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Yikes. It sucks that you had to go through this. I find it appalling that so many bureaucratic jobs exist only to sustain their own existence: providing little value to those who pay their salary via taxes.

Do you think this process would've been (significantly?) simpler if it wasn't agricultural land involved?

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All land is Agricultural Land by default unless it comes under Municipal borders of a city or owned by MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation).

So yes, the whole point of this NA document is to convert the agricultural land into non-agricultural land on paper.

I can understand why it's a complicated problem then. As far as I know over here (and I don't know shit), the local government (on a county level) sets zones according to a "destination plan"; residential, commercial or agricultural.

You'd apply for a plot of land in a commercial district for a project like this. Else, you'd need to get in touch with the county so that they vote on changing the destination plan.

I'm fairly sure the county itself will handle a lot of the infrastructure hurdles mentioned in this post, e.g. power lines, irrigation, etc.

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