A landmark day for Noida real estate — 222nd Board Meeting delivers two major policy wins

The 222nd  Board Meeting of the Noida Authority, held on 6th April 2026 under the chairmanship of Shri Deepak Kumar , Infrastructure & Industrial Development Commissioner, Uttar Pradesh, and chaired by Shri Krishna Karunesh, CEO, Noida Authority has taken two decisions that will be remembered as genuinely significant milestones for Noida’s real estate landscape.

Our Founder Jatin K Goyal has closely studied the Board’s official press release and the detailed agenda and believe these decisions deserve careful attention from every stakeholder — developer, homebuyer, investor and legal advisor alike.

📋 Decision 1 — One Time Settlement Policy-2026 (OTS)

The Board has granted in-principle approval to the One Time Settlement Policy-2026, covering allottees and defaulters across group housing, residential building, commercial, institutional, industrial, IT and ITES categories. Formal implementation will follow after guidance from the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

This is not a routine policy tweak. In a real estate market like Noida, old dues, legacy disputes and pending compliance issues silently choke project completion, delay registries, discourage fresh investment and keep thousands of homebuyers in limbo. A well-designed OTS breaks that cycle. It offers a lawful, dignified exit from financial gridlock — for allottees, for developers and ultimately for the urban economy.

The Authority’s own track record supports optimism here. Under the legacy stalled-project scheme, 36 out of 57 identified projects had availed policy benefits by 16 March 2026, and 4,364 flat buyers had already received registration. That is not a statistic — that is 4,364 families who got what they had waited years for. OTS-2026 can potentially do the same at a much larger scale.

🏟️ Decision 2 — Sports City Revival: End of a 5-year freeze

This is the decision that the entire real estate and legal community in Noida has been watching closely for a long time.

In compliance with the Supreme Court’s order in SLP No. 6118/2025 dated 24.11.2025, the Board has approved the revised layout / land-use plan for Sports City Plot SC-02, Sector 150, and has also withdrawn the restrictive decisions from the 201st Board Meeting (18.01.2021) and the 202nd Board Meeting (25.06.2021) in respect of map revalidation, revised maps, new maps and occupancy-certificate related processing for all Sports City projects.

To understand why this matters, a brief context is essential. Noida has four Sports City allotments from the year 2011 to 2014 to Xanadu (Sectors 78, 79 & 101), Logix (SC-01/150), Lotus Greens (SC-02/150) and ATS (SC-01/152). The original scheme was built on a clear condition: 70% of land for sports facilities, 30% for residential and commercial use, with at least 15% sports infrastructure to be in place before any other activity could proceed. When CAG audit objections in 2019 raised serious concerns about implementation, the 201st Board Meeting imposed a blanket freeze on map approvals and occupancy-related processing for these projects. That freeze, while legally prudent at the time, had the unintended consequence of paralysing thousands of homebuyers for nearly five years.

The matter was heard by Public accounts committee of the State Assembly for couple of years and then passed instructions to Authority to proceed last year.The Supreme Court ultimately directed that the ban be lifted within 30–45 days of the Court’s order, and former Supreme Court Judge Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya, in his legal opinion obtained by the Authority, clearly stated that “the total ban should be lifted in respect of all Sports City projects of NOIDA including Sector 78-79 & 101, 150 and 152.”

The 222nd Board has now acted. This is the regulatory reset that developers, buyers and advisors had been awaiting.222-Board-Meeting-06-04-2026.pdf+1

💡 What this means for the market

  • For homebuyers: A lawful path to project movement, occupancy certificates and registrations — especially in Sports City projects where delivery had been frozen.222-agenda-regarding-201-ban-removed.pdf+1
  • For developers: Regulated revival with structured compliance obligations, revised planning framework and clearer dues-resolution timelines.222-Board-Meeting-06-04-2026.pdf+1
  • For investors: Regulatory certainty returning to high-potential sectors like 78, 79, 101, 150 and 152 — which had been trading at uncertainty discounts.222-agenda-regarding-201-ban-removed.pdf+1
  • For the market overall: A clear message that Noida chooses structured reform over prolonged indecision.222-Board-Meeting-06-04-2026.pdf+1

🙏 A well-deserved acknowledgement

Policy decisions of this magnitude do not happen without sustained political and administrative will. We take this opportunity to sincerely appreciate the efforts of Hon’ble Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Shri Deepak Kumar, Chairman, and Shri Krishna Karunesh, CEO, Noida Authority, along with all the concerned officials whose persistent engagement with complex legacy issues has resulted in these progressive, market-positive outcomes.

The Government of Uttar Pradesh‘s commitment to responsive, resolution-driven governance is visible here — and it deserves recognition.

At Headway Partners, we are available to guide developers, homebuyers and allottees in understanding the full implications of these decisions and in navigating the regulatory steps that follow.

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