GMADA Base Rates 2025-26: What the 26% Jump in IT City and Aerocity Actually Means

• ₹71,500Sectors 53–71from ₹65,000, about +10%
• ₹70,000Sectors 76–80from ₹63,400, about +10%
• ₹65,000Sector 81+, IT City, Aerocityfrom ₹51,500, about +26%
• ₹45,000Industrial, Sectors 57-A & 101from ₹36,900, about +22%

The revised base rates, sector by sector

These are the rates as revised for 2025–26, reported in November 2025. We could not find a published 2026–27 revision, so treat these as the latest confirmed figures and check with GMADA before relying on them for a live transaction.

All figures are per square yard.

What a base rate is actually for

This is the part that gets skipped. GMADA's base rate applies to:

• allotments to government, semi-government and non-government organisations;
• implementing court orders; and
• fixing non-construction fees — the charge levied when an allottee does not build within the permitted period.

That third use is the one most likely to reach an ordinary owner. If you hold an allotted plot and have not built on it, a 26% rise in the base rate is not an abstract statistic — it is a direct increase in what you may be charged for continuing to hold it empty.

Three numbers, three jobs

1. Base rate — GMADA's internal reference, as above. Not a market valuation.
2. Collector rate — the district's minimum value for stamp duty and registration. You cannot register a sale below it, so it sets the floor of your transaction cost, and it is the basis from which compensation is calculated if your land is acquired.
3. Market rate — what a willing buyer actually paid last month for a comparable unit. It is the only one of the three that reflects demand, and it is the only one you should use to decide whether a price is fair.

A seller quoting a base rate or a collector rate as evidence of value is quoting the wrong number. It is not necessarily dishonest — these get conflated constantly — but it is not a valuation.

What the 26% jump actually signals

The steepest revision landed on exactly the belt GMADA is developing: Sector 81 and above, IT City, Aerocity, Eco City and the Aerotropolis pooled plots. Those sectors moved from the lowest band to within ₹5,000–₹6,500 of the established Mohali sectors in a single revision.

Read conservatively, that tells you the authority no longer treats the new belt as a discount zone. It does not tell you that market prices moved 26%, and it should not be quoted to you as if it did.

Before you agree a price

1. Ask for three recent registered comparables in the same sector and size band — registered, not asking prices.
2. Check the collector rate for that revenue estate, so you know your stamp duty floor before you negotiate rather than after.
3. If it is an allotted plot, ask whether non-construction fees are outstanding, and who pays them. With base rates up 10–26%, this is a live number, not a formality.
4. Separate the sector story from the property. IT City being repriced upward by the authority is not a reason to overpay for a particular plot inside it.

Sources

• The Tribune — GMADA hikes base rate of plots in Mohali (2025–26 revision, reported November 2025)
• The Tribune — Mohali implements new collector rates
• GMADA — for the current position before any transaction

Rates change. These were the latest published figures we could verify at the time of writing; confirm with GMADA or your registering authority before acting on them. General information, not valuation or investment advice.