Dahanu Taluka Regional Plan map online — zones & land use, Palghar

About Dahanu on the Palghar DP map

Dahanu is a taluka and coastal municipality in Palghar district, located approximately 43.9 km north-west of the district headquarters. As a tribal-dominated taluka covering 1,256.54 sq km with a population of 402,095, Dahanu was declared an 'Environmentally Fragile Area' by the Ministry of Environment, Forest in 1991. The taluka's Regional Plan was approved by the Maharashtra government in 2023. This page opens the Regional Plan layer covering Dahanu taluka as an interactive overlay on satellite imagery, enabling you to identify the designated land-use zone, agricultural reservations, and settlement boundaries for any location.

Dahanu taluka comprises mountainous and tribal areas in the east and a coastal region in the west. The primary economic activity is rice farming, which shapes the agricultural zoning in the Regional Plan. The taluka's Regional Plan approval represents a significant milestone in planning, replacing previous restrictions that stemmed from its 1991 Environmentally Fragile Area designation. To use the map, locate a settlement, village, or landmark within Dahanu taluka, then toggle the Regional Plan overlay to confirm the designated zone—whether agricultural, residential, or reserved—before undertaking development or land transactions.

The Dahanu Taluka Environment Protection Authority (DTEPA), constituted by the Supreme Court in 1996, previously governed development restrictions. The new Regional Plan balances environmental conservation with permitting controlled development and agricultural advancement. The interactive mapping tool integrates the Regional Plan with satellite imagery, allowing precise identification of zone boundaries, agricultural reservations, and settlement areas across Dahanu's 1,256.54 sq km jurisdiction in the Konkan region.

Dahanu sits at coordinates 19.9784°N, 72.7523°E, about 43.9 km north-west of the Palghar district centre. It is indexed inside the Palghar/Vasai-Virar Development Plan area, which is administered by the local planning authority for Palghar, Maharashtra.

The interactive viewer on this page opens directly at Dahanu so you can identify the DP zone for any plot in the surrounding area — residential, commercial, industrial, green or public-utility — and trace planned road alignments and reservations against the current satellite imagery. Use the search bar inside the full map to jump to a specific survey number or landmark within Dahanu.

Browsing Dahanu is free up to zoom level 14. The higher-detail DP tile layers (zoom 15 and beyond) unlock with a 7-day access pass for the Palghar region.