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Aerial view of terraced hill farms and pine forest above Tehri Lake, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand

District guide

Buying Land in Tehri Garhwal

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 Portal

District 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

District overview

Tehri Garhwal — Tehri Lake, Dhanaulti, Kanatal and the Char Dham road, 72 km from Rishikesh

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.

  • New Tehri
  • Tehri Lake
  • Narendra Nagar
  • Chamba
  • Dhanaulti
  • Kanatal
  • Devprayag
Locator map of Tehri Garhwal district in Uttarakhand showing New Tehri, Narendra Nagar, Chamba, Dhanaulti, Kanatal and Devprayag

Transaction costs

Stamp duty & registration in Tehri Garhwal

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

What is moving prices in Tehri Garhwal

Small, uneven markets inside one district, with no sourced price series. The notes below give official and dated figures only.

Circle rates

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.

Dhanaulti and Chamba

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.

Lake belt: the ADB-backed programme

₹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.

Devprayag

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.

Units: nali and sq yd

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

How Tehri Garhwal connects — road, rail and air

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.

By road

Chamba (from New Tehri)~11 km (district portal)
Rishikesh railway station (from New Tehri)~72 km (district portal)
Rishikesh–Dharasu road (NH-94)Chamba tunnel (440 m): breakthrough May 2020; opening not confirmed (Deccan Herald, May 2020)
Char Dham programmeRishikesh–Dharasu is part of it; 825 km in 53 packages, 291 km completed by December 2022 (PIB, December 2022), no newer figure found

By air

Jolly Grant airport (Dehradun)~86 km from New Tehri (district portal)
Delhi (IGI)Reached through Dehradun or Rishikesh; no sourced road time

By rail

RishikeshNearest railhead, 72 km from New Tehri (district portal)
Rishikesh–Karnaprayag lineUnder construction; towns it connects include Devprayag (Railway Technology, April 2023)
MetroNone in the district

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

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.

02Operating or built

02In progress or pending

Under construction · target Dec 2029 Rishikesh–Karnaprayag rail line
In progress · confirm status Tehri Lake tourism development
Operational · fully commissioned Apr 2026 Tehri pumped-storage plant
Breakthrough May 2020 · opening not confirmed Chamba tunnel on the Char Dham road
Under construction · target Dec 2029

Rishikesh–Karnaprayag rail line

A new broad-gauge line of about 125 km through Dehradun, Tehri Garhwal, Pauri Garhwal, Rudraprayag and Chamoli. Swarajya (28 August 2026) reports it 78% complete, with 101 km of the 104 km of main tunnels excavated, a December 2029 target and a cost of ₹37,000 crore (Swarajya, August 2026); Construction World (2 September 2026) gives the same progress and target (Construction World, September 2026). Swarajya had reported 73% and a December 2028 target in March 2026 (Swarajya, March 2026). Towns on the line include Devprayag (Railway Technology, April 2023). Confirm the date with RVNL before pricing a parcel on it.

Source: Swarajya, 28 Aug 2026 and 29 Mar 2026; Construction World, 2 Sep 2026; Railway Technology, Apr 2023

Length

~125 km

Corridor

Rishikesh → Karnaprayag

Progress

78% (Aug–Sep 2026)

Target

Dec 2029 (reported)

Land markets in the blast radius

  • Devprayag
  • Narendra Nagar
  • Chamba
In progress · confirm status

Tehri Lake tourism development

The Chief Minister said in March 2026 that projects worth more than ₹1,300 crore were under way, including a ring road around the reservoir; he announced a Koti Colony–New Tehri ropeway and plans to develop Timad village for tourism (Outlook Traveller, March 2026). A separate March 2024 report describes an ADB-approved programme of ₹1,294 crore over six years (Outlook Traveller, March 2024). A December 2023 announcement described a ₹7,708 crore, 42 km programme from Kothi to the Dobra Chanti bridge, then at feasibility-survey and detailed-project-report stage (Drishti IAS, December 2023). The figures may describe different scopes, and we found no completion dates.

Source: Outlook Traveller, Mar 2026 and Mar 2024; Drishti IAS, 12 Dec 2023

Reported spend

₹1,300 crore+ under way (Mar 2026)

ADB programme

₹1,294 crore (2024)

Earlier plan

₹7,708 crore, 42 km (2023)

Dates

None found

Land markets in the blast radius

  • New Tehri
  • Koti Colony
  • Timad
  • Dobra Chanti
Operational · fully commissioned Apr 2026

Tehri pumped-storage plant

The 1,000 MW pumped-storage plant (four 250 MW reversible units) sits beside the 1,000 MW Stage-I plant. THDC's operating data give the units' dates as 7 June 2025, 10 July 2025, 12 December 2025 and 12 April 2026, when the plant was fully commissioned (Tehri pumped-storage plant operating data, THDC India Limited). THDC lists the whole complex at 2,400 MW including Koteshwar (Tehri Hydro Power Complex, THDC India Limited). This matters to land buyers mainly because it keeps the reservoir and shoreline under active management, not because it moves farmland prices.

Source: THDC India Limited, operating data and complex page

Capacity

1,000 MW (4 × 250 MW)

Unit 1

7 Jun 2025

Unit 4

12 Apr 2026

Status

Operational

Land markets in the blast radius

  • New Tehri
  • Koteshwar
Breakthrough May 2020 · opening not confirmed

Chamba tunnel on the Char Dham road

A 440 m tunnel beneath Chamba town on the Rishikesh–Dharasu road (NH-94), built by the Border Roads Organisation under the Char Dham programme. The breakthrough was marked on 26 May 2020 (GKToday, May 2020), and the road and tunnel project was reported at ₹88 crore for six km, cutting the passage through town from about 30 minutes to about 10 and expected to open in October 2020 (Deccan Herald, May 2020). On 17 December 2020 the BRO still expected it to open "hopefully in the beginning of next year" (The Pioneer, December 2020). We did not find an opening report, so confirm that it is in use. Chamba is the junction for New Tehri, Dhanaulti and Kanatal.

Source: Deccan Herald, 26 May 2020; GKToday, 26 May 2020; The Pioneer, 17 Dec 2020

Length

440 m

Road

Rishikesh–Dharasu (NH-94)

Breakthrough

May 2020

Status

Opening not confirmed

Land markets in the blast radius

  • Chamba
  • Kanatal
  • Dhanaulti
  • New Tehri

Agriculture & terrain

Soil, crops & water in Tehri Garhwal

Hill agriculture on terraced slopes, valley floors along the Bhagirathi and Bhilangana, and a large reservoir whose drawdown zone is not buildable ground.

🌾 Terraced hill farms

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.

  • Wheat
  • Rice
  • Barley
  • Maize
  • Tea

⛰️ Ridge-line belts (Dhanaulti, Kanatal)

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.

  • Ridge-line
  • Forest edge
  • Hill station

🌊 Reservoir and river belt

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.

  • Reservoir
  • Bhagirathi
  • Bhilangana

💧 Water & rainfall

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.

📐 Measurement units

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

Tehri Garhwal vs. its neighbours

District / beltPrice evidence*Evidence
Tehri Garhwal — districtNo sourced price seriesNo Tehri circle-rate list found
Tehri Garhwal — lake beltNo sourced priceADB programme reported, 2024; no land price
DehradunNot sourcedNeighbour on the Rishikesh and Mussoorie side
Pauri GarhwalNot sourcedNeighbour 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.

Fenced hill plot with boundary stones, pine trees and terraced fields above Tehri Lake, Uttarakhand

District report — Tehri Garhwal

Farmland India view

Why investors look at Tehri Garhwal

Five reasoned points, with an honest note that the price evidence is thin and the outside-buyer route is narrow.

A lake destination with public money behind it

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.

Rishikesh and Dehradun within a weekend

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.

A railway that is mostly built underground

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.

Large public assets already running

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.

A market that rewards paperwork

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.

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Risks & challenges in Tehri Garhwal

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Agricultural land bar for outsiders

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.

Slope, landslide and road closure

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.

Reservoir and river setbacks

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.

Slope and structure

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.

Forest, van panchayat and community land

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.

Announced is not delivered

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.

No sourced price series

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

Local revenue, planning & forest offices

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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Can an outsider buy agricultural land in Tehri Garhwal?

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.

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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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