Ayodhya Air Funnel Zones

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (Height Restrictions for Safeguarding of Aircraft Operations) Rules, 2015 (GSR 751E) govern every structure within 20 km of the Aerodrome Reference Point (ARP) of Maharishi Valmiki International Airport. The airport funnel zone, the most restrictive surface, runs along the runway approach and departure paths. Inside it, permitted building height equals 2% of the distance from the runway edge. So a plot 1,000 meters from the runway end has a ceiling of just 20 meters AGL. The table below shows how height limits shift across the main OLS zones.

AAI measures height in AMSL, not floors. A plot at higher ground elevation in Naka can breach the Permissible Top Elevation (PTE) even with a three-story building. If your plot is in a red grid on the CCZM (Color Coded Zoning Map), local bodies cannot approve the building plan at all. You must file through NOCAS directly. Roughly 40% of height clearance NOC applications nationally are rejected by AAI. Get the NOC before the registry, not after.

The airport sits at Naka and Usru villages on NH-27, with Faizabad Junction just 6.8 km to the north-west. Plots in these localities sit closest to the ARP and therefore carry the strictest height ceilings. Darshan Nagar sits further east toward Ayodhya City and has attracted plotted development; its greater distance from the runway gives slightly more headroom, but it still falls within the 20 km NOC radius.

The table below maps the corridors buyers are most actively targeting and the key risk factor in each.

The most misunderstood corridor is the Faizabad Bypass Road. Brokers pitch it as "airport-adjacent" for connectivity premium but rarely mention that plots here sit inside the conical surface. A four-floor apartment that looks compliant with local bylaws can still breach AAI's AMSL ceiling. Always request the Permissible Top Elevation from NOCAS for the exact survey coordinates before paying the token amount.