Streamlining land taxation policies, simplifying business laws for commercial sectors
Uttar Pradesh Government Establishes Committees to Boost Industrial Investment
The Uttar Pradesh government has taken significant steps to address land allotment issues and attract more industrial investment. Three high-level committees have been established to unlock notified areas, review land rates, and simplify building bylaws.
Unlocking Notified Areas
The first committee, chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary of the planning department, will focus on plan approvals for buildings or plots outside the purview of currently notified land. The committee aims to study successful practices from other states, develop these areas for investment, and overcome legal and procedural hurdles such as the requirement for fresh no-objection certificates (NOCs) even for existing approved layouts. Members of this committee include key officials from urban planning, Invest UP, YEIDA, and the law department.
Reviewing Land Rates
The second committee will address the concerns over steep industrial land prices in Uttar Pradesh, which are higher compared to neighbouring states like Madhya Pradesh. This committee will compare industrial land rates, review infrastructure standards, and suggest measures to rationalize land pricing to reduce the cost of doing business in the state.
Simplifying Building Bylaws
The third committee, chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary of the revenue department, aims to ease regulatory complexities by streamlining building bylaws applicable to industrial land. Simplifying these building codes is expected to facilitate faster approvals and smoother development processes for industrial projects. The third committee will also review bylaws in other states before making recommendations.
Together, these committees aim to address critical bottlenecks, including unlocking vast tracts of underutilized notified land (over 4 lakh hectares notified, but only 1.5 lakh hectares master planned and even less acquired), rationalizing land pricing to be competitive regionally, and simplifying bylaws to boost industrial investment and development within the state. All three committees are expected to submit their recommendations within a fortnight of their establishment around mid-August 2025.
These initiatives are part of the Uttar Pradesh government's efforts to address land allotment issues for Invest UP and attract more investment. The state has notified about 4 lakh hectares of land across various industrial development authorities, including Noida, Greater Noida, and the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA). The third committee's focus is on simplifying building bylaws to attract more investment and make the complex building bylaws of industrial development authorities simpler, more user-friendly, and supportive of setting up industries on smaller plots.
- The first committee, chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary of the planning department, will focus on unlocking areas outside the purview of currently notified land, using successful practices from other states and addressing legal and procedural challenges, such as the need for fresh no-objection certificates.
- The second committee will address the high industrial land prices in Uttar Pradesh by comparing them with neighboring states, reviewing infrastructure standards, and suggesting measures to rationalize land pricing to reduce the cost of doing business.
- The third committee, chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary of the revenue department, aims to simplify building bylaws applicable to industrial land to facilitate faster approvals and smoother development processes for industrial projects.
- These committees' recommendations, expected within mid-August 2025, aim to unlock underutilized notified land, rationalize land pricing, and simplify bylaws to boost industrial investment and development in Uttar Pradesh.
