With unauthorised expansion already consuming more than 50 per cent of the total area under the Nayagaon Nagar Panchayat, the Punjab government has not found any plot available for a city centre in Nayagaon. The draft Master Plan of Nayagaon-2021 proposes only a district centre as a greenfield project. Though spatial planning of Nayagaon is constrained by many factors, which none of the new towns in Chandigarh's periphery have faced so far, the Department of Local Government has felt the need for a planned future growth and development of Nayagaon. According to the planners, whatever the limitations, the moot point is whether the area touching the perceptional head of Chandigarh body (Capitol Complex) can be allowed to grow unplanned as extensions of the existing inhabited area. The Master Plan has proposed to develop Nayagaon as a low-density town with low-rise buildings within a radius of one kilometre from the eastern end of the Secretariat building. An important factor taken into account in the planning is the low density development in Sectors 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Chandigarh. Other than the Capitol Complex, the existence of Sukhna lake, which is totally dependent on rains and the resultant runoff, has been kept in mind while framing the proposals. In view of the population growth of 84.5 per cent from 15,205 in 1991 to 28,053 in 2001 (Census figures), the master planners anticipate a population of 50,000 by 2011 and if this trend continues, Nayagaon will attain the status of a city by 2021. Keeping in view the increasing population, required commensurate social infrastructure, fragile ecology and environs of Sukhna, Shivalik hills and edifice of the Capitol Complex, it was planned to ensure orderly growth of Nayagaon for a population of 1 lakh by 2021, with a review in 2011. Other planning considerations include integration of Karoran village with Kansal by road via Khuda Ali Sher to avoid any interference in the mixed forest that is part of Nayagaon municipal area; least interference in the existing road network, considering it a social issue and to avoid removal of any construction unless essentially required for the larger cause of the society; least interference in the forestland of Kansal; and no industrial development in Nayagaon , except information technology and IT-enabled services in any zone.