Distances are not stated where we could not source them; journey times vary with traffic.
By road
By air
By rail & metro
The practical question for a New Delhi plot is the lease or cantonment status, then the zone and the last mile. See the Delhi land rules guide and the neighbouring Gurugram page for the Haryana side. Road status comes from Business Today, Aug 2025, airport status from Noida International Airport, Jun 2026 and Metro status from Business Today, Jul 2026. We did not open DMRC or NHAI pages.
Growth catalysts
Upcoming infrastructure & developments
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Government-announced timelines are not guaranteed; items marked confirm have single or conflicting sources.
01Notified
02Court or process stage
Agriculture & terrain
Terrain, crops & water in New Delhi
A built-up administrative core with no sourced crop data: lease terms, cantonment status and zone controls matter more than soil.
🏛️ NDMC area and the Bungalow Zone
ThePrint names the Lutyens' Bungalow Zone, the Civil Lines Bungalow Area and Connaught Place and its extension as areas where height norms were not removed (ThePrint/PTI, Aug 2026). There is no sourced crop or soil description for this core, and land class matters less than lease terms and zone controls.
- NDMC
- Bungalow Zone
- Leasehold
- Height controls
🪖 Cantonment and village estates
The Revenue Department lists Naraina, Basant Nagar, Nangal Raya, Muradabad Pahari and Jadid Chhawni in Delhi Cantt sub-division (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). These are old estates inside the built-up city, and the High Court order on Old Nangal shows that status can be contested (Delhi High Court, Nov 2025).
- Delhi Cantt
- Defence land
- Village estates
🌾 Where the farms are
A December 2025 report on the draft circle-rate revision names Najafgarh, Bijwasan and Dhichau Kalan in South West Delhi and Tigipur, Khampur, Hamidpur, Jhangola, Bankner, Bhorgarh, Lampur and Bakhtawarpur among villages still in agricultural use, as a partial list (The Realty Today, Dec 2025). A buyer after cropland should read the South West Delhi and Outer North Delhi pages, not this one.
- Najafgarh
- Narela
- Bawana
💧 Water & rainfall
Rainfall figures are not quoted here because we found no district series. CGWB's 2024 assessment puts Delhi's stage of groundwater extraction at 100.77%, with 14 of 34 assessment units over-exploited, 13 critical, 2 semi-critical and 5 safe (CGWB, Delhi groundwater assessment 2024). Its district tables flag fluoride above 1.5 mg/L and nitrate above 45 mg/L at sporadic locations in New Delhi on the old district boundary; the flags are location exceedances, not district averages. The report gives no block table in the part we could read, so check the latest category for the block and test borewell yield and quality.
📐 Measurement units & market prices
Convert every area to acres or sq m from the revenue record (1 acre = 4,840 sq yd = about 4,047 sq m). We quote no crop prices because we found no sourced district series.
At a glance
New Delhi vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Land route / price band* | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| New Delhi — Delhi Cantt villages | No sourced price series | Built-up; five revenue villages listed, all in Delhi Cantt (Revenue Department, Dec 2025) |
| South Delhi — Chhatarpur, Sultanpur | No sourced price series | The capital's farmhouse belt, with its own Ridge and sealing checks |
| South West Delhi — Najafgarh | No sourced price series | Named as still agricultural in a Dec 2025 report (The Realty Today, Dec 2025) |
| Gurugram | See the Gurugram page | Haryana route: change of land use and farmhouse policy, not the Delhi Land Reforms Act |
This page quotes no listing prices. Delhi and Haryana follow different land laws; see the Gurugram page and the South West Delhi page, where the farm belt is larger.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at New Delhi
Five reasoned points and an honest note on what this district is and is not.
A capital address, not a farm
New Delhi's draw is its place in the administrative core. We have no demand data to put a number on it, and there is no agricultural land here to price.
Lease and zone rules are explicit
NDMC publishes how leases, conversion and land-use change are handled, and MPD-2047 keeps height controls in the Bungalow Zone. That clarity cuts against speculation.
Scarcity is regulatory
Height exceptions, lease terms and cantonment control limit what can change hands. Scarcity helps only when the lessor's permission, the sanction and the land status are clear.
Not a pooling district on our sources
DDA names no New Delhi village in a pooling sector, so pooling returns are not a reason to buy here.
Settle the route before the price
Ask for the lease deed, the zone letter, the sanction and the Cantonment Board record where relevant before any advance. For agricultural land, start with the outer districts.
Confirm lease or land-record status, zoning and cantonment status for any parcel; our review is not a title guarantee.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in New Delhi
Read these before shortlisting in New Delhi specifically.
Defence and cantonment land
The Delhi High Court order of 4 November 2025 records a Board submission that a building stood on defence land (Delhi High Court, Nov 2025). Ask the Cantonment Board for the land's status before any advance.
Leasehold and lessor permission
Land in the NDMC area is commonly leasehold, and sale, mortgage and conversion need permission. Without it a deed may not be enforceable against the lessor.
Heritage and height controls
Height norms stay in the Bungalow Zone and a few other areas, so a plot's buildable height may be lower than adjacent districts. Get the zone and height limit in writing.
Section 81 and rural-land status
Where a village estate is covered by the Delhi Land Reforms Act, using recorded agricultural land for a building can lead to ejectment, as the Delhi High Court held in August 2026. Whether the Act applies in a given village is a record question.
Title and mutation
Old village estates in Delhi Cantt can have co-owned holdings and unmutated inheritance. Check the revenue record, mutation, the Section 33 position and any acquisition notice before payment.
Price opacity
We found no sourced price series. The reported agricultural circle rate is ₹53 lakh per acre, with a draft of up to ₹5 crore per acre (Dec 2025 report). Do not budget stamp duty on a number you have not confirmed in writing.
Announced is not delivered
The MPD-2047 gazette copy was not available to us and Metro corridors are named without station detail. Price a plot on what the law allows today, not on a plan.
Who to contact
Local revenue, planning & forest offices
Land-record and mutation matters go through the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and Tehsildar of the sub-division. The Revenue Department lists the Delhi Cantt and New Delhi sub-divisions at 12/1, Jam Nagar House, New Delhi-110011 (Revenue Department sub-divisional offices page). Sale-deed registration is handled by the Sub-Registrar; the existing 22 sub-registrar offices were due to expand to 39 (The Week/PTI, Dec 2025), so confirm which office covers the village. District-level orders sit with the District Magistrate (New Delhi).
Lease, mutation and land-use questions in the NDMC area sit with NDMC's Estate Department II (NDMC Estate Department II); cantonment land with the Delhi Cantonment Board; zoning and building permission with the Delhi Development Authority. Fee schedules and procedures are on the Delhi Revenue Department registration page. Check the khatauni or lease deed, mutation and encumbrance before paying any token amount.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything buyers, NRIs and investors ask before their first reviewed farmland purchase in New Delhi.
Visit full wiki01 of 04
Is there agricultural land in New Delhi?
None that we could source. The Revenue Department list of 25 December 2025 gives New Delhi two sub-divisions, New Delhi and Delhi Cantt, and lists five revenue villages, all in Delhi Cantt. We found no crop data or price series. Check any plot sold as farmland against the khatauni.
02 of 04
Which areas are in New Delhi now?
Two sub-divisions: New Delhi, with no revenue village listed, and Delhi Cantt, with Jadid Chhawni, Basant Nagar, Muradabad Pahari, Nangal Raya and Naraina. Both offices are listed at Jam Nagar House.
03 of 04
Can I buy agricultural land in New Delhi?
The India Code text of the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 has no residence bar in the sections we could read, and Section 1 excludes areas within a municipality, notified area or cantonment. NDMC-area land is commonly leasehold, and a sale needs the lessor's permission. Confirm the current Act and the record before paying.
04 of 04
Where should I look for farmland near New Delhi?
A December 2025 report on the draft circle-rate revision names villages in Najafgarh (South West Delhi) and on the Narela side of Outer North Delhi among those still in agricultural use. Haryana districts such as Gurugram follow a change-of-land-use route.
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Sources and references
Law and courts
- Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 (Sections 1, 33, 42), India Code copy, opened October 2026
- Delhi High Court, LPA 34/2024, judgment of 11 Aug 2026 (Section 81, Section 507(a) notification)
- Delhi High Court, W.P.(C) 16736/2025, order of 4 Nov 2025 (Cantonment Board demolition notice)
- New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994, Chapter I, NDMC website
- FEMA 21(R)/2018-RB, acquisition of immovable land by NRIs and OCIs, Regulation 3(a), Reserve Bank of India
Government
- Delhi Revenue Department, list of districts, sub-divisions and villages, 25 Dec 2025
- Delhi Revenue Department, sub-divisional offices page, opened October 2026
- Registration page, Delhi Revenue Department: stamp duty and fees
- FAQs on MPD-2047, Delhi Development Authority (pooling zones, redevelopment, heritage areas)
- Economic Survey of Delhi 2018-19, chapter 10 Agriculture, Planning Department
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Delhi 2024, Central Ground Water Board
- Estate Department II, New Delhi Municipal Council
- Noida International Airport, press release, 15 Jun 2026
News
- National capital gets two new districts, The Tribune, 12 Dec 2025
- Delhi now has 13 districts, The Week/PTI, 26 Dec 2025
- MPD 2047 unveiled, ThePrint/PTI, 20 Aug 2026
- Master Plan 2047 protects Lutyens, walled city, Civil Lines, NewsBytes, 20 Aug 2026
- Delhi plans major revision of agricultural land circle rates, The Realty Today, 19 Dec 2025
Further reading
- Delhi Master Plan 2047 notified, Outlook Money, 21 Aug 2026
- Delhi Metro's biggest expansion, Business Today, 24 Jul 2026
- Noida to Delhi airport in 20 minutes, Business Today, 16 Aug 2025
- Delhi Master Plan 2047 gets DDA nod, Business Today, 13 Aug 2026
- Delhi O-zone: why homes on Yamuna floodplain face uncertainty, Business Standard, 26 Jun 2026
- Who owns the Yamuna floodplain: migrant farmers, landlords or the DDA, India Water Portal, 31 Oct 2025
- The trials of being an urban farmer in Delhi's Yamuna floodplains, Citizen Matters, 2 May 2024
- They say there are no farmers in Delhi, People's Archive of Rural India, 12 Mar 2019
Data-currency note: the district map reflects the notification of 25 December 2025 and may change; planning, court and Metro statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly. Where an official page did not open for us (the MPD-2047 gazette copy, DMRC and NHAI pages), we say so in the text. This is a general guide, not legal advice. Report inaccuracies to wiki@farmlandindia.com.
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