🏗️ Yamuna Expressway: The Next Big Growth Corridor for Investment, Jobs & Population Boom


YEIDA Entry


Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) is today among the fastest-growing industrial and urban corridors in North India. Strategically connecting Delhi-NCR to Agra and housing India’s biggest upcoming airport — Noida International Airport (Jewar Airport) — this corridor is witnessing unprecedented investment from domestic and global companies.

In this blog, we will cover:

  • Which major companies have invested in YEIDA land so far

  • How much land and money they have committed

  • How many jobs they are likely to create in the next 5 years

  • And what this means for the future population and urbanisation of the reYEIDAgion.

Let’s dive in!


📌 Why Investors & Companies Prefer Yamuna Expressway

The Yamuna Expressway region has emerged as an attractive hotspot due to:

  • Proximity to Delhi-NCR & upcoming Jewar Airport (Asia’s biggest airport on completion)

  • World-class road connectivity (165 km six-lane expressway from Greater Noida to Agra)

  • Planned industrial sectors for electronics, semiconductor, medical device parks, logistics, film city and more

  • Favourable policies by the Uttar Pradesh government & YEIDA for industrial land allotment, single window clearances, and infrastructure support.

Over the last 3 years, this region has attracted huge investments in manufacturing, electronics, automobile parts, semiconductor units, film & entertainment city, and even smart cities for Japanese and Korean industries.


🏢 Major Companies Investing in YEIDA: Sector-Wise Overview

Below is a detailed list of some prominent companies, the sectors where they have invested, their land area and the investment amounts.

1️⃣ Electronics & Semiconductor

✅ Havells India Ltd

  • Sector: Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (Sector 10)

  • Land: 50 acres (anchor unit)

  • Investment: ₹800 crore

  • Jobs: 1,000+ direct jobs by 2026

✅ Amber Enterprises India Ltd

  • Sector: Electronics

  • Land: 100 acres

  • Investment: Part of ₹4,000 crore consortium with other tech majors

  • Jobs: Significant jobs in AC and appliance components manufacturing

✅ Ascent-K Circuit & Aurionpro Toshi

  • Sector: Printed Circuit Boards, Automation Systems

  • Land: 21 acres combined

  • Investment: Part of same ₹4,000 crore cluster

  • Jobs: Electronics engineers & skilled technicians

✅ HCL-Foxconn JV

  • Sector: Semiconductor Manufacturing (Sector 28)

  • Land: 48 acres

  • Investment: ₹3,706 crore

  • Jobs: ~2,000 jobs directly; boosts India’s self-reliance in chip production.


2️⃣ Automobile Parts & Engineering

✅ Minda Corporation Ltd (with Daesung & Loconav)

  • Sector: Ignition, steering, wire harness systems

  • Land: 22 acres + 10 acres (two units)

  • Investment: ₹524 crore + ₹508 crore

  • Jobs: ~2,275 skilled jobs for auto engineers and workers.

✅ Escorts-Kubota JV

  • Sector: Tractor parts & engines

  • Land: 200 acres

  • Investment: ₹4,500 crore

  • Jobs: Massive local employment for welders, fitters, mechanical engineers.


3️⃣ Medical Devices & Health Tech

✅ TI Medical Pvt Ltd

  • Sector: Medical Devices (Sector 28)

  • Land: 11 acres

  • Investment: ₹211 crore

  • Jobs: 500+ direct healthcare manufacturing jobs

✅ Poly Medicure Ltd

  • Sector: Medical Devices (Sector 28)

  • Land: 7 acres

  • Investment: ₹150 crore

  • Jobs: 300+ direct jobs

✅ Medical Device Park (Sector 28)

  • Overall: 59 companies allotted plots on 350 acres

  • Investment: ₹415 crore for first phase

  • Jobs: ~5,000 jobs

Additionally, YEIDA is constructing a Flatted Factory Complex worth ₹125 crore to support 252 MSME units, start-ups and ancillary medical device suppliers.


4️⃣ Construction Materials

✅ Fuji Silvertech Concrete Pvt Ltd

  • Sector: Precast concrete technology (Sector 32)

  • Land: 20 acres

  • Investment: ₹345 crore

  • Jobs: ~5,844 direct & indirect jobs.


5️⃣ Food & FMCG

✅ Bikanerwala Foods Pvt Ltd

  • Sector: Food Processing (Sector 24)

  • Land: Approx 10 acres

  • Investment: ₹160 crore

  • Jobs: Hundreds of direct factory & logistics jobs.


6️⃣ Film City & Entertainment

✅ Bayview Bhutani Film City Pvt Ltd (Boney Kapoor + Bhutani Group)

  • Sector: Film & Entertainment City (Sector 21)

  • Land: 230 acres (155 industrial + 75 commercial)

  • Investment: ₹10,000 crore

  • Jobs: Approx. 500,000 jobs in the long term including direct & indirect (film studios, post production, hospitality, tourism).


🚀 New Smart Cities: Japanese & Korean Industrial Clusters

YEIDA has planned dedicated Japanese & Korean Industrial Cities near the Expressway:

  • Land: 5,000 acres to be acquired

    • Japanese City: 395 hectares (~975 acres)

    • Korean City: 365 hectares (~900 acres)

    • Fintech City: 250 acres

  • These clusters will attract hi-tech industries, R&D, automotive, electronics, robotics & finance companies.


📈 Total Expected Investment & Job Creation

  • Confirmed investments so far: ~₹3.3 lakh crore (including mega projects like Film City, semiconductor, electronics clusters)

  • Total jobs in next 5 years: Estimated 450,000 – 500,000 direct & indirect jobs

    • Electronics: 50,000+

    • Semiconductor: 2,000+

    • Film City: up to 5 lakh jobs over multiple phases

    • Medical Device Park & MSME units: 5,000+

    • Auto parts & engineering: 10,000+

This scale of employment will dramatically boost migration, housing demand, local commerce, and support services.


🏘️ Projected Population Growth

  • Current YEIDA residential areas (sectors 18, 20, 22D, 17) already seeing fast occupancy.

  • With the airport and massive job creation, YEIDA’s urban population could grow to 8–10 lakh people in the next 5–7 years.

  • New townships, group housing, commercial hubs, malls, schools, hospitals are coming up at a record pace.


✅ Conclusion: Future Ready, Investment Ready

From a quiet industrial corridor, Yamuna Expressway is fast transforming into India’s most promising economic powerhouse — driven by world-class infrastructure, big ticket FDI, domestic manufacturing revival and the upcoming international airport.

👉 What it means for investors:

  • Higher returns on residential plots & commercial spaces

  • Massive rental demand from workers & professionals

  • Good appreciation in land value as industries start full operations

  • Opportunities to partner with MSMEs, logistic hubs, hotels & retail

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