Farmland in Gurgaon Master Plan Zones: What Is Allowed (2026)

Which plan, and which version we read

We read the text of notification No. CCP(NCR)/FDP-2031/GGN/2012/3541, dated 15 November 2012, titled the Final Development Plan 2031 AD, Gurgaon-Manesar Urban Complex. It says it was issued under sub-section (7) of section 5 of the Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Act, 1963. This is the final, notified version, not a draft. We read a third-party copy of the notification text, not the original on the department site, which our tools could not open, so check the original before you rely on a clause.

We found no amended or replacement plan. The Haryana urban local bodies department's page of town planning notifications showed no Gurugram development plan 2041 or 2031 amendment when we looked, although its list is not a full legal record. A real-estate tracker page that carries the "2041" title did not state whether the plan is a draft, under objection or notified, and it cited no official document. Until Haryana publishes a notified 2041 plan, a brochure that says "approved master plan 2041" should be treated as unverified. If a plan is only a draft, it does not change what is allowed on your land.

What the 2031 plan allots: the land-use table

The notification gives proposed land use in hectares. The percentages below are our own arithmetic on those figures, using the total of the nine land-use rows (32,988 hectares).

The notification adds the existing town (406 hectares) and village abadis (478 hectares), for a grand total of 33,872 hectares. It states that the urbanisable area would accommodate 42.50 lakh people by 2031. Note that the table covers the urbanisable area. The agricultural zone and the Aravalli conservation zone are reserved separately, as set out below. Our general guide to land use zones explains the terms.

The agricultural zone: what the notification says

The notification says that "a sizeable area has been reserved as agricultural zone". Its Appendix A (code 820) states that for agricultural land no change of land use or licence shall be granted, with an exception for applications received before 4 September 2012. About 50 hectares near village Dhankot is earmarked for dairy farming and a gaushala.

For a farmland buyer this is the key point. Land in the agricultural zone is not land waiting for a plotting licence. A seller who says it will "soon be residential" is promising something the plan, as notified, does not allow. We could not confirm what farm buildings or farmhouses the zoning regulations permit in the agricultural zone, and the notification extract we read did not settle it. Read what you can build in an agricultural zone, farmhouse rules in Haryana and building a farmhouse without CLU. A change of land use needs the Director's permission under section 7(1) of the 1963 Act, as we read it. See CLU in Haryana.

The Natural Conservation Zone and Aravalli land

The notification states that "the Aravalli Ranges have been designated as Natural Conservation Zone in the Plan". The permitted uses it lists are agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture, social forestry, afforestation and regional recreation, with construction not exceeding 0.5 percent of the area. It also says that areas under sections 4 and 5 of the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900 and Aravalli plantation are treated as forest, "in which no urbanization shall be allowed".

So a plot in the south of Gurgaon can be described as "farmland" and still be unbuildable. Check three things: the zone on the plan, whether the khasra falls in a notified PLPA area, and the Supreme Court position on how the Aravalli is defined. We saw reports that the Court defined the Aravalli in November 2025, stayed that order in December 2025 and set up an expert committee, but we did not open the orders. The position is unsettled, so confirm it with an advocate. Read PLPA section 4 and gair mumkin pahar, Aravalli and green belt restrictions and green belts and no-development zones.

Roads, green belts and other reservations

The zoning regulations reserve land for roads and green belts. From the notification as we read it:

• The Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway is shown as a 100 metre road with a 100 metre green belt on both sides. See the KMP Expressway guide.
• A V-2(e) road is a 90 metre road with a 30 metre green belt on both sides.
• A V-3(b) road is a 60 metre road with a 50 metre green belt on the outer sides.
• A 900 metre strip around the ammunition depot must remain free of urbanisation.
• Groundwater pumping within 5 kilometres of the Delhi-Haryana border (the ridge and Aravalli hills) is stated to be prohibited under Supreme Court orders.

A road reservation can run through a farm plot and make part of it undevelopable. Check the sector plan against your khasra. Dwarka Expressway pockets are covered in the Dwarka Expressway guide.

The legal tools behind the plan

From the Acts in our legal reference:

• Punjab Act 41 of 1963, section 4: the Government may declare a controlled area, which can extend eight kilometres from a town boundary. Section 6: building in a controlled area needs the previous permission of the Director and must follow the plans, with no permission needed for buildings used for agriculture or subservient to it. Section 7: no land may be used for a different purpose without the Director's permission.
• Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975, section 3: an owner who wants to convert land into a colony must apply for a licence. Section 7: without a licence no person, including a property dealer, may transfer or advertise plots or take money. Section 10: imprisonment up to three years and a fine.

Those two provisions are the reason a "plot" in an unlicensed layout is a legal risk. Our controlled area versus urbanisable area page explains the difference, and how to spot an unapproved plotting scheme shows the signs.

How to check a specific parcel

1. Find the sector or revenue estate. Use the village and khasra (खसरा) number from the record. See Haryana Jamabandi and Bhu Naksha Haryana.
2. Get the zoning plan. Ask the Town and Country Planning Department for the zoning or land-use certificate for your parcel. See how to get a land use certificate. The notification refers to drawing No. DTP(G) 2104/2012 dated 9 November 2012; ask for it and any later sheet.
3. Check the zone. Is it residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural zone or Natural Conservation Zone? Write the answer down with the date.
4. Check PLPA and forest status. See the Aravalli section above.
5. Check road reservations and green belts from the plan sheet.
6. Check licence and approvals if you are offered a plot: a colony licence under the 1975 Act, and the sector plan.
7. Check acquisition. See government acquisition notices.
8. Check the circle rate only as a stamp duty floor: Gurgaon circle rate.

The Haryana department publishes development plans on tcpharyana.gov.in, but our tools could not open that site, so look there directly and compare with the gazette. Do not use a third-party coloured map as proof of zone.

Where farmland pockets are, and what that means

The plan reserves a sizeable agricultural zone and a conservation zone, but we could not confirm a sector-by-sector list, and we did not extract the hectares for those two zones. We therefore do not name farmland sectors. What you can say is limited: farmland in the notified agricultural zone is meant to stay agricultural, farmland in the Natural Conservation Zone faces the strictest limits, and farmland in an urbanisable sector is waiting for development by HSVP or a licensed colonizer, with timing unknown. Pricing claims for these areas are not published here, because we found no official source for them. For wider context, see farmland near Delhi NCR.

What is unconfirmed

We could not confirm: the existence, date or status of any 2041 plan; any amendment to the 2031 plan after 2012; the original of the 2012 notification on the department site; the hectares of the agricultural and conservation zones; the farm building rules in the zoning regulations; and the Supreme Court Aravalli orders, which we did not open. This page stays a draft until the department's original documents are read.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

• Notification No. CCP(NCR)/FDP-2031/GGN/2012/3541, 15 November 2012 (third-party copy of the notification text)
• Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Act, 1963 (Haryana text, PRS)
• Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975 (PRS)
• Haryana Directorate of Urban Local Bodies: town planning notifications
• LSR Realty: Gurgaon Master Plan 2041 tracker (secondary; states no status or document)