Town Master Plan
Mandigobindgarh (2010-2031)
Approximate map coordinates: 30.6708, 76.2969
This town/region is covered by a GMADA master plan. The documents below — the actual zoning, land-use, and planning detail — are hosted on and served directly from gmada.gov.in.
What This Master Plan Covers
Mandi Gobindgarh is known as the "Birmingham of Punjab" for its steel industry — the master plan report itself uses that description. The Local Planning Area was declared on 29 January 2008 and its boundaries amended on 10 August 2009, with Punjab's Chief Town Planner designated as the planning agency for the resulting 2010–2031 master plan.
A note on this page's map: GMADA's own site lists a land-use drawing for Mandi Gobindgarh, but the linked file currently serves an unrelated document rather than Gobindgarh's actual plan, so no extracted map image is shown here — the content below is drawn entirely from the genuine, verified master plan report instead.
A Steel Town's History
According to the report, the sixth Sikh Guru, Sri Hargobind Sahib, stayed in the area while fighting the Mughals and blessed it to become a steel town. Maharaja Hira Singh of Nabha laid the foundation stone for early industrial units in 1902, and Maharaja Pratap Singh of Nabha declared it a free trade zone for steel in 1928. The first steel re-rolling mill was established in 1940, and the town grew into an unregulated iron and steel market through the Second World War.
Scale and Population
The LPA covers 13,832 hectares (34,165 acres), including Gobindgarh town itself (9 sq km / 2,223 acres of municipal area) and 53 surrounding villages. Its 2001 census population was 118,796 (60,677 urban), growing at 33.28% over the previous decade, with density rising from 30 to 62 persons per hectare between 1981 and 2001.
The town sits on the Ambala–Ludhiana National Highway, 15km from the Fatehgarh Sahib district headquarters, with its own station on the Delhi–Amritsar broad-gauge railway line. Within the town itself, industrial use already occupies 33.74% of the land — versus 84.62% agricultural use across the wider LPA — underlining how much more built-up the core town is than its rural surroundings.
Reading the Plan
Two documents are on file for Mandi Gobindgarh — this master plan report and a separate proposed land-use drawing — both downloadable from this page, though see the note above about the drawing's link. As with every document on this portal, treat this as a reference copy of GMADA's planning intent rather than a live record — always confirm the current, in-force version directly with GMADA before relying on it for a specific parcel or transaction.