Land rate per katha in Howrah is not one number — it’s at least three, and the district’s own government data disagrees with itself on the government floor price. This report pulls together what’s actually verifiable as of August 2026: West Bengal circle rates, live listing data by block, an official industrial park record, and a national price index — and it says plainly where the data runs out and a range is the honest answer.
Before the numbers: this site uses the standard West Bengal convention of 1 Katha = 720 sq ft. If you need to convert a figure quoted in Bigha, Decimal, or Chatak, see West Bengal Land Measurement Units or the land measurement converter.
The circle rate conflict, up front
Two circle-rate aggregators, both citing the West Bengal Directorate of Registration & Stamp Revenue, give very different numbers for Howrah:
| Source | Residential rate | Commercial rate | As-of |
|---|---|---|---|
| FindCircleRate | ₹3,800/sq. m (≈₹353/sq ft) | ₹5,130/sq. m | FY2026-27 |
| Hexahome | ₹4,275/sq ft | ₹5,762/sq ft | Revised September 2025 |
Converted to a common unit, these are roughly 10x apart — ₹353/sq ft versus ₹4,275/sq ft. That’s not a rounding difference; it almost certainly means the two sites are quoting circle rates for different mouzas or localities under the same “Howrah” label, because West Bengal’s Market Value system is set mouza by mouza, not district-wide. Neither figure should be taken as the Howrah circle rate.
What this means practically: for the number that actually governs your stamp duty, use the Market Value calculator on the official IGR West Bengal portal (wbregistration.gov.in) with your specific mouza name and plot/dag number. Anything else — including this post’s district-level figures — is directional, not a substitute for that lookup.
Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) area
Inside HMC wards, per-sq-ft flat prices (from 99acres, checked August 2026) give a sense of the value gradient across localities:
| Locality | Rate (flats, per sq ft) | YoY change |
|---|---|---|
| Golabari | ₹12,600 | +10.5% |
| Shalimar | ₹6,600 | −13.7% |
| Shibpur | ₹6,500 | +20.4% |
| Santragachi | ₹5,450 | +3.8% (+39.7% over 5 yrs) |
| Liluah | ₹3,000 | +14.3% |
These are apartment prices, not raw land — a flat’s per-sq-ft rate includes construction, so plotted land in the same ward runs below it, not at it. But the ranking is still useful: Golabari and Shibpur, both near Howrah Station and the Howrah Maidan metro terminus, sit at the top; Santragachi and Liluah trail behind.
For actual land listings, the data is thinner and more scattered — individual asking prices rather than a benchmark. One Argori plot listing quoted ₹2.29 lakh per katha; an Andul Road land-with-house listing worked out to roughly ₹1,307/sq ft (≈₹9.4 lakh/katha), though that figure includes an existing structure, not bare land. Treat both as single data points, not a range you can rely on district-wide.
The NHB Residex caveat. The National Housing Bank’s Residex for Q1 FY26 (Apr-Jun 2025) recorded Howrah’s housing price index falling 6.1% year-on-year — the steepest decline of any of the 50 cities NHB tracks, even while 45 of those 50 cities posted gains. This index tracks bank-valued flat transactions city-wide, not raw land parcels, so it doesn’t directly contradict the locality-level gains 99acres shows for Shibpur or Liluah — but it’s a genuine, sourced counter-signal against assuming Howrah land is on a straight upward line. Both things are true at once, and a buyer should weigh both rather than pick the one that supports a decision already made.
Metro context. Howrah Maidan is the western terminus of Kolkata Metro’s Green Line, connected through to Salt Lake Sector V on 22 August 2025, running through India’s first underwater metro tunnel beneath the Hooghly. A westward extension from Howrah Maidan to Santragachi Bus Terminus is proposed and under study (per Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation planning, as reflected on Wikipedia’s Green Line article) — it is not funded or under construction as of this writing, so it belongs in this report as a watch item for Santragachi-side land, not as a price driver yet.
Domjur & Sankrail
This is Howrah’s industrial spine, built around the NH-6 corridor and the Dhulagarh/Dhulagori belt.
The anchor here is Poly Park, Sankrail — a West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) park for petrochemical downstream industries, spanning over 60 acres with 55.04 acres allottable, spread across Mouzas Kandua and Sandhipur. Per WBIDC’s own page, all 46 serviced plots are now fully allotted, with tenants including Megaflex Plastics, Tarsons Products, and Weilburger Coatings, generating an estimated 900 direct and 3,000 indirect jobs. A fully-allotted government park means fresh industrial land here now comes only through resale — which is reflected in resale asking prices.
Compiling several Domjur/Dhulagarh industrial land listings (realestateindia.com, checked August 2026) and working out the per-katha rate from each:
| Listing | Price | Per Katha |
|---|---|---|
| 120 Katha plot | ₹7.80 Cr | ₹6.50 lakh |
| 60 Katha plot | ₹3.60 Cr | ₹6.00 lakh |
| 20 Katha plot | ₹1.10 Cr | ₹5.50 lakh |
| 1 Bigha (20 Katha), Ranihati | ₹1.10 Cr | ₹5.50 lakh |
| 12 Bigha (240 Katha), Junglepur | ₹12 Cr | ₹5.00 lakh |
Five independent listings, all landing between ₹5-6.5 lakh per katha for organized industrial plotting along this corridor — a tighter, more credible cluster than most single-listing figures elsewhere in this report. These are asking prices from live listings, not confirmed sale-deed values, and a few “Call for Price” listings on the same pages were excluded because they carry no number to check.
Separately, industrial land at Dhulagori on NH-6 was listed for rent at ₹12/sq ft (IndiaMART) — a rental figure, not a sale price, but it confirms active commercial demand along this stretch.
Ranihati-Amta Road is the other corridor worth watching: it connects to NH-6 and is drawing both industrial development (Amta Industrial Park I, Shree Shyam Infra warehousing) and new residential projects (Neelkanth Chitrakut Heights, DTC Capital City), per Prop Vestors’ coverage of the area. No verified per-katha figure for this specific stretch turned up in this research — flagged honestly as a corridor to track rather than a number to quote.
Uluberia
Uluberia is Howrah’s rural sub-divisional town, sitting on the NH-6/NH-16 spine southwest of the industrial belt.
The clearest data point: a 93-Katha highway-frontage plot near the Uluberia BG petrol pump (Jagatpur, Mansatala Mor, on NH-16, about 1 km off a 16-foot road) is listed at ₹6 lakh per katha — and this exact figure and location recur across three independent listing channels (RealEstateIndia, Waa2, and a local Facebook marketplace post), which gives it more weight than a single scattered listing.
Inside the town itself, smaller residential plots price higher: a 2-Katha plot was listed at ₹17 lakh, working out to roughly ₹8.5 lakh per katha — a meaningful premium over highway-frontage land, consistent with in-town residential plots commanding more than raw roadside acreage.
For land further off the highway, in the interior mouzas of the Uluberia I and Uluberia II blocks, no reliable current per-katha figure surfaced in this research. Rather than estimate one, the honest statement is: prices there are materially lower than the NH-6/NH-16 frontage figures above, and a local Sub-Registrar office or BLRO check remains the only way to get a number you can rely on for a specific plot.
Other blocks: Panchla, Amta, Jagatballavpur, Bally-Jagachha
These blocks appear regularly in Howrah’s administrative and industrial-directory data (Panchla, for instance, hosts its own light-industrial listings), but this research did not turn up a verifiable, sourceable per-katha or per-decimal figure specific enough to print with confidence. One scattered listing (a ~79-decimal plot in Jagatballavpur) produced a per-decimal rate low enough to suggest either a partial/token price or a measurement mismatch rather than a market rate, so it’s excluded here rather than repeated as fact. If you’re transacting in these blocks, the circle rate lookup on the IGR West Bengal portal plus a local broker check is the reliable path — this report won’t manufacture a number it can’t back up.
How to use these numbers
- Government floor (circle rate): look up your exact mouza on wbregistration.gov.in — don’t rely on a district-average figure from any aggregator, including the ones cited above.
- Market/asking price: the ranges in this report (₹5-6.5 lakh/katha for Domjur-Sankrail industrial plotting, ~₹6 lakh/katha for Uluberia highway frontage, a wide and thinly-documented spread across HMC wards) are asking prices pulled from live listings in August 2026, not a certified average. Land prices move fast and listing prices often sit above eventual transaction prices — use these as a starting range for negotiation, not a ceiling or floor.
- Where sources conflict — as they do on the Howrah circle rate — this report has said so rather than picking one number to look more decisive than the underlying data supports.