House map approval in Haryana

It depends on who developed your plot. In an HSVP sector you apply on HSVP's OBPAS portal, the only route since 1 October 2025; in a DTCP-licensed colony a registered architect files on HOBPAS; inside municipal limits the municipality approves, through the portals the Urban Local Bodies department lists (OBPAS for planned schemes, Saral for the rest, and HOBPAS). The department's OBPAS address did not open when we checked on 25 and 26 October 2026, so ask the municipal office if a portal is down.

Yes, for a house up to 16.5 m high. The Haryana Building Code treats residential plots of every size up to that height as low-risk, so the plan goes in under self-certification, certified by your architect, and construction may start once it is submitted. The authority can still check the plan and the site at any stage: violations must be fixed at your cost, and an architect who certifies wrongly can be reported to the Council of Architecture and blacklisted.

Ground plus three floors, within 16.5 m. The code also allows stilt plus four floors within that height, but new S+4 approvals have been on hold across Haryana since 21 July 2026, after the High Court stayed the S+4 policy on 2 April 2026. Under the code as amended on 13 August 2026, a plot may have one home per floor and at most four in all.

A Council of Architecture-registered architect can prepare and sign plans for any building. A supervisor can prepare, sign and submit plans for buildings up to 200 sq m (8 marla) and 15 m high, and a civil engineer can do the structural drawings for plots up to 1,000 sq m and 15 m. You, the architect and the engineer sign the application digitally.

It depends on where the house stands. The Controlled Areas Act, which otherwise needs DTCP's permission, does not apply to a village's abadi deh, and the Panchayati Raj Act lets the gram panchayat regulate new buildings in the abadi by general order. Outside the abadi in a controlled area, you need DTCP's permission unless the building is for farming. If the village's lal dora now lies inside municipal limits, the municipality passes the map under the Building Code's core-area rules.

The Building Code gives the authority 20 days: a complete application that follows the code, with all fees paid, is deemed sanctioned if no order is passed in that time. The scrutiny fee is ₹10 per sq m of covered area, and municipalities add development charges where no change of land use is involved. A sanction is valid for two years for buildings under 15 m and five years at 15 m or more; revalidation costs ₹10 per sq m.

The authority can order you to alter or demolish the building and, if you do not, demolish it at your cost. In a municipal council or committee area, ignoring a demolition order can bring up to six months in jail or a fine of ₹5,000 to ₹10,000, plus ₹100 a day. In a controlled area, building without DTCP's permission can bring up to three years in jail and a fine of ₹10,000 to ₹50,000, plus up to ₹1,000 a day.