Nagpur metropolitan area

The Nagpur metropolitan area or Greater Nagpur is a metropolitan area in Indian state of Maharashtra.

In 1999, a notification was sent out by the State of Maharashtra announced the Nagpur Metropolitan Area, comprising Nagpur City, Nagpur Gramin, Hingna, Parshivni, Mauda, Kamptee taluka and parts of Savner, Kalmeshwar, Umred and Kuhi talukas.

The boundaries of the metro region around the municipal corporation limits of the city were described, and the Mumbai metropolitan area and Pune metro areas were declared.

24 December 2002, the government extended the jurisdiction of NIT[2] outside the NMC[3] limit under clause 1(2) of NIT Act-1936 as "Nagpur Metropolitan Area" [4] in connection to notification of 1999 which ranges approximately 25 to 40 km area away from NMC limit.

NIT proposed the metro region plan in two phases: NIT is framing the policy for metro region planning and once the plan is finalised, different town planning schemes will be taken up for development.