Buying or leasing land for solar in Gujarat (and the NA trap)
Title, substation distance and NA conversion — where projects live or die.
The wrong plot can sink a solar project before it starts — bad title, no spare evacuation capacity, or an NA-conversion that drags. Here is how land actually works for solar in Gujarat.
Title & diligence
Verify the 7/12, 8A and mutation entries on AnyROR, run a 30-year title search, and check tenancy bars (Sec 63 for non-farmers, Sec 73AA for tribal land). Brokers who don’t actually own the parcel are a common trap.
NA conversion
Solar is NOT automatically NA on private agricultural land. Conversion is via Section 65 GLRC on the iORA portal; a 2025 cabinet move targets “NA in 10 days” and cut the premium to 10% of jantri. Government wasteland allotted to park developers is deemed-NA — but that is a different route.