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Smart & Green
Self-sustaining cities powered by an end-to-end IoT-as-a-Service ecosystem — connecting energy, mobility, education, healthcare and logistics on a single intelligent fabric.
Est. 2000 · Vancouver · New York · New Delhi
Building the New India,
one smart city at a time.
Royal Indian Raj International Corporation is a pioneer of privatized, sustainable, technology-led urban townships across India — a multi-billion-dollar program building the future of how Indians live, work and play.
A technological, economic and financial bridge between East and West — accelerating the infrastructure value of the country.
8
Tier 1 cities
500M
Buildable sq.ft.
400K
Planned homes
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Our vision
Cities designed for the next century.
India faces the largest urban migration in modern history — the World Bank projects 416 million people will move into Indian cities by 2050. We are building the privatized, sustainable infrastructure to receive them.
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Live · Work · Play
Master-planned urban hubs where residential, commercial, civic and recreational uses sit within a ten-minute walk — modelled on the world's best new-city precedents.
III.
Foreign Direct Investment
One of the earliest approved FDIs into Indian real estate, RIRIC operates as the conduit between global capital, advanced technology and India's priority infrastructure categories.
The intelligent city
A city that thinks, senses and responds.
Every Royal Garden City is engineered as a single intelligent fabric — energy, mobility, water, security, healthcare and commerce woven onto one IoT-as-a-Service spine. The city becomes the platform; data becomes the public utility of the 21st century.
1999
Pioneered
IoT
As-a-Service
Net Zero
Roadmap
The portfolio
A chain of Royal Garden Cities.
Phase 1 of our Future City program spans eight cities — beginning in Bangalore — across Tier 1 and Tier 2 metros, with a long-range program of 120–200 million buildable square feet.
Smart City · 2004Bangaluru, India
1. Royal Garden City — Bangaluru
The flagship — a 3,000-acre, fully web-enabled smart city master-planned with Singapore's CPG Corporation, designed to be Asia's largest new-city development to date.
Press Release · Singapore · Dec. 10, 2009
“CPG Corporation to Master Plan India's Largest Real Estate Development — Royal Garden City”
3,000
Acres
146M
Built-up sq.ft.
500K
Residents
Smart City · 2004Navi Mumbai, India
2. Royal Garden Marina City — Navi Mumbai
A 5,000-acre live-work community on the outskirts of India's financial capital, conceived in partnership with The Greenwich Group International, New York. Customized as HYDC Marina City — a biophilic, vertical-garden waterfront skyline framing the harbour.
5,000
Acres
217M
Built-up sq.ft.
$16B
Planned scale
International Township · 2006Doddaballapur · North Bangaluru
3. Royal Garden Villas & Resorts — The Italian Village
A 1,136-acre couture-designed gated community styled on Tuscany's hill towns — a Nicklaus-designed PGA Tour golf course, polo club, vineyards, 7-star Il Castello hotel, international academy, and a working grappa & limoncello distillery. Design and masterplanning by MANICA Architecture. A projected USD $30B development at full completion.
Royal Indian Raj × MANICA Architecture · Feb. 2008
“An International Couture Community with an Authentic Italian Design — La Dolce Vita. Veramente.”
1,136
Acres
$30B
Projected scale
PGA
Nicklaus golf
Golf Villages · 2007Pan India
5. Golf India
The first vertically integrated golf initiative in the sub-continent — a chain of prestigious planned communities anchored by Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf courses and academies.
Read the projectMulti
City chain
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Nicklaus design
PGA
Academies
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In the pressRecognised by the world's leading institutions.
2022
Phase 1 Future City — 8 cities
Royal Indian Raj International
2021
$1B partnership with Greenwich Group
The Economic Times
2017
Lord Michael Sandberg joins RIRIC Advisory Board
RIRIC Press Release
2013
$547M equity line of credit secured from GEM Global Yield Fund
GEM · Business Wire
2007
Top 100 Most Influential People
Business & Economy Magazine
2006
Leading FDI real-estate developer in India
ASSOCHAM
2004
Asia's largest real-estate development
Forbes · Business Wire
2004
Ranked #1 FDI into India
OCO Global Investment Monitor
As featured in
- PR Newswire
- Business Line
- The Globe and Mail
- GlobeSt
- Reuters
- The Times of India
- Urban Land Institute
- U.S. International Trade Commission
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Frequently askedAnswers about Royal Indian Raj.
RIRIC is a multinational, privately owned real estate investment and development group headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with executive offices in New York and New Delhi. It is one of India's largest foreign direct investors in real estate and the pioneer of the Royal Garden City chain of smart, green, sustainable private cities across India.
RIRIC was founded and is chaired by Manoj C. Benjamin, an Indo-Canadian entrepreneur recognised by Business & Economy Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People of 2007 for his visionary leadership in the Indian real estate sector.
Royal Garden City is RIRIC's flagship — a chain of privatized, self-sustaining smart cities planned across Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune and Chennai. The Bangalore project alone spans 3,000 acres with an estimated 146 million sq.ft. of built-up space.
RIRIC is headquartered at MNP Tower, 1021 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1E3, with executive offices in New York and New Delhi.
RIRIC develops master-planned smart cities in eight Tier-1 Indian cities: Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune and Chennai, with plans to expand to additional Tier-2 cities.
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