House design & naksha for Bhiwani plots

Map approval

the Municipal Council Bhiwani or HSVP, depending on where the plot is — Haryana's Online Building Plan Approval System (OBPAS): HSVP's portal for its sectors, or the Urban Local Bodies' unified portal that has run since 8 May 2026. Under the Haryana Building Code 2017, house plots up to 16.5 m high are low-risk: the owner applies for self-certification with a site plan, DWG drawings, structural drawings and a safety certificate, and may start building on submission.

Plot sizes

HSVP lists its plots by marla and kanal, sized in metres: in Bhiwani a 6-marla plot is 18 × 7.5 m (135 sq m, about 1,450 sq ft). HSVP's e-auction of 20 March 2026 offered 10-marla plots of 22 × 9.5 m (209 sq m, about 2,250 sq ft) and 14-marla plots of 23 × 13 m (299 sq m, about 3,220 sq ft) in Sector 13, and 4-marla to 1-kanal plots (90.75–504 sq m, about 980–5,430 sq ft) in Sector 23 Part II.

Climate

Composite. Bhiwani falls in the Composite zone of BEE's climate map. CGWB puts the district's normal rainfall at 420 mm a year, about 85% of it in the monsoon: shade and insulate the roof (BEE's limit is a U-value of 1.2 W/m²K), keep west glass small, and give rooms openable windows of at least 12.5% of the floor area.

Earthquake zone

Seismic Zone IV. Bhiwani is not in IS 1893's table of towns. BMTPC's Vulnerability Atlas of India (2019) puts Bhiwani district partly in Zones II, III and IV (3.4% of its area in Zone IV); we design to Zone IV, the strictest of the three. BIS withdrew its 2025 seismic map in March 2026, so the IS 1893:2016 zones still apply.

Ground and water

CGWB's district booklet (2012) describes a flat plain broken by sand dunes and rocky ridges, older alluvium of sand, silt, clay and kankar, and a shallow water table, 0.84–10 m down, in the Bhiwani block; the groundwater is alkaline and many wells draw saline water. BMTPC's Vulnerability Atlas marks only 0.1% of Bhiwani district as flood-prone.

Where people build

HSVP Sector 13, HSVP Sector 23, Shiv Nagar, MC Colony.

Good to know

Heavy rain in August 2026 left Shiv Nagar, MC Colony and the city side of Dadri Gate and Hanuman Gate waterlogged; the town drains rainwater through eight disposal points. On 21 July 2026 Haryana stopped new approvals for stilt-plus-four-floor houses, citing rules for online approval and self-certification that were still being finalised.

Sources: Haryana Building Code 2017 · HSVP OBPAS · ULB Haryana OBPAS · The Tribune: S+4 halt · HSVP: Hisar zone plot e-auction, 20 Mar 2026 · BMTPC: Vulnerability Atlas, Bhiwani district · CGWB: Bhiwani district groundwater · The Tribune: Bhiwani waterlogging, Aug 2026 · BEE: Eco-Niwas Samhita 2024, climate map