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District guide
Buying Land in North East Delhi
A dense, largely built-up district on the Yamuna: Karawal Nagar, Gokalpur, Yamuna Vihar and Shahdara, floodplain and unauthorised-colony limits, and where Delhi's farm belt really is.
4 (Dec 2025)
Sub-divisions
31
Revenue villages listed
6% / 4%
Stamp duty (men / women)
1,511 of 1,731
Colonies eligible for PM-UDAY (Delhi-wide)
District land record — North East Delhi
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Delhi (National Capital Territory, a Union Territory)
Sub-divisions
4 sub-divisions: Karawal Nagar · Gokalpur · Yamuna Vihar · Shahdara, with 31 revenue villages listed (Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025)
Key markets
Karawal Nagar · Mustafabad · Gokalpur · Mandoli · Saboli · Maujpur · Babarpur · Jafarabad (listed villages, not a sourced price market)
Agricultural land
Mostly built up and tightly packed, with the Yamuna floodplain (O-zone) on the river side; the Land Reforms Act text we opened has no residence bar, but little farmland is documented here and the working farm belt is in Outer North Delhi (confirm)
Demand anchors
Urban demand for colony plots · Delhi Metro, including the Phase 4 Majlis Park–Maujpur corridor (route map not opened)
Rail
No main-line station listed in the pages we opened; Delhi Metro, with the Phase 4 Majlis Park–Maujpur corridor (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 (colony plots) · ₹/acre (any agricultural parcel); no sourced price series for either
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.
North East 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)
North East Delhi — district-specific notes
The Delhi-wide legal framework on our Delhi state page applies to North East 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.
⚠ North East Delhi is one of 13 revenue districts notified in late December 2025; the Cabinet approved the reorganisation on 11 December (Tribune, Dec 2025) and the gazette is dated 25 December (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). It has four sub-divisions: Karawal Nagar with 14 villages, Gokalpur with 5, Yamuna Vihar with 6 and Shahdara with 6. Karawal Nagar lists Karawal Nagar, Mustafabad, Khajuri Khas, Sadatpur Gujran and Biharipur; Gokalpur lists Gokalpur, Mandoli, Saboli and Ziauddinpur; Yamuna Vihar lists Maujpur, Garhi Mandu and Khanpur Khani; Shahdara lists Babarpur, Jafarabad, Chandrawali Shadara and Oidenpuri. The list does not name Seelampur as a village. The Week/PTI reports that the earlier Shahdara district was merged into others (The Week/PTI, Dec 2025), so older articles use a different boundary. The sub-divisional offices page puts Karawal Nagar, Gokalpur and Shahdara at the DC Office Complex, Nand Nagri, and Yamuna Vihar near the DCP Office, North East Delhi (Revenue Department sub-divisional offices page).
⚠ 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; that copy stops around Section 75 and carries amendments only to 1965. Section 33 stops a bhumidhar from selling or gifting land if that leaves the seller with less than eight standard acres, a holder with less than that may transfer the whole holding, and Section 42 makes the buyer liable to ejectment under a transfer made in breach. Section 81, on non-farm use, was outside the part we could read. A Revenue Department notice invited suggestions on deleting Sections 33 and 81 (notice, comments due 24 June 2016), and we found nothing showing that change was made. Confirm the current text of the Act with a local advocate.
⚠ The Yamuna floodplain is the main land constraint on the river side of the district. Business Standard describes the O-zone as a floodplain area of about 9,700 hectares running from Wazirabad in north Delhi to Okhla, designated under the Delhi Master Plan 2021, and reports a Delhi High Court order of 26 May 2026 that colonies in the zone are not eligible for regularisation (Business Standard, Jun 2026); the article's own area figures are inconsistent, so treat the hectare figure as approximate. A Delhi High Court Division Bench held in December 2025 that no construction or residential occupation is allowed on the Yamuna floodplains (LiveLaw, Dec 2025). SANDRP reported in August 2026, before notification, a DDA plan to split the zone into O-1, with no construction, and O-2, with limited recreational uses (SANDRP, Aug 2026); we could not confirm what the notified plan says. The PM-UDAY colony scheme leaves out colonies on green zones such as the river bed (IANS, Apr 2026). Which of the 31 listed villages touch the zone is a DDA mapping question, because the revenue list gives no land use or boundary, so ask DDA for the zone map before assuming a parcel lies outside it.
⚠ Master Plan 2047 and pooling: DDA's FAQs say the plan is in force from 20 August 2026 and apply land pooling in Planning Zones K-I, L, N, P-II, part of J and part of P-I, with owners keeping up to 60% and a 20-hectare minimum for a scheme assembled from owners' land; low-density areas are excluded (DDA FAQs on MPD-2047). The FAQs name zones, not villages, so only DDA can say whether a North East Delhi village is inside one. On farmhouses the reports differ: the Housing Minister said no farm houses will be allowed in low-density areas (ThePrint/PTI, Aug 2026), and Outlook Money says the draft's one-acre norm is absent from the notified plan (Outlook Money, Aug 2026). We could not open the gazette copy, so get the zone and permitted use confirmed in writing from DDA.
⚠ Unauthorised colonies are the usual land product in a district this dense. PM-UDAY covers 1,511 of 1,731 unplanned colonies, as is where is, and left 220 out (IANS, Apr 2026); we did not find a list of the North East Delhi colonies, so check each one. 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). A plot in an eligible colony and a parcel of recorded agricultural land are different purchases.
⚠ 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.
- No residence bar found (confirm)
- Yamuna O-zone
- Unauthorised colonies
- Farmhouse norms in flux
- Farm belt is Outer North
District overview
North East Delhi — mostly built up, with the Yamuna floodplain on its river side
North East Delhi is not where a buyer of agricultural land should expect to find much farmland. The Revenue Department list gives the district 31 revenue villages in four sub-divisions, but it records no land use for any of them, and we found no source describing working farms there. The farm villages most people mean when they search for farmland in Delhi now sit in Outer North Delhi, around Narela, Bawana and Alipur. Delhi's net sown area fell from 34,034 hectares in 2000-01 to an estimated 22,300 hectares in 2018-19 (Delhi Economic Survey 2018-19). We found no area or population figure for the new boundary, so none is given here.
The administrative map is new. The Revenue Department list of 25 December 2025 groups North East Delhi into Karawal Nagar, Gokalpur, Yamuna Vihar and Shahdara sub-divisions (Revenue Department), and the district office's own page names the same four (District North East administrative setup). Karawal Nagar carries the most villages, among them Karawal Nagar, Mustafabad, Khajuri Khas, Sadatpur Gujran and Biharipur. Gokalpur carries Gokalpur, Mandoli, Saboli and Ziauddinpur, Yamuna Vihar carries Maujpur, Garhi Mandu and Khanpur Khani, and Shahdara carries Babarpur, Jafarabad and Chandrawali Shadara. The Week/PTI reports the reorganisation took effect immediately (The Week/PTI, Dec 2025).
Place names buyers search, such as Seelampur, do not all appear in the village list: Seelampur is not one of the 31 villages, and Shahdara is now a sub-division inside this district rather than a district of its own. These are long-urbanised localities and we found no source describing farmland in them, so this page does not treat them as farmland markets. The Yamuna runs along the river side of the district, and the O-zone is where the floodplain rules bite.
We found no sourced price series for land in any North East Delhi village and use no listing-site asks. The agricultural circle rate reported for Delhi is ₹53 lakh per acre since 2008, with a draft of up to ₹5 crore per acre that was not notified at December 2025 (The Realty Today, Dec 2025); the villages that report names as still agricultural include none from North East Delhi.
- Karawal Nagar
- Mustafabad
- Gokalpur
- Mandoli
- Saboli
- Maujpur
- Babarpur
- Jafarabad
- Yamuna O-zone
Transaction costs
Stamp duty & registration in North East 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 lists no separate rate for agricultural land and no district-specific rate, and we did not find 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.
For agricultural land, The Realty Today reported in December 2025 that Delhi's circle rate is a single ₹53 lakh per acre last revised in 2008, and that a draft would raise it to as much as ₹5 crore per acre in some locations, with no uniform rate across villages; it was a draft and not notified at that date (The Realty Today, Dec 2025). The same report quotes a Revenue Department estimate of more than 50,000 acres in over 200 villages still in agricultural use. 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 North East Delhi
Several small markets inside one district. No listing prices are used; where there is no dated source the notes say so.
Karawal Nagar sub-division: Karawal Nagar, Mustafabad and Khajuri Khas
No sourced price series
Fourteen villages are listed in Karawal Nagar sub-division, the largest in the district (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). We found no registered-rate, compensation or news price series for any of them and use no listing figure. The list records no land use, so a plot offered here may be a colony plot or recorded agricultural land.
Check: the colony's status on the PM-UDAY list, the khatauni class and the DDA zone of the khasra.
Gokalpur sub-division: Gokalpur, Mandoli and Saboli
No sourced price series
Five villages are listed: Gokalpur, Jeewanpur Johiripur, Mandoli, Saboli and Ziauddinpur (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). We found no price series or farming report for them, so we give no band.
Check: whether the parcel is recorded agricultural land and whether any part lies in the Yamuna zone.
Yamuna Vihar sub-division: Maujpur, Garhi Mandu and Khanpur Khani
No sourced price series
Six villages are listed, including Maujpur, Garhi Mandu, Khanpur Khani and the two Ghonda villages (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). Business Today lists Majlis Park–Maujpur among the Phase 4 Metro corridors (Business Today, Jul 2026); it gives no station list, so we do not tie any village to a station. We found no price series.
Check: the DDA zone and floodplain status, which a Metro line does not change.
Shahdara sub-division: Babarpur, Jafarabad and Oidenpuri
No sourced price series
Six villages are listed, among them Babarpur, Sakdarpur, Chandrawali Shadara, Jafarabad and Oidenpuri (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). Older articles file them under the former Shahdara district. We found no price series. For farmland, see our Outer North Delhi page, where The Realty Today names Narela-area villages still in agricultural use (The Realty Today, Dec 2025).
Check: which sub-division and Sub-Registrar now cover the village.
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, with no uniform rate across villages (The Realty Today, Dec 2025). The draft was not notified at that date.
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 colony plots per sq yd and any agricultural parcel per acre.
Connectivity
How North East Delhi connects — road, rail and air
North East Delhi is a dense Metro-and-road market. Distances are not stated where we could not source them; journey times vary with traffic.
By road
By air
By rail & metro
The practical questions for a North East Delhi parcel are where the floodplain boundary falls and whether the approach road is a public road. See the Delhi land rules guide and the Outer North Delhi page for the farm belt. Ring-road status comes from PMO, 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
02Policy or scheme stage
Agriculture & terrain
Terrain, crops & water in North East Delhi
A river-edge, densely built district: land here is valued for location, not crop income. Floodplain status matters more than soil.
🌊 The Yamuna floodplain edge
Business Standard places the O-zone between Wazirabad and Okhla (Business Standard, Jun 2026). Citizen Matters reported in May 2024 that many floodplain farmers are tenants on leased land, that the National Green Tribunal restricted floodplain farming in 2015 over pollution concerns, and that the draft Master Plan 2041 barred agriculture in both O-1 and O-2 (Citizen Matters, May 2024); it names no North East Delhi locality. We do not know how MPD-2047 treats cultivation, so do not assume floodplain land can be farmed, let alone built on.
- Floodplain
- O-zone
- Tenant farming
- NGT
🏘️ Built-up villages and colonies
The Revenue Department list names 31 villages and records no land use (Delhi Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025). A parcel here may be a colony plot, recorded agricultural land or floodplain, and each carries different rules. The list also shows how thin the farm record is: we found no source on crops, orchards or cattle in any of the 31.
- Karawal Nagar
- Mustafabad
- Gokalpur
- Shahdara
🌾 What is still farmed
Delhi's net sown area fell from 34,034 hectares in 2000-01 to an estimated 22,300 hectares in 2018-19 (Delhi Economic Survey 2018-19, agriculture chapter). The survey has no district-wise crop figures, so we cannot say what North East Delhi still grows.
- Net sown area
- Delhi-wide figures
- No district series
💧 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% (CGWB, Delhi groundwater assessment 2024). Its quality lists use old district names and do not mention North East; they list Shahdara for sporadic electrical conductivity above 3,000 µS/cm and fluoride above 1.5 mg/L, and the report does not say which villages that covers. Test borewell yield and quality before relying on a borewell.
📐 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, and farm income is a small part of what land here is bought for.
At a glance
North East Delhi vs. its neighbours
| District / belt | Land route / price band* | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| North East Delhi — Karawal Nagar, Gokalpur, Yamuna Vihar and Shahdara | No sourced price series | Largely built up with a floodplain edge; none of the Realty Today examples is in North East Delhi (The Realty Today, Dec 2025) |
| North Delhi — Burari, Adarsh Nagar, Badli | No sourced price series | Three sub-divisions and 24 villages; the O-zone starts at Wazirabad (Revenue Department list, 25 Dec 2025) |
| Outer North Delhi — Narela, Bawana, Alipur | No sourced price series | The true farm belt; villages named as still agricultural in a Dec 2025 report (The Realty Today, Dec 2025) |
| Ghaziabad side (Uttar Pradesh) | Not covered on this page | Uttar Pradesh route: separate state land law, not the Delhi Land Reforms Act |
This page quotes no listing prices. Delhi and Uttar Pradesh follow different land laws; see the North Delhi page and the Outer North Delhi page, where the farm belt is larger.
Farmland India view
Why investors look at North East Delhi
Five reasoned points and an honest note that North East Delhi is mostly not where Delhi's farmland is.
Know what you are buying
Most land offered as North East Delhi is likely to be a colony plot or a floodplain edge rather than farmland, and the revenue list does not say otherwise. A buyer who wants a working farm should read the Outer North Delhi page first. We have no demand data to put a number on North East Delhi.
A planning framework that is written down
MPD-2047 is in force from 20 August 2026 according to DDA's FAQs, and Business Today reports a ban on concrete structures in the core floodplain. That is clearer than before, though the gazette text and the zone map still need reading.
Floodplain rules protect as well as restrict
Courts are barring construction on the floodplain, so a price built on building potential there has no legal footing. A parcel clearly outside the zone avoids that risk.
Regularisation may settle some colony titles
PM-UDAY, whose SWAGAM portal opened on 24 April 2026, could give conveyance deeds to residents of eligible colonies. The reports leave out green zones such as the river bed and do not extend it to agricultural land.
Settle the route before the price
Ask for the khatauni, the DDA zone letter and the colony status before any advance. A colony plot and recorded agricultural land are different purchases.
Confirm land-record status, zoning, floodplain and sealing history for any parcel; our review is not a title guarantee.
STRAIGHT TALK
Risks & challenges in North East Delhi
Read these before shortlisting in North East Delhi specifically.
Yamuna O-zone and floodplain
The O-zone runs from Wazirabad to Okhla (Business Standard, Jun 2026), and the revenue list does not say which of the 31 villages touch it. A parcel inside it may not be buildable or regularisable. Ask DDA for the zone in writing.
Flooding
The Yamuna stood at 205.42 m at the Old Railway Bridge on 7 September 2025, above the 205.33 m danger mark, and residents of low-lying areas were moved to relief camps (AIR News, Sep 2025). The report names no North East Delhi locality.
Section 81 ejectment exposure
Using land recorded as agricultural for housing can lead to ejectment under Section 81, as the Delhi High Court upheld in August 2026 (Delhi High Court, 11 Aug 2026). Selling plots does not cure the record.
Unauthorised and ineligible colonies
PM-UDAY left out 220 colonies, including those on green zones and near monuments (IANS, Apr 2026), and the High Court has said O-zone colonies are not eligible for regularisation (Business Standard, Jun 2026). Check the colony on the list before paying.
Title and mutation
Co-owned holdings and unmutated inheritance can occur. Check the revenue record, mutation, the Section 33 position and any pending pooling or 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, the reports on farmhouse plots differ, and the Metro article gives no opening date for Majlis Park–Maujpur. Price a parcel on what the law allows today.
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 sub-divisional offices page lists Karawal Nagar, Gokalpur and Shahdara at the DC Office Complex, Nand Nagri, and Yamuna Vihar near the DCP Office, North East Delhi (Revenue Department sub-divisional offices page); the district office page names the same four sub-divisions (District North East administrative setup). 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 (North East).
Zoning and building permission sit with the Delhi Development Authority. Floodplain boundary questions also go to DDA; SANDRP reports that flood-line mapping involves CWPRS Pune and the Irrigation and Flood Control Department (SANDRP, Aug 2026). Fee schedules and procedures are on the Delhi Revenue Department registration page. Check the khatauni, 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 North East Delhi.
Visit full wiki01 of 04
Can I buy agricultural land in North East Delhi?
The India Code text of the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 has no residence bar in the sections we could read. Section 33 limits a sale that would leave the seller under eight standard acres, and in August 2026 the Delhi High Court upheld a Section 81 ejectment for non-farm use. Little farmland is documented in this district; the farm belt is in Outer North Delhi.
02 of 04
Which areas does North East Delhi cover now?
Four sub-divisions since the December 2025 reorganisation: Karawal Nagar, Gokalpur, Yamuna Vihar and Shahdara, with 31 revenue villages (Revenue Department list, 25 December 2025). Seelampur is not one of the listed villages, and the earlier Shahdara district was merged into others (The Week/PTI).
03 of 04
What does land cost in North East Delhi?
We found no sourced price series for land here and use no listing-site asks. The reported agricultural circle rate is ₹53 lakh per acre since 2008, with a draft of up to ₹5 crore per acre that was not notified at December 2025 (The Realty Today).
04 of 04
Can I buy or build on Yamuna floodplain land in North East Delhi?
A Delhi High Court Division Bench held in December 2025 that no construction or residence is allowed on the Yamuna floodplains (LiveLaw), and Business Today reports that MPD-2047 bans concrete structures in the core zone. Get the DDA zone for the khasra in writing before paying.
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Sources and references
Law and courts
- Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 (Sections 3, 33, 42), India Code text, opened October 2026
- Notice inviting suggestions on amending the Delhi Land Reforms Act, Revenue Department (comments due 24 Jun 2016)
- Delhi High Court, LPA 34/2024, judgment of 11 Aug 2026 (Section 81 ejectment)
- No construction or residence permissible on Yamuna floodplains, Delhi High Court, LiveLaw, 29 Dec 2025
- FEMA (Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India) Regulations, 2018, Reg 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
- District North East, administrative setup page, undated, opened October 2026
- Registration, stamp duty and fees, Delhi Revenue Department
- FAQs on MPD-2047, Delhi Development Authority (pooling terms; low-density plots)
- Economic Survey of Delhi 2018-19, chapter 10 Agriculture, Planning Department
- Dynamic Ground Water Resources of Delhi 2024, Central Ground Water Board
- PM to inaugurate highway projects in Delhi on 17 August, Prime Minister's Office
- Noida International Airport, press release, 15 Jun 2026
News
- Delhi now has 13 districts, The Week/PTI, 26 Dec 2025
- National capital gets two new districts, The Tribune, 12 Dec 2025
- Centre to regularise 1,511 colonies, IANS, 7 Apr 2026
- Delhi launches SWAGAM portal, Outlook Money, 25 Apr 2026
- Delhi plans major revision of agricultural land circle rates, The Realty Today, 19 Dec 2025
- Delhi Metro's biggest expansion, Business Today, 24 Jul 2026
Further reading
- MPD 2047 unveiled, ThePrint/PTI, 20 Aug 2026
- Delhi Master Plan 2047 notified, Outlook Money, 21 Aug 2026
- 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
- Yamuna Manthan Aug 2026: floodplains remain under threat, SANDRP, 13 Aug 2026
- The trials of being an urban farmer in Delhi's Yamuna floodplains, Citizen Matters, 2 May 2024
- Yamuna water level recedes but remains above danger mark, AIR News, 7 Sep 2025
- 70 Delhi villages open for commerce, The Tribune, 14 Aug 2026 (names six villages, none in North East Delhi)
Data-currency note: the district map reflects the notification of 25 December 2025 and may change; road, airport, Metro and policy 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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