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Maps & plans

An empty plot marked out with wooden stakes, string and orange flags, a rolled-out house drawing weighed down by bricks in the foreground and finished houses behind in low evening sun. Maps & plans8 min read नक्शा पास कराए बिना नींव मत डालिए।

Building permission: getting the city's approval to build your house

Owning a plot in Indore does not let you build on it. How building permission works on ABPAS, what goes in the file, the fees, and the clock.

3 Oct 2026
An aerial view of a half-built colony beside a highway, finished grey houses on one side, walled empty plots on the other and a small stream winding past its edge. Maps & plans7 min read ऊपर से देखिए।

Your plot from above: what a satellite image tells you, and what it cannot

A satellite view shows roads, neighbours and where water collects. It cannot show your boundary, your plot number, the owner or the zone.

3 Oct 2026
A man holding a thick cardboard folder of papers under his arm stands with his back to the camera, looking across dry open ground toward high-voltage transmission towers. Maps & plans7 min read यहाँ नहीं।

Where you cannot build: four kinds of land you can own and never build on

Clean title, paid in full, and still no permission to build. The four lines on the plan that a title search never shows, and how to find them first.

3 Oct 2026
A man at a desk by an open window works on a laptop showing a coloured zoning map, with a printed land-use plan, a wooden scale and a pencil beside him. Maps & plans7 min read मास्टर प्लान पोर्टल कैसे इस्तेमाल करें।

How to use the Master Plan Portal, in five steps

Find your land on the development plan, read its zone off the colour, spot roads not yet built, find the building rules, and lay your colony on top.

8 Sep 2026
A laptop showing a map of coloured colony boundaries stands on a wooden desk beside an unfolded paper layout plan, a glass of chai, a set square and a pencil. Maps & plans8 min read ये रजिस्टर कैसे बना

How the Indori Zameen register was built

How the boundaries on the Indori Zameen map were placed and checked, who did the work, and why an unplaceable colony is left unmapped.

8 Sep 2026
A man's hands hold a triangular scale rule across a printed layout plan of numbered plots on a wooden desk. Maps & plans8 min read नक्शा पढ़ना सीखिए।

How to read a sanctioned layout plan

Plot numbers, road widths, open space, the reserved series and boundary lengths: how to read each one off a sanctioned layout plan before you pay.

8 Sep 2026
A wide entrance gateway of pale concrete columns spans a fresh tarmac road, with a planted median of palms and flowering shrubs and houses still under construction beyond it. Maps & plans7 min read वादा अलग चीज़ है। नक्शा अलग।

Promised vs sanctioned: the brochure and the layout plan

Why a brochure binds nobody and a sanctioned layout does, what reserved land looks like on the sheet, and the one question to ask when the amenity is not on it.

8 Sep 2026
A freshly laid grid of tarmac roads with white kerbs and boundary stones marking empty plots, three brick houses under construction behind them and farmland beyond, seen from above in late-afternoon light. Maps & plans7 min read ज़मीन से जुड़े हर सवाल का जवाब, एक ही जगह।

What Indori Zameen is, and how to use it

Indore's registered colonies on one map, each with its boundary, sanctioned layout, zoning and papers: what is there, what is not, how to read one fast.

8 Sep 2026

Read it. Then check it on the map.

Every colony's boundary, its approved layout, its zoning and its paperwork — on one screen. Signing in is free.

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