House map approval in Chhattisgarh

It depends on where the plot is. In Raipur, Bilaspur, Durg, Bhilai, Risali, Korba, Rajnandgaon, Raigarh, Jagdalpur, Ambikapur or Chirimiri, your registered architect or engineer files online on the Building Permission Management System (bpms.sudacg.in); Bhilai-Charoda, Birgaon and Dhamtari use NiwasPass (niwaspass.com). For land in a planning area outside town limits, a licensed architect files on Town and Country Planning's ALBPMS (albpms-dtcp.cgstate.gov.in), and in Nava Raipur on the authority's own module. The corporations' list of papers includes the B-1 and khasra map, rin pustika, sale deed, diversion certificate, approved layout or land-use certificate, affidavit, indemnity bond, supervision certificate, cost estimate, site photos and a tax receipt.

Yes, for a residential plot of up to 500 sq m (about 5,380 sq ft) in one of the 14 municipal corporations. The state launched this direct building permission in January 2022 and added Bhilai-Charoda, Birgaon and Dhamtari in April 2023. You upload your documents and an affidavit and pay the ₹1 application fee, and the system issues the permission without an officer's scrutiny; BPMS showed 48,365 direct permissions issued when we checked on 3 November 2026. We found it only in the municipal corporations, not in councils, nagar panchayats or Town and Country Planning areas.

Up to 30 days. Since October 2017, rule 28 of the Bhumi Vikas Niyam says a plan is deemed sanctioned if the authority does not refuse it in writing within 30 days, and the corporations' portal lists the same 30 days under the state's public service guarantee law. ALBPMS splits its 30 days into 5 for documents, 15 for the site visit and reports and 10 for the decision, not counting time you take to fix the drawing or pay. Since December 2024 the rules set the application fee at ₹1 per sq m of proposed built-up area; the direct route charges a flat ₹1. A Town and Country Planning permission lasts three years and can be revalidated twice for a year each, and it does not lapse once work has started.

You sign as owner, with a professional licensed by the authority. Since 2011 a licensed architect, structural engineer or engineer may submit plans for any building, whatever its size or height, and a licensed supervisor for houses of up to 200 sq m and two storeys. An architect may also sign the structural design of a house on a plot up to 500 sq m with up to three storeys or 11 m, and an engineer of buildings up to 500 sq m and four storeys (15 m). Portals hold professionals to account: in August 2026 Raipur Municipal Corporation barred five registered engineers from BPMS for a year over incomplete papers and repeated errors.

Yes, if the village lies inside a planning area. Beyond a town's municipal limits but within its planning area, the Bhumi Vikas Niyam make the Director of Town and Country Planning the authority for building permission, and plans go on ALBPMS. The department lists more than 180 planning areas formed under section 13(1) of the 1973 Act. For a village outside every planning area we found no state rule naming who passes a house map, so ask the gram panchayat and the district Town and Country Planning office before you build.

Nava Raipur Atal Nagar has its own authority, the Nava Raipur Atal Nagar Vikas Pradhikaran (NRANVP), which grants building permission under its own development control rules, last modified in January 2023, and the Nava Raipur Atal Nagar Development Plan 2031, in force since 14 June 2019. You apply through a registered architect on its online module, and the architect must send the hard copies within three days. Its fees were last revised by a gazette notification of 24 December 2024.

Inside a planning area, the 1973 Act punishes building without permission with simple imprisonment of up to six months, a fine of up to ₹2,000, or both, and up to ₹250 a day while it continues. Within five years the Director of Town and Country Planning can order the land restored within one to three months, and if you do not comply, have the work removed and recover the cost as land revenue. Municipal corporations serve notices under sections 293, 302 and 307 of the 1956 Act to remove unauthorised work, and someone affected can apply under section 307(5), as the High Court noted on 12 October 2026. The regularisation law was amended again in January 2025, but Raipur stopped taking applications in August 2023, so ask your body before relying on it.