Haryana pitches Gurugram's Global City to Gujarat industry: 1,000-acre township, Rs 1 lakh crore investment goal

What was pitched in Gujarat

The Global City project was the centrepiece of Haryana's investment outreach in Gujarat, where Saini met Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel to discuss coordination and cooperation on development, with Haryana Cabinet Minister Rao Narbir Singh also present. Haryana's industries officials presented the township as a city within a city built around live-work-play and walk-to-work ideas, drawing comparisons with Delhi's Connaught Place and Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex.

Alongside the project pitch, Haryana showcased incentives under its Make in Haryana Industrial Policy 2026, including capital subsidies and net State GST reimbursement, with officials saying incentive disbursement would be completed within 45 days. Saini also met Haryanvis living in Surat and Ahmedabad, announcing a dedicated online portal for them to register grievances and track resolution, and steps to set up a Haryana Bhavan in Gujarat as a centre for cultural, social and administrative activities.

What Global City is planned to be

Global City spans Sectors 36, 36B, 37, 37A and 37B along the Dwarka Expressway and is planned as a mixed-use township combining offices, homes, shops, hotels, hospitals, schools and community facilities in one integrated area. Its proposed features include a floor area ratio of 3.0, green-rated infrastructure, more than 50,000 trees and connectivity to Indira Gandhi International Airport within about 30 minutes, with a Namo Bharat rapid rail link also planned to serve the area.

HSIIDC, a wholly state-owned corporation, is building the trunk infrastructure such as roads, drainage, power, water and sewage networks, and then auctioning plots to private developers who will construct the towers, malls and housing. Developers including DLF, M3M, Godrej Properties, Sobha and Signature Global have shown interest in or acquired parcels, and the first-phase infrastructure contract, worth about Rs 940 crore and covering nearly 570 acres, is reported to be around 80% complete.

A long-delayed project, relaunched in 2023

Global City has had a long run-up: the idea of an integrated commercial hub on this land was first floated in 2016, it was formally announced as Global City, Haryana in 2019, and it was relaunched in earnest in 2023 with the first major land auctions held late that year, after years of limited movement partly linked to litigation over land in the area. The land itself came from a larger parcel of about 1,383.68 acres near Garhi Harsaru that HSIIDC had acquired in 2006-07 for a different project and which was returned to it in 2014 after an earlier special economic zone plan fell through.

The state government presents the township as a corrective to Gurugram's earlier growth pattern, in which the city expanded incrementally from the 1990s through many private developers working on individually licensed colonies, leaving infrastructure gaps that are still felt, particularly during the monsoon. Global City, by contrast, is planned as a single township with infrastructure laid first by HSIIDC, including common underground utility corridors, dedicated bus corridors and an internal transit system, and the government has also asked officials to prepare a plan for a world-class iconic tower at the site.

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