The board of the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has cleared a proposal for developing a new residential township on 541 hectares near the Delhi Meerut Road at an estimated cost of about Rs 3,000 crore.

The new township will be named as -Harnadnipuram-, after river Hindon near which the project is located, locally, Hindon is known as Harnandi.

The land from eight villages will be procured from farmers for the development of the proposed township. These eight villages are Mathurapur, Nagla Firoz Mohanpur, Shamsher, Champat Nagar, Bhneda Khurd, Shahpur Morta, Morta and Bhovapur.

The location of the new township is about three km inside from the Delhi Meerut Road and it is proposed at rear of Raj Nagar Extension. The proposed site is approachable via the Hindon elevated road, Northern Peripheral Expressway, Raj Nagar Extension Ring Road and also from the Duhai station of the RRTS network.

Apart from housing and commercial activities, it also includes medicity, a health-care hub, and also an IT hub.