GMADA Master Plan Kurali: How 78 Villages Rewrite Mohali's Map

There's a particular kind of excitement running through Tricity's property circles this week, the kind that only shows up when a government authority quietly redraws the map of tomorrow. 

On 3 July 2026, GMADA released the draft of a long-awaited, dedicated GMADA master plan Kurali and if you have been watching Mohali's growth story for a long time period, you already know this is bigger than one small town finally getting its own paperwork. 

For the first time in the history of Mohali, since it was folded into the region's 2009 planning exercise, Kurali is being treated as a town in its own right, with its own zoning, its own roads and its own future. 

For the 78 villages named in this draft and for every investor who has ever looked at a Mohali map and wondered where the next Zirakpur or New Chandigarh might quietly emerge, the GMADA master plan Kurali is that answer, arriving sooner than most people expected. 

At Acquire Estate, we have spent over a decades - since 2014 - tracking every turn in the Tricity real estate story, also a trusted Mohali real estate consultant helping buyers, landowners and investors understand verified property opportunities, legal checks, and long-term growth corridors across Tricity, working alongside builders, investors, and buyers on 500+plus projects across the region and few announcements in recent years carry as much weight as this GMADA master plan Kurali does.

GMADA Mohali News: The Announcement That Has the Tricity Talking about

Here is the headline that caught everyone’s attention: the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority has published a draft master plan exclusively for Kurali Municipal Council and the 78 villages surrounding it and it has given the public 30 days to file objections and suggestions before the plan moves toward finalisation. 

This is GMADA Mohali news, confirmed directly by the Kurali Municipal Council's Executive Officer, Mr. Rajneesh Sood, who told the local reporters that the plan is all set, that a 30-day window has been opened for objections and that development work will begin only after this consultation period closes. It is a short but important sentence, because it tells you exactly where Kurali sits right now: on paper, not yet on the ground.

From a Footnote in the Regional Plan to Its Own Local Planning Area

To understand why this draft is important to consider? It helps to rewind to 2009. That year, GMADA's regional plan brought individual master plans into force for Mohali, New Chandigarh, Zirakpur, Derabassi, Banur and Kharar. 

Earlier, Kurali was technically a part of that same regional umbrella, stuffed into the broader GMADA regional master plan 2031 vision for the district, but it never received a master plan of its own territory.   
For the span of fifteen years, Kurali grew the way small Punjab towns often do: organically, unevenly and largely outside any formal GMADA Local Planning Area Kurali framework. 

With Mohali and Kharar urbanising rapidly and land along the Kurali corridor becoming harder to ignore, GMADA has now decided the town deserves the same structured treatment its neighbours got over a decade ago.

New Kurali Master Plan: Key Highlights at a Glance

Why Kurali, Why Now: Reading the GMADA Kurali Expansion

This isn't happening independently. The IT City–Kharar–Kurali greenfield corridor is now a part of the six-lane Chandigarh–Ambala expressway package, opened to traffic in December 2025, cutting travel time between Mohali's IT hub and Kurali dramatically. 

Add to that the steady northward boundary of Mohali and Kharar's built-up areas and you get exactly the kind of pressure that forces a planning authority's hand. 

The GMADA Kurali expansion being drafted now is not a sudden decision. Instead, it is the unavoidable next chapter of a larger growth story. That story has been writing itself along this highway for the last two years.

What the Draft Actually Covers, Sector by Sector

This is the operational heart of the GMADA master plan Kurali  - the part that decides what can legally be built where. According to officials, the draft marks out land for residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and public use and proposes the expansion of major roads, a wider transport network, green belts, drinking-water supply and sewerage infrastructure. 

Officials have also been candid about a sensitive point: once the plan is implemented, several villages will see their land-use category change and this could directly affect the interests of some landowners.   

That single admission is exactly why the 30-day objection window is being treated as more than a formality - and why, in some pockets along the corridor, future Kurali villages land acquisition for road widening and utility corridors is a realistic possibility once the zones are finalised.

Kurali Residential Zone: Villages Included in the Plan 

A key highlight of this plan is the list of villages now included in the residential zone. If you own ancestral property from family, a plot, or an investment property in any of these villages, it now falls within a formally planned urban zone. This means added legal clarity and a strong push for infrastructure development in the years ahead. 

Mohali Master Plan 78 Villages: What Changes on the Ground

The scale here is genuinely large. This Mohali master plan 78 villages draft, taken together with Kurali town itself, covers a stretch of land that has, until now, largely existed outside formal zoning. 

Copies of the draft are available at GMADA's headquarters, at the district town planner offices in Mohali and Kharar, at the Kurali Municipal Council office and on the PUDA website. 

So anyone with land in this belt can go and check exactly which zone their village or plot has been placed under before deciding whether to object or support the proposal.

Under Which Law? The Punjab Regional and Town Planning Act, 

Every master plan issued by GMADA, including this one, is prepared under the Punjab Regional and Town Planning Act, 1995 - formally, the Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Act.   
This is the legislation that gave GMADA itself the power to exist, under Section 29(1), back in August 2006 and it is the same law that governs how land use is classified, how objections are invited and how a draft plan eventually becomes a legally notified master plan. 

In plain terms: this Act is the reason Kurali's residents get a real 30-day say before anything is locked in, rather than simply being informed after the fact.

The 30-Day Window: How Objections and Suggestions Actually Work

Public participation is not a box-ticking exercise here - it genuinely shapes the final document. Gurpreet Singh, a former chief town planner quoted on the draft, made the point clearly: a master plan only becomes truly effective when it is finalised on the back of proper traffic studies, population growth projections and socio-economic surveys, alongside a realistic read of actual infrastructure needs. 

Only after this round of public hearings and suggestions will the plan go to the state government for approval and only after that approval will the final master plan be formally notified. 

Until that notification happens, nothing here is final - which is precisely why this window matters so much to anyone who owns land or is planning to buy in the belt.

GMADA Jurisdiction Expansion: The Bigger Regional Puzzle

Kurali's new draft doesn't exist in isolation. Since its formation, GMADA's mandate has steadily widened to cover Mohali, Banur, Zirakpur, Derabassi, Kharar, Mullanpur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Mandi Gobindgarh and Ropar - and this latest GMADA jurisdiction expansion into Kurali fits the same long-term pattern. 

It arrives in the same season as other planning moves nearby, including a proposed amendment to introduce industrial and commercial zoning around Gharuan and roughly sixteen surrounding villages.   
Seen together, these are not isolated announcements; they're pieces of a wider GMADA new master plan 2026 push to bring Punjab's fastest-growing corridors under formal, regulated planning before informal development outruns the infrastructure meant to support it.

Kurali Town Planning Punjab: The Making of a New Investment Hub

GMADA and PUDA officials are candid about their ambition here: with organised Kurali town planning Punjab in place, they expect the town to develop along lines similar to Mohali and New Chandigarh, becoming a genuine centre for investment and employment rather than a highway pass-through. 

Better connectivity via the national highway network and the newly opened greenfield corridor already has investors watching this stretch closely and that interest tends to compound once a formal master plan removes the guesswork around what can legally be built where. 

It's a pattern this market has seen before and it's shaping up to be one of the more closely tracked threads in Mohali real estate development news this year.

Understanding PAPRA: What Every Kurali Property Buyer Must Know

As formal planning arrives in Kurali, one term buyers will hear constantly is PAPRA - the Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation Act, 1995. This is the law that governs how any private colony or apartment project gets built legally in GMADA's jurisdiction. 

Before a promoter can sell a single plot, they must first obtain a Letter of Intent and then a full colony licence from GMADA. Along with this, submitting proof of registration as a promoter, a Change of Land Use certificate and a formal application under Form APR-I. 

A project that clears this process becomes a licensed PAPRA colony - meaning its layout is approved, its external development charges are accounted for and buyers do not need a separate No-Objection Certificate simply to register their property. 

A colony without this licence is, by definition, unauthorised, regardless of how polished its brochure looks or how confidently a broker vouches for it.

For a corridor like Kurali, where formal zoning is only now catching up with years of informal growth, this distinction is not academic - it is the single most important check a buyer can make before signing anything.

GMADA Defaulters List: What the Official Records Actually Show

A PAPRA licence is not a one-time formality; promoters must continue to meet their obligations, including clearing statutory dues and completing development works on schedule. For this, GMADA can and does flag them publicly. 

One verified, currently listed example on GMADA's own portal: M/s BSBP Estates Pvt Ltd, holding licence number 63/2024 for its Affordable Colony project across Azizpur and Khizergarh villages near Banur, has an official notice against it regarding non-clearance of dues. 

This is exactly the kind of record that sits in plain sight on GMADA's Approved Colonies page, yet most buyers never think to check it.

The Acquire Estate Take: What This Means for Buyers and Investors

Acquire Estate Kurali property guidance - Draft plans have a way of triggering premature excitement—brokers quoting zones that haven't been finalised, sellers pricing land as if the master plan were already notified. 

Our advice, built on more than a decades of watching Tricity cycles like this one play out, is simple: read the draft, understand which zone your village or plot actually falls under today and wait for the state government's final notification before treating any zoning change as guaranteed. 

Pair that with a hard check on PAPRA licensing status and GMADA's defaulter notices for any project you're considering and you remove almost all of the guesswork that trips up first-time buyers in a corridor going through this kind of transition. 

With a network spanning 500-plus projects and direct relationships across investors, builders and buyers, Acquire Estate's team can walk you through exactly where a specific village, sector, or project stands against this draft before you commit.

Conclusion: Your 30-Day Window Starts Now

The bottom line is simple: the GMADA master plan Kurali is no longer a rumour circulating in property WhatsApp groups - it is an official draft sitting in GMADA's offices, on the PUDA website and now, hopefully, in your own hands too. 

Whether you're a landowner in one of the 78 villages weighing whether to file an objection, or an investor eyeing Kurali's highway-linked plots before prices catch up with New Chandigarh, understanding this plan isn't optional homework anymore; it's the difference between buying with confidence and buying blind. 

Over the next 30 days, the final shape of this master plan will be influenced by exactly the kind of public voices this draft is inviting, so if you own land here, live nearby, or simply care where Mohali's growth is headed next, this is your window to be heard. 

And whenever you're ready to turn this planning moment into an actual decision—whether that's verifying a licensed colony, checking a defaulter notice, or simply making sense of where the GMADA’s master plan points next -  Acquire Estate's team is here to help, backed by more than a decade and 500-plus projects of hands-on Tricity real estate experience.