Mullanpur Masterplan

Mullanpur borders the Shivalik Hills. The master plan identified 1,150.2 hectares of land in the north-east of the LPA as falling under the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900 (PLPA). PLPA land protects the eco-fragile lower Shivalik foothills from development that would accelerate soil erosion and damage ground water recharge. In areas notified under Sections 4 and 5 of the PLPA, no commercial activity is permitted. The land must be used solely for bona fide agricultural purposes, per conditions imposed by the Supreme Court when 55,000 hectares across Mohali, Ropar and other districts were delisted from forest status in 2009.

The problem: PLPA-regulated Mullanpur villages (named explicitly as Mullanpur, Siswan, Gocher, Karoran and others in The Tribune reporting) have seen farmhouses and resorts come up illegally. In 2022, the Punjab Forest Department wrote to GMADA flagging violations by VIPs including retired IAS and IPS officers running commercial activities from these structures. In March 2026, the Punjab government announced it would demarcate delisted forest land to curb illegal construction after being pulled up by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The demolition risk is real, and it is active.

Separately, the master plan itself documented unauthorized commercial development mushrooming along major arterial roads from Chandigarh into Mullanpur. Any plot marketed as "commercial" along MDR-B or MDR-C without a valid GMADA colony license is in this category.

The table below maps the key zone types in the Mullanpur LPA Master Plan and what each means for a buyer.

Never accept a broker's claim that PLPA land was "delisted" and is now buildable for residential use. Even delisted land carries Supreme Court conditions restricting it to agricultural use only.

Mullanpur is where GMADA has been most actively acquiring land. Eco City 1 (400 acres, developed by L&T) was allotted in 2011. Eco City 2 followed with 289 residential plots. GMADA notified acquisition of 713 acres for Eco City and separately, 309 acres from village Mullanpur for a low-density and high-density housing project. In September 2025, The Tribune reported that Punjab scrapped its 2025 Land Pooling Policy and reverted to the 2013 Right to Fair Compensation Act for acquiring further land in Mullanpur for low-density housing, noting The Punjab government announced the compensation award of Rs 1,932.38 crore (Rs 6.24 crore per acre) for 309.30 acres in Mullanpur Garibdas on March 30, 2026. Farmers can opt for cash compensation or developed plots under the optional Land Pooling Policy notified in November 2025.

That active acquisition status is the central risk for private land buyers in Mullanpur. Any plot inside GMADA's notified acquisition boundary may face compulsory purchase at collector-assessed rates, not market rates. The Medicity health zone, with 50 acres allotted to Tata Memorial Centre's Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, with 100 acres acquired under land pooling for the Medicity health zone, sits adjacent to PLPA land on the north-east side of the LPA. Buyers confusing Medicity-adjacent land for free-market residential land routinely misjudge what they are actually buying.

The Eco City 1 Land Pooling Letter of Intent (LOI) resale market in Mullanpur is worth understanding separately: farmers who received Land Pooling entitlements (1,000 sq yards of residential plot per acquired acre) transfer these via registered LOI instruments. These are legitimate GMADA-backed instruments but carry their own title chain verification needs.