Sector 166, Noida The Sector Designed to Carry People While Others Carry Water and Industry By Arindam Bose ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ Sector 166 does not look important when you drive past it. That is exactly why it is. Where Sector 164 quietly absorbs water and Sector 165 wrestles with land acquisition for industry, Sector 166 sits between them, almost invisible — flat, open, rural, unfinished. But this emptiness is not accidental. It is structural. Sector 166 is where people are supposed to live, work, shop, and move once the rest of southern Noida begins to function. It is the human hinge of this entire expansion corridor. Where Sector 166 Actually Sits Sector 166 lies along the Noida–Greater Noida Expressway spine, inside Gautam Buddha Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh. It belongs to the same southern Noida expansion block that includes Sectors 161 through 165 — an area that the Noida Authority earmarked years ago to absorb the city’s n...