The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) has initiated work on a 10,000-acre greenfield urban centre in Hathras under its Master Plan 2041, with the project conceived as a major manufacturing and logistics hub linked to the Noida International Airport at Jewar. The proposed Hathras Urban Centre, one of four major urban nodes planned alongside Aligarh, Mathura and Agra, will cover nearly 4,000 hectares across 50 villages in Hathras and Sasni tehsils and is being presented as a mixed-use industrial and residential satellite town. RV Engineering Consultants Limited has been appointed to prepare the master plan using GIS-based mapping technology and officials said the layout will include dedicated industrial, residential, commercial-logistics and extensive green zones. More than 15 per cent of the planning area has been reserved for green and open space to maintain ecological balance and support sustainable urbanisation. The authority said infrastructure design will prioritise connectivity and utility corridors to service both manufacturing clusters and residential neighbourhoods. Officials said the city’s location within the catchment area of the Noida International Airport, combined with connectivity through the Yamuna Expressway and other state highways, is expected to make the centre attractive to manufacturing and logistics investors and to serve as a satellite town for Agra to ease industrial pressure on that city. The project is intended to build on Hathras’s existing industrial base of more than 10,000 registered micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Industries supported under the One District One Product (ODOP) scheme, including hing and gulal manufacturers, are expected to gain from export-oriented infrastructure and upgraded packaging facilities. The master plan proposes dedicated industrial clusters for food processing, dairy, hosiery, glass beads, brass jewellery, machine tools and electric vehicle components, and officials indicated that a later phase will target advanced manufacturing such as medical equipment and power grid machinery. Work on the detailed project report and land acquisition has begun and the authority said the scheme is expected to generate large-scale direct and indirect employment and to position Hathras as a new industrial growth centre in western Uttar Pradesh. The chief minister inaugurated and laid foundation stones for 143 development projects worth over Rs 5,480 mn during a visit to Hathras.