GURUGRAM: The Haryana government plans to compulsorily acquire 1,157.22 acres of private land to build 24-metre internal roads across sectors 58 to 115 of the Gurugram-Manesar Urban Complex, according to a Department of Town and Country Planning status report placed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The affidavit, filed by DTCP Director General J. Ganesan and dated around 22 September, responds to a division bench that had pulled up the state over decade-old missing sector roads. On 14 September the court noted that homebuyers were seeking refunds and that licensed projects still lacked proper access years after allotment.
Of 1,836.6 acres identified under 24-metre alignments, 1,157.22 acres (about 63 percent) is still unacquired private land and will now move under the 2013 land acquisition law. Another 574.4 acres falls inside licensed colonies where developers must build and hand over roads free of cost before completion certificates. About 104.98 acres already sits with the government through Transferable Development Rights certificates.
The shortage is sharpest in sectors 99 to 115 along the Dwarka Expressway, where nearly 70 percent of the road alignment remains unacquired, followed by sectors 68 to 80 and 88 to 95B. For societies stuck behind tin-sheet barriers and dirt tracks, the affidavit is the first clear acreage map of how large the missing land really is.
After administrative approval on 15 September, a Joint Site Inspection Committee surveyed pockets and on 21 September recommended a pilot acquisition of 10.611 acres in sectors 81, 82, 82A, 83, 84, 85, 86 and 104. Notifications for the acquisition process were published in newspapers around 30 September. DTCP told the court it could not fix a date for finishing the full 1,157.22 acres.
For homebuyers in locked societies across 99 to 115, missing 24-metre roads also mean missing sewer trunks and water lines that were supposed to run in the same right of way. A dirt track may let a car scrape through; it rarely carries a legal trunk main.
The High Court's September remarks about refund pressure matter because unfinished access kills resale and bank confidence. Compulsory acquisition is slower than a temporary leased strip, but it is the only tool left once voluntary TDR failed to fill the map.
Why internal roads were left without a land budget
Historically, External Development Charges funded HSVP acquisition of 60-metre and 75-metre master roads, while 24-metre internal roads crossing private farm pockets had no matching acquisition pot. Builders could only pave inside licensed plots. Temporary rights-of-way and leased strips collapsed when landowners reclaimed parcels with walls and trenches, cutting sewer and water lines as well as cars.
The state's 2021 TDR policy did not close the gap because applications stayed voluntary. Budget announcements earlier this year signalled compulsory acquisition; the September affidavit and 30 September notifications are the paperwork start. Pilot funding is to come from DTCP's available EDC reserves, with a separate mechanism still to be worked out for the remaining land.
Readers following grade-separator headlines on Dalimss, such as the Hero Honda elevated-road clearance (https://dalimss.news/articles/haryana-approves-elevated-road-hero-honda-umang) or the SPR elevated tender (https://dalimss.news/articles/gmda-spr-elevated-tender-776-crore), should keep those corridor projects distinct from this internal 24-metre land hunt. Elevated decks do not replace missing sector spines in 99 to 115.
Metro civil packages toward Cyber City (https://dalimss.news/articles/haryana-clears-phase2-metro-civil-cyber-city) likewise sit on a different funding and alignment track. Homebuyers waiting on access roads need the acquisition notifications, social-impact steps and award timelines under the 2013 Act, not only transit announcements.
District and planning updates route through https://gurugram.gov.in/. Tender and notice boards that may carry related works appear on https://etenders.hry.nic.in/. Landowners in the pilot sectors should watch for Section 4 and social-impact hearing dates within the six-month statutory windows rather than relying on society WhatsApp summaries.
What is firm now is the 1,157.22-acre private-land figure, the sector 58 to 115 span, the High Court pressure, the 10.611-acre pilot list, the late-September newspaper notifications, and DTCP's refusal so far to give a full-completion date. Bulldozers on every missing stretch are not promised this month.
Pilot pockets in sectors 81 to 86 and 104 will become the template for notices, hearings and awards. If those first 10.611 acres stall on objections, the larger 1,157-acre promise will slip further. Landowners and RWAs should both track the social-impact calendar closely.
Funding beyond the pilot remains the political risk. EDC reserves can start a slice; they may not finish Dwarka Expressway belt gaps without a fresh fiscal instrument. Readers should watch Budget follow-up papers as closely as the High Court cause list.
