Ayodhya Ring Road: NHAI Bypass Map, Route and Status

The Ayodhya ring road map shows two greenfield packages that together form a ring around Ayodhya and the former Faizabad town. Both start near km 112.540 of NH-27, the Lucknow-Ayodhya-Gorakhpur highway, and between them they connect NH-27, NH-330, NH-330A and NH-135A. The table gives the alignment as NHAI published it in the bid documents.

When the state announced the project in February 2023, the route was described as starting at Maheshpur in Gonda district, passing Bishnupur and Magalsi in Ayodhya district and ending at Sitarampur in Basti district. It crosses 47 villages and needs 11 major bridges, 12 minor bridges, 22 underpasses and 4 railway overbridges.

The full village and khasra schedule is published in the NHAI land acquisition notifications under the National Highways Act, 1956, in the Gazette of India (egazette.gov.in). There is no official standalone Ayodhya ring road map PDF; the alignment drawings sit with those notifications and NHAI's project records. You can view the alignment against plot boundaries on the 1acre map layer.

As of October 2026, both packages are under construction by Ceigall India Ltd on Hybrid Annuity Mode under NHDP Phase VII. The latest verifiable progress figure is for the Southern Ayodhya Bypass: Ceigall reported to the stock exchanges that the package reached Project Milestone II at 35% physical progress on 7 May 2026, verified by the Independent Engineer on 12 May 2026 and 92 days ahead of schedule. The company's filings reviewed for this page do not give a progress figure for the Northern bypass.

Two points matter for buyers. First, construction progress does not settle land status: the 392-hectare acquisition and its compensation awards are separate records, so check the khasra against the acquisition schedule even where work has started nearby. Second, the Gonda bypass and the Gonda-Ayodhya six-lane link described below are separate projects at much earlier stages. A plot marketed as being on the ring road may in fact sit on one of those alignments, which are not yet under construction.

Most searches for a Gonda ring road refer to the Gonda bypass, a four-lane bypass with paved shoulders around Gonda city that the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is taking forward. It is a separate project from the Ayodhya ring road. The bypass has two parts, and each has been notified for land acquisition with the Special Land Acquisition Officer, Gonda, as the competent authority.

Villages in the western part include Indrapur, Pure Lalak, Sidhaw, Jhanjhari, Kathamafi, Haripur and Ummedjot in Gonda tehsil, and Chandpur and Dullapur Tarhar in Colonelganj tehsil. Villages in the eastern part include Turkoliya, Bhatwalia, Mahadev, Majhwa, Bahlolpur, Laxmanpur and Gangapur. The full lists are in the two gazette notifications.

On 16 June 2026 the MoRTH regional office in Lucknow invited Hybrid Annuity Mode bids for 20.570 km of the western part, with bids due on 31 July 2026. No contract award had been reported in the sources reviewed for this page as of October 2026. There is no official Gonda ring road map PDF; the gazette schedules are the authoritative record of which villages fall on the alignment.

The Gonda-Ayodhya six-lane project is a separate national highway proposal, reported in January 2026 as the Ayodhya-Gonda-Balrampur six-lane highway. It is about 65 km long. About 8 km of it lies within the Ayodhya ring road in the Nawabganj area, and the remaining stretch of about 57 km is a new six-lane alignment towards Gonda and Balrampur.

The proposal has changed before. A 2023 plan to four-lane the route was not approved because traffic was too low, and the plan was revised in January 2024 after the Ram Mandir consecration. A later link to the Gorakhpur-Shamli Expressway has also been proposed.

As of October 2026, no approval, land acquisition notification or tender for this six-lane road had been published in the sources reviewed for this page. Until a land acquisition notification names the villages, the alignment can still change, so do not pay a premium for a plot described as on the Gonda-Ayodhya six-lane road.

The Ram Mandir consecration triggered one of the fastest land price spikes any Indian city has seen in recent memory. Prime land near the temple corridor has reportedly seen 5x to 15x appreciation since 2020 by some market accounts. That velocity has also created the conditions for serious fraud, and the Ayodhya bypass corridor is the epicentre.

The most documented risk is ecologically sensitive land being sold as development plots. A Scroll.in investigation found that land in Majha Jamthara, the area between Faizabad, Ayodhya and the Saryu river, was identified by a National Green Tribunal committee as state government land. Despite this, it was transacted privately at highly inflated prices. Buyers who purchased in this zone did not hold valid title. The Saryu floodplain boundary is not marked on standard broker maps. If your plot sits near the river, the Majha Jamthara area or any zone that was previously a riverbed, get an NGT and state revenue department verification before proceeding.

The table below identifies the four categories of high-risk land on this corridor.

The ADA (Ayodhya Development Authority) expanded its planning area to 873 sq km in 2025, incorporating 343 villages from Basti and Gonda. Most of those villages have no sanctioned layouts under the Ayodhya Master Plan 2031. Brokers are selling agricultural parcels in these newly incorporated zones as "ADA area" plots. That description is accurate but meaningless for development until ADA notifies a layout. Buying agricultural land in a newly incorporated village on the expectation of residential conversion is a speculative bet, not a titled development site.

The bypass creates four distinct land markets and they are not equivalent. Understanding which one you are buying into is more important than the ring road proximity itself.

The NH-27 interchange zones at both ends of the ring road, near the Lucknow approach to the north and the Gorakhpur approach to the east, are where logistics and commercial demand will concentrate first. This is consistent with how every comparable bypass has played out: freight volumes (projected to reach 216,928 vehicles by 2033 versus 89,023 in 2023) drive warehousing demand before residential.

The Gonda Road and NH-330 corridor on the western and northern arc of the ring road is where hotel and hospitality land is most actively trading. Brands including Taj, Grand Hyatt, Radisson, and Park Plaza have been flagged for planned projects within 5 km of the Ram Temple. That commercial concentration makes the Gonda Road belt a genuinely demand-backed corridor, unlike speculative agricultural parcels further out.

The table below identifies the four land market types along the bypass.

Bharatkund on NH-330A is the most misread corridor on this bypass. Brokers cite its historical significance and proximity to the temple. The land use reality is that Bharatkund sits within the ADA's planning area but requires ADA-sanctioned conversion from agricultural to residential before any development is legally permissible. Proximity to the Ram Temple is not a substitute for a sanctioned layout plan. Confirm ADA zoning before any transaction in this belt.