The Rajasthan government has issued a revised notification on the boundary of the Jaipur Development Authority's expanded jurisdiction, adding 41 villages and removing 12 from the area it had originally notified. The revision comes even as a case challenging the underlying expansion remains pending before the Rajasthan High Court, which has imposed a complete ban on construction activity across the disputed area in the meantime.
Under the revised notification, villages have been added mainly from Shahpura (15), Jobner (7), Chomu (4), Chaksu and Phulera (3 each), Virat Nagar in Kotputli-Behrod and Phagi (2 each), and one each from a handful of other tehsils. Twelve villages have been dropped, largely from Chaksu (4) and Bassi (3). Notably, JDA's jurisdiction now extends for the first time into the neighbouring Kotputli-Behrod district, taking in two villages there. The government said the changes were needed to correct duplicate entries — nine villages had mistakenly been listed under two different tehsils — and to drop a few villages considered too far from JDA headquarters.
This latest revision follows JDA's much larger expansion move, under which its jurisdiction was roughly doubled from about 3,000 to 6,000 square kilometres and around 632 additional revenue villages across 17 tehsils were brought under its control, extending its reach from a 40-km to a 60-km radius around the city. JDA has also internally redrawn its zone map for the enlarged area into 27 zones to manage planning and approvals.
For landowners in villages newly brought under JDA — or newly dropped from it — the practical consequences are significant and immediate. Coming under JDA means land-use classification, colony approval norms, building permission rules and development charges will follow JDA's framework instead of the earlier panchayat or municipal rules, and agricultural land will need JDA's conversion approval before any residential or commercial use. A village dropped from the notified area reverts to its earlier local-body jurisdiction for these same approvals. Because the High Court case is still pending and a construction ban applies across the disputed belt, anyone planning to build, buy or sell land in these villages should first confirm, village by village, whether their specific plot currently falls inside or outside JDA's notified boundary, and whether it lies in the area covered by the court's construction ban.
If you own or are looking to buy land in Jaipur's extension villages, Haqdar can help you check your plot's current jurisdiction and land-use status before you plan any construction or transaction.