Land Pooling Policy 2025

Whereas, the Punjab Government in the Department of Housing and Urban Development is committed to create well-planned urban estates that meet the needs of growing population by consolidating fragmented land parcels and ensuring equitable and sustainable development. With a view to boost the planned Urban Development, to ease the complicacies of compulsory land acquisition, to make the Land Owners as stake holders in Urban Development and to share with them the benefits of such developments, the following Land Pooling Policy for acquisition of land under The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARR, 2013)and purchase of land by Authorities through direct negotiations with the land owners for Punjab state is issued as under :-

Land Pooling Policy, 2025

(1) This policy shall be applicable in all Special Development Authorities under the Department of Housing and Urban Planning and Development (Except Low/High Density Land Pooling Policy, which is only Meant for New Chandigarh area of GMADA), from the date of its issuance.

(2) This policy supersedes the earlier Land Pooling Policies. Further, this Land Pooling Policy shall cover Land Pooling for various land use sectors like residential, commercial/mixed use, Industrial, Institutional Urban Estates and Integrated Industrial parks, etc.

(3) This land pooling policy shall be applicable to land acquisitions in which the award for acquisition is yet to be passed or direct negotiations are made after the date of notification of this policy.

(4) This policy provides issuance of Sahuliyat Certificates to the land owners.

(1) Land Pooling Policy for the smaller Land Holders:-

(A) Land Pooling Policy For Residential Sectors:-

Authorities will give 1000 Sq. Yds. developed residential plot and 200 Sq. Yds. developed commercial site (apart from parking space) in lieu of each acre of agriculture land offered by the land owner under Land Pooling Scheme. Accordingly, the existing provisions regarding allotment of developed residential plot and commercial site.......................

Housing 1 Branch, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Government of Punjab

Notification No. H-U-H1/45/2025-6H1/759 Dated 04-06-2025