Maps & plans
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 2026Your 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 2026Where 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 2026How 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 2026How 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 2026How 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 2026Promised 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 2026What 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 2026Read 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.