The Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Notified Area — better known as NAINA — is one of India's most ambitious urban development projects. Spanning over 600 square kilometres across 270 villages in the Raigad and Thane districts, NAINA represents nothing less than the planned creation of a new city to complement Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Conceived by CIDCO (City and Industrial Development Corporation), it is a foundational piece of the Mumbai 3.0 vision.
What Exactly is NAINA?
NAINA was created to manage and direct the development expected to follow the establishment of the Navi Mumbai International Airport. Rather than allowing unplanned, ad-hoc growth to consume the land around the airport — as happened in many other Indian cities — the Maharashtra government notified CIDCO as the planning authority for the entire influence zone.
The project covers areas including Ulwe, Kharghar, Dronagiri, Pushpak Nagar, Panvel, and large swaths of surrounding agricultural and forest land. The vision is a planned, sustainable urban environment with integrated zoning for residential, commercial, industrial, and green space.
Key Features of the NAINA Master Plan
- Planned road network: Wide arterial roads, ring roads, and feeder connections linking all major nodes within the NAINA zone, with direct ties to the Mumbai–Pune Expressway, NH-48, and the upcoming ring road around MMR.
- Metro and rail connectivity: Multiple metro lines are planned to pass through NAINA, connecting residents directly to Navi Mumbai, Thane, and eventually Mumbai's central business districts.
- Mixed-use zoning: The master plan balances residential zones with commercial corridors, IT parks, logistics hubs, and significant green buffers to prevent the congestion that plagues older Indian cities.
- Smart infrastructure: NAINA is being designed with modern utilities — underground cabling, digital infrastructure, solid waste management, and sewage treatment — from the outset rather than retrofitted later.
- Affordable and market housing: Like CIDCO's original Navi Mumbai project, NAINA includes provisions for affordable housing schemes alongside market-rate development, ensuring a socially diverse city.
What This Means for Property Buyers
NAINA is a long-term story — some parts of it will take decades to fully develop. But for property buyers today, the key insight is this: the areas closest to the airport that already have existing residential infrastructure — Pushpak Nagar, Ulwe, parts of Panvel — are the ones best positioned to benefit from NAINA's growth without waiting for it.
These are places where you can buy a finished, liveable home today, in a neighbourhood that already functions, while the NAINA development gradually improves connectivity, adds employment, and appreciates the value of your investment around you.
Why Priyakanthji Group Builds Here
We chose to focus our development work in the NAINA influence zone more than a decade ago — not because it was fashionable, but because the fundamentals were undeniable. Planned city development anchored by an international airport, backed by CIDCO, with Maharashtra state government commitment: very few residential markets in India offer that combination of stability and growth potential.
Every project we build is a long-term bet on this region. And we build it the same way we would for ourselves — with honest materials, proper documentation, and a genuine concern for the people who will call it home.
If you would like to understand how NAINA's development trajectory maps to specific areas and projects, our team is happy to share what we see on the ground.