The eight questions every plot buyer in Indore asks, and where each answer sits

Before you buy a plot in Indore, eight questions need answers: whether the colony is registered, which khasra it stands on, what the land is zoned for, whether a proposed road crosses it, where the sanctioned layout is, how much you may build, which plot is yours on the ground, and who the promoter is on record. Each answer already exists somewhere.

Why eight, and why together

None of these questions is new. The trouble is that the answers live in different offices, and a family rarely gathers all eight before the token money changes hands. Two or three get checked; the rest get taken on trust, and those are usually the ones that hurt later. The order below is the order a careful buyer works through them: the colony, the land, the plan, the plot, then the person selling it.

1. Is the colony registered?

A colony that exists as a hoarding and a set of pegs is a very different thing from one whose promoter has put its land, its plan and its completion date on a public register. In Madhya Pradesh, projects above the statutory threshold register with MP RERA, and that registration is searchable by anyone.

On Indori Zameen, every registered colony and project is drawn on the map to the boundary its record describes, with its legal status printed beside it. You are reading what the register holds, not a claim on a brochure.

2. Which khasra numbers does it stand on?

Every piece of land in Madhya Pradesh is identified in the revenue record by a khasra number, inside a village, inside a tehsil. A colony sits on one or more of these numbers, and the sale deed you eventually sign will name them. If the khasra on the deed and the khasra the colony actually occupies do not match, you have bought paper, not ground.

The colony's record on the platform lists the khasra numbers its land stands on, next to the village and the tehsil, so the numbers on your draft deed can be compared with the record before anything is signed.

3. What is the land zoned for?

The city has already decided what most of its land is for. Indore Development Plan 2021 marks residential, commercial, industrial and green areas across the whole city. A plotted colony sold as residential on land the plan marks otherwise is a problem that surfaces at the building-permission stage, long after the money has gone.

The Master Plan Portal on Indori Zameen lays the development plan over the same map as the colonies, so the zone under any colony can be read without leaving the screen.

4. Does a proposed road cross it?

The same plan draws the roads the city intends to build. A proposed road across a plot is not a rumour; it is a line on a published drawing. It is also invisible on the ground, which is why so many buyers meet it only when a notice arrives.

Because the master plan and the colony boundary sit on one screen, a proposed road that crosses the colony, or runs along its edge, shows up before you sign.

5. Has the layout been sanctioned, and where is it?

A sanctioned layout is the drawing the planning authority approved: the plots, the roads at their sanctioned widths, the open spaces, the areas set aside for public use. Everything a developer promises about a colony is either on that drawing or it is not.

Where a sanctioned layout is on file, the platform georeferences it: the approved drawing is placed at its true position over satellite imagery. A road on the drawing sits on the road in the picture, and a garden on the drawing sits on the field where the garden should be.

6. How much can be built on it?

A plot is bought to build on, and what may be built is not decided by the seller. Setbacks from each boundary, the share of the plot that may be covered at ground level, the floor area ratio and the height limit are written in the state's building rules and vary by zone and by the road the plot faces.

The platform keeps the statutory rulebooks beside the maps, zone by zone, so the answer comes from the rule itself rather than from what anyone remembers of it.

7. Which plot is yours on the ground?

Standing in an open field with a plan in your hand, it is genuinely hard to know which rectangle you are being shown. Pegs move. A plot that is number 41 on the drawing can be pointed out as the better-looking corner two rows away, and nobody need be lying.

On a georeferenced layout the plot numbers sit where the plots actually are, over the satellite image. Open the colony on your phone at the site, find your number, and check that the ground under your feet is the ground under that number.

8. Who is the promoter on record?

The person at the site office is rarely the promoter. The company on the hoarding may not be the company on the registration. What matters is the name on the record, because that is the name that should appear on your agreement and your deed.

The colony's record prints the promoter as the register states it, with the documents behind it. Everything on file comes from verified government sources and verified RERA-registered brokers.

All eight, on one page

Each colony on Indori Zameen has its own page, and each of the eight answers sits on it. Some detail fields are shown to verified members; the public page still tells you what is on file and what is not. As of September 2026 the register holds 1,161 colonies and projects, 13,352 documents from verified sources and 39 city master plans across 13 states, so the colony you are being shown is very likely already there.

Where to check it yourself

Questions people ask

What questions should I ask before buying a plot in Indore?

Whether the colony is registered, which khasra numbers it stands on, what the land is zoned for, whether a proposed road crosses it, where the sanctioned layout is, how much you may build, which plot is yours on the ground, and who the promoter is on record.

How do I check if a colony in Indore is RERA registered?

Search the project on the MP RERA portal at rera.mp.gov.in. On Indori Zameen the registration status is printed on each colony's record.

How do I know if a master plan road passes through my plot?

Proposed roads are drawn on Indore Development Plan 2021. The Master Plan Portal on Indori Zameen lays that plan over the colony map so the two can be read together.

Where the facts come from. The facts and figures in this post come from verified government sources and verified RERA-registered brokers.

Indori Zameen is a private platform. It is not a government body and is not affiliated with one — always confirm a record with the concerned authority before you commit money.