Greater Noida Authority reclaims Rs 125 crore of land, razing an illegal colony across two villages

Around September 2, the Greater Noida Authority demolished a boundary wall and cleared encroachments across roughly 62,500 square metres of Authority land spanning Nanwa Rajpur and Atai Muradpur villages – land valued at about Rs 125 crore. According to the reporting, a coloniser had been preparing to carve the land into an unauthorised residential colony before the Authority’s enforcement team moved in.

It follows the same enforcement pattern seen in other recent Authority actions against unauthorised colonies on the region’s outer edges.

For buyers, this is the clearest kind of buyer-protection reminder: never purchase a plot or flat in an unlisted or unapproved colony without first checking the title and the Authority’s own land records. Land being informally subdivided and sold on notified Authority land can be reclaimed and bulldozed – and when that happens, the financial loss falls on the buyer, not the coloniser. Verifying approvals and ownership before you pay is the single best protection against exactly this situation.

Sources: NCR Khabar (Sep 2, 2026), Raftar Today (Sep 2, 2026)