Buying Agricultural Land in Mathura District on the Yamuna Expressway: Tehsils, YEIDA Villages, Registry and the Rules

Mathura district holds the largest share of the villages on our YEIDA notified list, and its farmland pages are among the most visited on this site. It is also a district with its own rules: much of it lies on the Yamuna floodplain, and all of it falls within the Taj Trapezium Zone. This guide brings together what a buyer needs to know, from official records and dated reports.

Where the YEIDA villages are

Mathura’s tehsils are Mathura, Mahavan, Chhata, Mant (Mat) and Goverdhan, according to the district website. The YEIDA notified villages on our list fall in three of them:

YEIDA’s own records bring Mathura villages into its area through three notifications: one of 22 August 2001 (villages in Mathura Sadar and Mat), one of 27 August 2007 (further villages in Mat and Mathura), and one of 21 July 2009 (Mahavan and Mant). Counts differ slightly between sources, so treat the notification itself as authoritative. Check a specific village in our notified village list.

What YEIDA is planning in Mathura

YEIDA’s second-phase master plan covers parts of Mathura, Agra, Aligarh and Hathras, and was reported approved by the state in March 2025, with a heritage city and a logistics park among its components. The heritage city, planned at Raya near the expressway, has moved slowly. Reports give its size as roughly 750 acres. A November 2025 report, from a broker website that did not name its source, said a YEIDA board proposal would expand it to about 3,000 acres. We found no YEIDA notice confirming either figure or any approval of an expansion:

• October 2024: YEIDA said the master plan had been approved, with a link road from the expressway.
• October 2025: monsoon floodwater reached the site, and YEIDA ordered a fresh survey.
• March 2026: a revised draft was reviewed, with flood risk to be reassessed.
• August 2026: reports said the tender had been approved, with Cabinet clearance and developer selection still pending, at a reported cost of about ₹6,922 crore.

A plan is not a project. Until the heritage city has its approvals and a developer, treat claims that a parcel is “next to Heritage City” as marketing. Reported costs have ranged widely over two years, which is itself a sign of a plan still changing.

Registering a deed in Mathura

The national land-records portal lists five sub-registrar offices for the district: Sadar First, Sadar Second, Chhata, Mant and Mahavan. In August 2026 a new sub-registrar office for Goverdhan was reported as starting within weeks; Goverdhan residents had previously registered at Sadar or Chhata.

The district’s final circle-rate list was approved on 10 November 2025. Reported increases were more than 10% for urban rates, about 10% for residential, 10 to 15% for industrial and about 5% for rural areas. Look up the rate for your village and sub-registrar office on igrsup.gov.in, and see our guides to circle rates and stamp duty and registry.

Rules that matter more in Mathura

• The Yamuna floodplain. After proceedings before the National Green Tribunal, the Central Water Commission mapped the Yamuna floodplain across Uttar Pradesh districts; in Mathura the mapped floodplain was reported as 4.65 km wide on the left bank and 3.71 km on the right, with new construction restricted within it. In October 2025 the NGT sought replies over a housing project on floodplain land in Sadar tehsil, and in July 2026 the Supreme Court ordered status quo and stopped further construction in the river channel at Vrindavan.
• Khadar land. Many village names end in “Khadar” (low-lying land by the river) or “Bangar” (upland). Khadar parcels are the ones most likely to fall in the floodplain; check before buying anything you might want to build on.
• The Taj Trapezium Zone. In M.C. Mehta v. Union of India (1996), the Supreme Court described the zone as covering Agra, Mathura, Firozabad and Bharatpur districts and ordered polluting industries in it to switch fuels or relocate. Industrial use of land in the zone faces environmental restrictions.
• YEIDA approval. Inside the notified area, construction needs YEIDA’s approval, and agricultural land is not buildable by default. See farmland and farmhouse rules.

Before you buy in Mathura

1. Confirm the village is on the YEIDA notified list, and whether it is Khadar or Bangar land.
2. Check the khatauni, category and co-sharers on UP Bhulekh: see checking khatauni and land categories.
3. Ask the tehsil whether the khasra falls in the mapped floodplain.
4. Get a 12-year encumbrance search and certified copies of earlier deeds.
5. Be sceptical of “heritage city” or “expressway-facing” premiums until approvals exist.

Common questions

Please verify before you commit. Plans, rates and court orders change. This is general information, not legal advice; check the position for your specific khasra with the tehsil, YEIDA and an advocate.

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