Terra Grande Rishikesh Hills by Eldeco
Narendra Nagar, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand

District guide
Uttarakhand's lake district: no outsider purchase of agricultural land under the 2025 Act, a 250 sq m residential affidavit route, Tehri Lake, Dhanaulti and Chamba, river and slope checks, and a rail line targeted for December 2029.
~72 km
Rishikesh railway station
~6.2 lakh
Population (Census 2011)
None sourced
Price series
78% complete, target Dec 2029
Rishikesh–Karnaprayag rail
*Indicative range across districts and land types. Stamp duty, registration and conversion charges are additional. Local measurement units vary — every listing states the unit it is priced in. Not a valuation or an offer.
Bhulekh UK — Uttarakhand Land Records PortalDistrict land record — Tehri Garhwal
Rev. 2026 · Farmland India desk
State
Uttarakhand
Administration
New Tehri (headquarters) · 7 tehsils and 9 development blocks in the MSME-DI profile (MSME-DI profile)
Key markets
New Tehri · Narendra Nagar · Chamba · Dhanaulti · Kanatal · Devprayag
Demand anchors
Tehri Lake and reservoir tourism · Rishikesh and Dehradun weekend reach · Char Dham road · Mussoorie–Dhanaulti hill belt
Rail
No station in the district yet; the Rishikesh–Karnaprayag line (under construction) connects towns including Devprayag (Railway Technology)
Size and population
About 6.2 lakh people at the 2011 Census (6,16,409 in the MSME-DI profile); area figures differ inside that profile (3,642 and 4,421 sq km), so none is given here
Pricing unit
₹/sq yd (hill plots) · ₹/acre (larger parcels) · nali is the local hill unit
Local units
Nali: Farmland India uses 240 sq yd (about 200 sq m) as a working figure, but a nali varies by locality, so take the area from the khatauni · 1 acre = 4,840 sq yd
Land records portal
Bhulekh Uttarakhand (state land-records portal); Tehsildar office for certified copies
Land law is state law. These rules are maintained on the Uttarakhand page and apply to every district within it.
⚠ Uttarakhand limits who can buy agricultural and horticultural land. Check who you are, which district the land is in, and how it is recorded before anything else.
Who can buy agricultural land? Since 1 May 2025, a person who does not already hold land in Uttarakhand can buy agricultural or horticultural land only in Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar, and only with prior sanction from the state government (Uttarakhand Act 11 of 2025). Press coverage describes this as a bar in 11 of the 13 districts (Scroll, February 2025); the Act names the two districts and does not count the rest. Buying through a nominee is a compliance risk, and a transfer made on a false affidavit is void under the Act.
The 2025 land law amendment: The Assembly passed the bill on 21 February 2025 (Scroll, February 2025). The Governor gave assent on 30 April 2025, and the Act was notified and took effect on 1 May 2025 (Act text; PTI via The Week, May 2025). The power to allow purchases moved from the District Magistrate to the state government (Business Standard, February 2025). The Chief Minister said land bought on false declarations can vest in the state, and cited 1,883 approvals since 2018 with 599 violations found (Scroll, February 2025).
Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar: These are the only districts where sanction for such a purchase is possible, and sanction is not automatic. The buyer gives an affidavit that the land will be used only for the stated agricultural or horticultural purpose and must put it to that use within three years or an extended period; a change of use makes the transfer void (Act text). The general power to allow transfers above the ceiling, earlier reported as 12.5 acres, is now confined to these two districts and sits with the state government, which acts on an essentiality certificate (Act text; Business Standard, February 2025). Ask the revenue department which office takes sanction applications before paying a token amount.
Residential land for non-residents: The Act lets a buyer file an affidavit that neither he nor his family has bought more than 250 sq m of land elsewhere in the state for residential use; a false affidavit voids the transfer (Act text; Scroll, February 2025). The text we read does not settle whether 250 sq m is a lifetime count across the family, or how the rule works inside municipal limits, which the Act's extent clause excludes, so take both questions to the Sub-Registrar in writing.
Land-use declaration (Section 143): Section 143 of the parent Act (UP Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950) deals with declaring agricultural land for other uses, such as a house or farmhouse. We have not re-read the section for this edition, so ask the Sub-Divisional Magistrate which declaration applies before building. Check the land's classification in the khatauni, not in the seller's brochure.
Forest, van panchayat and eco-sensitive land: Land recorded as forest cannot be freely sold or converted, and land near Corbett, Rajaji and other protected areas can fall inside an eco-sensitive zone with construction limits. In November 2025 the Supreme Court directed that zones around tiger reserves be notified within a year (The Week/PTI, November 2025). A plot that looks like farmland can be recorded differently, so ask for the revenue record and the forest position in writing.
NRI & OCI buyers: FEMA 1999 bars NRIs and OCIs from buying agricultural land, plantation land or farmhouse land anywhere in India, Uttarakhand included. That is a central rule, not a state one, and the state Act adds its own conditions on top; read the current RBI notification for the exact wording.
The full Uttarakhand legal framework above applies to Tehri Garhwal in full. The notes below are specific to this district and are not repeated from the state page.
⚠ Agricultural land in Tehri Garhwal is not open to a person who does not already hold land in Uttarakhand. Since 1 May 2025 the Act allows such a purchase only in Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar, with prior state sanction (Uttarakhand Act 11 of 2025), and Tehri Garhwal is one of the other 11 districts. Press coverage describes this as a bar in 11 of 13 districts (Scroll, February 2025).
⚠ For residential use, the Act lets a buyer file an affidavit that neither he nor his family has bought more than 250 sq m of land elsewhere in the state; a false affidavit voids the transfer (Act text; Scroll, February 2025). The text we read does not settle whether the 250 sq m is a lifetime count or how it works inside municipal limits, so put both questions to the Sub-Registrar in writing.
⚠ For larger buyers, the general power to allow transfers above the ceiling, earlier reported as 12.5 acres, is now confined to Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar and sits with the state government (Act text; Business Standard, February 2025). National Herald, March 2025 argues that leases of up to 12.5 acres for institutions remain; that reading is not in the Act text we read, so do not plan a hotel or resort assembly on it without written legal advice.
⚠ NRIs and OCIs cannot buy agricultural land, plantation land or a farm house under RBI rules, so for them the district is closed whatever the state law says (RBI Master Direction; FEMA 21(R)/2018-RB).
⚠ Hill land needs classification checks that the plains do not. Ask for the khasra and khatauni to show whether a parcel is private land or forest, van panchayat or other community land, and have the boundary checked on the ground. Tehri Lake and the Bhagirathi valley also matter: a verbal ban on construction within 200 m of rivers was announced after the 2013 floods, and an official said it was not yet a written order (Down To Earth, July 2013). We found no written order, so ask the Revenue and Irrigation departments for a parcel-specific answer near any river or the reservoir edge.
Read the full Uttarakhand land buying guide for buyer eligibility, stamp duty and NRI rules.
District overview
Tehri Garhwal is a mid-Himalayan district with New Tehri as its headquarters. The MSME-DI profile (undated, data to 2010-11) records about 6.2 lakh people at the 2011 Census, seven tehsils (Deoprayag, Ghansali, Narendra Nagar, Pratap Nagar, Tehri, Jakhanidhar and Dhanolti), nine blocks and 1,768 villages (MSME-DI profile). Anyone searching for agricultural land here should know first that the district sits inside the state bar on outside buyers (see the legal notes above), so the realistic outside-buyer product is a small residential plot of up to 250 sq m. New Tehri stands at 1,550 to 1,950 m, 72 km from Rishikesh railway station and 86 km from Jolly Grant airport, with Chamba 11 km away (Tehri district portal).
The district's identity is water. Tehri Dam on the Bhagirathi is a 260.5 m earth and rockfill dam with 3,540 million cubic metres of gross storage, and THDC lists the complex at 2,400 MW, made up of the 1,000 MW Stage-I plant commissioned in 2006-07, Koteshwar (400 MW) and the 1,000 MW pumped-storage plant (Tehri Hydro Power Complex, THDC India Limited; Uttarakhand Irrigation Department). The pumped-storage units entered commercial operation between 7 June 2025 and 12 April 2026 (THDC operating data). The lake is now a tourism product: the Himalayan O2 Tehri Lake Festival ran on 7 to 9 March 2026 with kayaking, jet-skiing, parasailing and scuba diving, and the Chief Minister said projects worth more than ₹1,300 crore were under way (Outlook Traveller, March 2026).
For a land buyer the district is several small markets rather than one. Around New Tehri and the lake the pull is views and water sports. Narendra Nagar and Chamba lie on the Rishikesh road, Dhanaulti is a tehsil in the Mussoorie direction, and Devprayag, at the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda confluence, is a town on the planned rail line (MSME-DI profile; Railway Technology, April 2023). We found no sourced price series for any of them, so this page quotes none. Hill ground also carries slope, drainage and road-access questions that decide whether a plot is buildable at all.
The district's farm economy is small-holding hill agriculture: the MSME-DI profile lists wheat, rice, maize and barley among the major crops and records 321,564 of 485,517 hectares under forest in 2008-09 (District industrial profile, Tehri Garhwal, MSME-DI (undated, data to 2010-11)). Crop income will not carry land prices; the case for land here is scenery, access and permitted use, and the buyers who can legally act on it are mostly residents, so an outside buyer should read this page as a map of the rules and the belts rather than as an open market.
Transaction costs
5%
Stamp duty — male buyer
sale or conveyance deed; the fee sheet has no rural or urban split
3.75% / 5%
Stamp duty — female buyer
3.75% up to ₹25 lakh, 5% above ₹25 lakh
2%
Registration fee
fee sheet cap ₹25,000; may now be ₹50,000, see note
The rates above come from the Stamps and Registration Department fee sheet, an undated PDF, and the department's notification index (updated 18 November 2025), which records 5% duty since 31 May 2011. The index also records a 16 November 2025 amendment to the registration fee table that replaced a figure of twenty-five thousand with fifty thousand, so the cap on the 2% fee may now be ₹50,000; get the current cap from the Sub-Registrar. Whether duty is charged on the higher of the deal value and the circle rate has not been confirmed from these documents. Circle rates were revised from 5 October 2025, reported at 9% to 22% for Dehradun (ETV Bharat, October 2025); we found no Tehri Garhwal circle-rate list, so ask the Sub-Registrar for the village rate.
Know the belt
Small, uneven markets inside one district, with no sourced price series. The notes below give official and dated figures only.
No Tehri list found
We found no Tehri Garhwal circle-rate list on the Stamps and Registration Department's pages or in search. The October 2025 revision is reported only for Dehradun, at 9% to 22% (ETV Bharat, October 2025). The village rate from the Sub-Registrar is the starting point for any price discussion.
Check: the rate for the exact village and the land classification in the khatauni.
No sourced price
Dhanaulti is a tehsil and Chamba a development block in the MSME-DI profile (MSME-DI profile). The Chamba tunnel on the Rishikesh–Dharasu road, covered under infrastructure below, changes access on that stretch. We found no price series for either.
Check: tree-felling permission, slope and road access, and the status of the land in the revenue record.
₹1,294 crore approved (reported, 2024)
Outlook Traveller reported in March 2024 that the Asian Development Bank approved ₹1,294 crore over six years, 80% from ADB and 20% from the state, for Tehri tourism works. They include a 450 m glass-bottom bridge from Koti Colony to Tiwar, a ropeway at Tipri-Madan Negi and a 15.7 km tourism road from Koti Colony to Dobra Chanti, with no construction status given (Outlook Traveller, March 2024).
Check: the contour of a lakeside parcel against the full-reservoir level and who holds the foreshore.
No sourced price
Devprayag is a tehsil and block in the MSME-DI profile (District industrial profile, Tehri Garhwal, MSME-DI (undated, data to 2010-11)) and one of the towns the Rishikesh–Karnaprayag line connects (Railway Technology, April 2023). We found no price series, and a rail connection does not by itself set a land price.
Check: what the parcel is zoned for and whether railway or road works touch the khasra.
Hill land is recorded in nali and sold in sq yd. Farmland India uses 240 sq yd per nali as a working figure, which makes an acre about 20 nali, but a nali varies by locality. Convert each quote against the area in the khatauni before comparing two parcels.
Connectivity
The district portal gives road distances from New Tehri; rail does not yet reach the district, and the nearest airport is Jolly Grant near Dehradun. Journey times vary sharply with weather and landslides.
The practical question is the last leg from the highway to the parcel, because hill roads can close during the monsoon. Rishikesh is the gateway for Narendra Nagar, Chamba and New Tehri; Dehradun and Mussoorie are the gateway for Dhanaulti and Kanatal. Full rules for buyers from outside the state: Uttarakhand agricultural land rules.
Growth catalysts
Status labels reflect sources read in October 2026. Government-announced timelines are not guaranteed; items marked confirm have single or conflicting sources.
02Operating or built
02In progress or pending
Agriculture & terrain
Hill agriculture on terraced slopes, valley floors along the Bhagirathi and Bhilangana, and a large reservoir whose drawdown zone is not buildable ground.
The MSME-DI profile lists wheat, rice, maize and barley among the district's major crops, with 321,564 of 485,517 hectares recorded under forest in 2008-09 (District industrial profile, Tehri Garhwal, MSME-DI (undated, data to 2010-11)). Hill holdings are small and terraced, so ask how a parcel is watered. We did not find a current district crop plan, so the page gives no yield or area numbers.
Dhanaulti is a tehsil and Kanatal a ridge-line hill station on the Mussoorie side. Value there comes from views and road access; the questions are tree-felling permission, slope stability and whether a plot is private land. Plots are small and recorded in nali.
Tehri Lake has 3,540 million cubic metres of gross storage with a full reservoir level of 830 m, and the dam stands on the Bhagirathi at its confluence with the Bhilangana (Tehri Hydro Power Complex, THDC India Limited; Tehri dam project, Uttarakhand Irrigation Department, October 2026). Reservoir levels rise and fall through the year, so ask which contour a lakeside parcel stands above and whether the state or the dam company holds the foreshore.
Ask for the water source of any hill plot in writing: a spring, a gravity pipeline or a delivered supply. We did not retrieve district rainfall or groundwater data in this pass; use the CGWB district profile and the Jal Sansthan connection record for any parcel you shortlist.
Hill land is quoted in nali. Farmland India uses 240 sq yd per nali as a working figure, so an acre is about 20 nali, but a nali varies by locality; 1 acre = 4,840 sq yd. Convert every quote and read the area in the khatauni, not the seller's figure. Price a parcel on its location and permitted use rather than on crop income.
At a glance
| District / belt | Price evidence* | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tehri Garhwal — district | No sourced price series | No Tehri circle-rate list found |
| Tehri Garhwal — lake belt | No sourced price | ADB programme reported, 2024; no land price |
| Dehradun | Not sourced | Neighbour on the Rishikesh and Mussoorie side |
| Pauri Garhwal | Not sourced | Neighbour across the Alaknanda; Rishikesh–Karnaprayag line also passes |
*No listing-site asking prices are used. See the Dehradun page for the neighbouring plains-and-foothills market and the Pauri Garhwal page for the other side of the Alaknanda.
Farmland India view
Five reasoned points, with an honest note that the price evidence is thin and the outside-buyer route is narrow.
Tehri Lake hosted a three-day water-sports festival in March 2026, the Chief Minister cited more than ₹1,300 crore of tourism work under way, and an ADB-backed programme of ₹1,294 crore was reported in 2024 (Outlook Traveller, March 2026; Outlook Traveller, March 2024). That supports visitor numbers, but the plans have no completion dates, so treat them as direction, not delivery.
New Tehri is 72 km from Rishikesh railway station and 86 km from Jolly Grant airport, and Chamba is 11 km away (district portal). A buyer based in the Dehradun valley or Delhi can reach the district in a day, subject to monsoon road closures.
The Rishikesh–Karnaprayag line is reported 78% complete and connects towns including Devprayag, but its target is December 2029 (Swarajya, August 2026), against December 2028 in March 2026 (Swarajya, March 2026). Price on today's roads.
The 1,000 MW Stage-I plant (2006-07) and the 1,000 MW pumped-storage plant, fully commissioned in April 2026, give the district large public hydropower assets and a managed shoreline (Tehri Hydro Power Complex, THDC India Limited; Tehri pumped-storage plant operating data, THDC India Limited), which is a different risk profile from an unmanaged hill village.
Between the 2025 land law, forest and van panchayat land, river setbacks and slope checks, each parcel needs its own file. A buyer who documents classification, access and water is better placed than one relying on a broker. The case here is location and permitted use, not crop yield.
Confirm eligibility, classification, slope and river-setback status directly; these are not certified by Farmland India's review.
Read these before shortlisting in Tehri Garhwal specifically.
A person who holds no land in Uttarakhand cannot buy agricultural or horticultural land in Tehri Garhwal under the 2025 Act (Act text). Residential purchase works through the 250 sq m affidavit, and NRIs cannot buy agricultural land or a farm house under RBI rules.
The district sits on the Char Dham road system, and hill roads can close for days in the monsoon. Ask for road-closure history and check cut slopes above and below the plot.
A verbal 200 m river setback was announced in July 2013 and an official described it as not yet a written order (Down To Earth, July 2013). We found no written order, and reservoir levels move through the year. Ask for the highest flood or full-reservoir level against the parcel in writing.
Tehri Dam and the district lie in the Himalayan belt, where slopes and foundations need engineering. Use a structural engineer for any building and ask the local authority which building rules apply to the parcel.
Hill khatas can carry forest, van panchayat or community rights. Do not rely on a seller's sketch; read the khasra and khatauni and have the boundary pillars checked on the ground.
The rail line's target is December 2029 against December 2028 in March 2026, the lake plans carry no completion dates, the 2023 ₹7,708 crore plan was at DPR stage and the Chamba tunnel's opening is unconfirmed. Price on today's fundamentals.
We found no price series and no Tehri circle-rate list. Collect registered sale deeds from the same village and the village rate from the Sub-Registrar before negotiating.
Who to contact
Mutation and revenue-record matters go through the Tehsildar of the relevant tehsil (the MSME-DI profile lists Deoprayag, Ghansali, Narendra Nagar, Pratap Nagar, Tehri, Jakhanidhar and Dhanolti, District industrial profile, Tehri Garhwal, MSME-DI (undated, data to 2010-11)) and the District Magistrate's office at New Tehri, reported on the Tehri district portal. Sale-deed registration is handled by the local Sub-Registrar, and the Stamps and Registration Department publishes its fee sheet and notification index. Forest-land and tree-felling questions go to the Divisional Forest Officer, and construction in a development-authority area needs a map approval. Land records are on Bhulekh Uttarakhand, so ask the tehsil for a certified copy.
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Visit full wiki01 of 04
Not if you hold no land in Uttarakhand. Since 1 May 2025 the Act allows such a purchase only in Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar, with state sanction, and Tehri Garhwal is one of the other 11 districts. Residential land works through an affidavit that neither the buyer nor family has bought more than 250 sq m elsewhere in the state; confirm the details with the Sub-Registrar.
02 of 04
We have no sourced price series and found no Tehri circle-rate list. The October 2025 circle-rate revision is reported for Dehradun only. Ask the Sub-Registrar for the village rate and collect registered sale deeds from the same village before negotiating.
03 of 04
The Stamps and Registration fee sheet gives 5% for a male buyer and 3.75% for a female buyer up to Rs 25 lakh (5% above), with a 2% registration fee capped at Rs 25,000. A November 2025 amendment may have raised that cap to Rs 50,000, so confirm it with the Sub-Registrar.
04 of 04
The Rishikesh–Karnaprayag rail line, with Devprayag among its towns, is reported 78% complete with a December 2029 target. Tehri Lake tourism works of more than Rs 1,300 crore are reported under way, and the opening date of the Chamba tunnel on the Char Dham road is not confirmed.
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Data-currency note: population and tehsil figures reflect Census 2011 as given in an undated MSME-DI profile, and area figures conflict inside it, so none is given. We found no Tehri Garhwal circle-rate list and no sourced price series. Dam, power and lake figures come from THDC and the Irrigation Department; infrastructure statuses were read in October 2026 and change quickly. The Chamba tunnel's opening is unconfirmed. This is a general guide, not legal advice. Report inaccuracies to wiki@farmlandindia.com.
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