Mohali Sector 84 Institutional Land Now Zoned For Homes मोहाली सेक्टर 84 की संस्थागत ज़मीन अब रिहायशी ज़ोन में ਮੋਹਾਲੀ ਸੈਕਟਰ 84 ਦੀ ਸੰਸਥਾਗਤ ਜ਼ਮੀਨ ਹੁਣ ਰਿਹਾਇਸ਼ੀ ਜ਼ੋਨ ਵਿੱਚ

Land in Sector Eighty Four that the Mohali master plan had kept for institutions is now zoned for housing. The Punjab Department of Housing and Urban Development has amended the master plan for SAS Nagar so that the area shown under the institutional zone of the sector should "be converted into the Residential Zone". GMADA posted the notification on its website in late October, and the text says the change comes into operation from the date of notification.

The request came from the village. The gram panchayat of Raipur Khurd, whose land falls in this part of Sector Eighty Four, passed a resolution in July last year asking for the institutional zone to be changed to residential. The change took a little over a year to come through.

The panchayat asked and the state board agreed

The notification sets out each step the request went through. The government first had to approve a thirty day public notice under section seventy six of the Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Act of nineteen ninety five. That approval came from the Chief Minister, who chairs the Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Board, under a procedure the board settled at its forty fourth meeting in October twenty twenty two.

The public notice went out on the nineteenth of March this year. Only one objection or suggestion came in during the thirty days.

A think tank committee chaired by the Deputy Commissioner of SAS Nagar took it up on the thirtieth of April and again on the twenty second of June. The notification records that "all the members agreed to the proposal for amendment of Master Plan, S.A.S. Nagar".

The proposal then went to the state board, which considered it at its forty seventh meeting on the eighth of September. The change is drawn on a district town planner's drawing dated the tenth of September. The government's approval letter followed on the first of October.

The Senior Town Planner for SAS Nagar issued the amendment under section seventy, sub-section five of the same Act. A copy has gone to the state's printing department with a request to publish it in the Punjab Government Gazette. GMADA's list of notifications dates it to the twenty seventh of October.

Why the institutional label mattered to owners

An institutional zone keeps land for uses such as schools, colleges, hospitals and research bodies. Houses and residential colonies cannot come up on it.

For people holding land in Raipur Khurd, that narrowed the field of buyers to institutions and to investors willing to wait. When the public notice went out in March, Amar Ujala reported that residents said few buyers had come forward while the land carried the institutional tag. The same report said buyer interest and asking prices had risen sharply once the change was proposed, and that residents welcomed the decision.

Those were residents' accounts to a newspaper. The notification itself says nothing about land prices, and no official rate for the sector has changed with it. Stamp duty on a sale in the sector is still worked out on the district collector rate, which is set separately.

What a residential zone allows and what it leaves for later

A zone on the master plan decides what a piece of land may be used for. On its own it does not approve a single house or colony.

Agricultural land in a residential zone generally still needs a change of land use permission before it is developed. A colony laid out for sale needs a licence under the Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation Act. A project that sells plots or flats to the public has to be registered with Punjab RERA before it is advertised or booked.

Those steps are now open for land in this part of Sector Eighty Four. None of them has been taken because of the notification. A buyer offered a plot here in the coming months would be dealing with land whose zone has changed, while the approvals that make a colony lawful may not exist yet.

The amendment also says nothing about roads or sewerage. Those come from layout approvals and from GMADA's plans for the sector, which the notification does not touch.

How this fits the SAS Nagar master plan

The master plan for SAS Nagar was first notified in December two thousand and eight. The Sector Eighty Four notification lists three later notifications before it: one in December twenty sixteen and two more this year. It is the latest in a run of changes to the same plan.

Every change of zone follows the route this one took: a public notice, a period for objections, a review at district level, then approval by the state board and the government. Our report on [GMADA's plan to narrow future roads](/article/387-gmada-s-plan-to-narrow-future-roads-draws-formal-objections-what-the-master-plan-route-still-requires) shows how that route worked for a proposal that drew formal objections from residents.

The planning assumptions behind the city's zones are covered in our piece on the [SAS Nagar master plan for twenty thirty one](/article/318-sas-nagar-master-plan-2031-why-mohali-was-planned-for-13-lakh-people). A separate relief for [existing factories in the district's non-conforming zones](/article/347-existing-factories-in-mohali-district-s-non-conforming-zones-get-land-use-relief) shows another way the state has adjusted land use around Mohali.

Raipur Khurd's request was a village matter

Most master plan changes around Mohali begin with GMADA or a developer. This one began with a gram panchayat resolution, and the notification names Raipur Khurd's panchayat as the party that asked.

That matters for anyone tracing the history of land in the village. The change was made on the village's own request, after a public notice that drew a single response. It was not part of a GMADA scheme, and the notification does not mention acquisition, land pooling or any GMADA project on this land.

What the notification leaves unsaid

The notification does not give the area of land that changes zone. It refers to "the area shown" on the drawing, and the drawing is not part of the copy on GMADA's website.

It does not say whether all of the institutional land in Sector Eighty Four is covered, or only the part held by Raipur Khurd. It does not record who filed the single objection or what it asked for. The think tank committee's minutes are not attached.

Until the drawing is seen, the zone of any one khasra number in the sector cannot be read from the notification alone.

Where the zone of a plot can be checked

The drawing sits with the office of the Senior Town Planner in SAS Nagar. When the change was first proposed in March, Amar Ujala reported that the revised plan was open for inspection at the PUDA office and the Deputy Commissioner's office.

A sale deed or an agreement to sell does not record the master plan zone of the land it covers. The fard from the revenue record shows ownership and the khasra number, and the master plan drawing shows the zone. The two have to be read together.

The next document due is the Gazette copy of the notification, which the town planner has asked the printing department to publish. Any colony on this land would then appear first as an application for a change of land use or a licence. Only later would it show up as a project on the Punjab RERA register.

Sources: The sources we use are listed on our Editorial Sources page.

This report explains a master plan amendment as notified by the Punjab government. It does not offer legal or investment advice, and the position of any piece of land turns on its own revenue record and the approved drawing.