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An unfinished concrete apartment tower with open upper floors and an idle tower crane stands behind a corrugated metal fence at the end of a quiet residential lane in morning haze. Papers & law7 min read शिकायत का भी तरीका होता है।

How to file a RERA complaint in Madhya Pradesh

Form M or Form N, ₹1,000, and a folder in date order. How a complaint to MP RERA works, what to ask for, and what it cannot do for you.

3 Oct 2026
A new cream two-storey house in a residential lane, a solar panel array raised on a steel frame over its roof and a black water tank set to one side. Money7 min read छत पर बिजली

Rooftop solar for the house you are about to build

PM Surya Ghar pays up to ₹78,000 for a rooftop system. Your roof decides how well it works, so plan the panels before the slab is cast.

3 Oct 2026
A man in a dark turban works a calculator over a notebook at a low table while his wife rests her chin on his shoulder, a laptop open in front of them. Money8 min read होम लोन से टैक्स बचेगा? पहले रीजीम देखिए।

Home loan tax benefits: interest, principal and the regime you choose

The ₹2 lakh interest and ₹1.5 lakh principal deductions live only in the old regime. How each works, for joint owners and while a house is built.

3 Oct 2026
A smiling couple stand in the doorway of a small yellow house hung with a marigold garland, the woman holding up a set of keys, a scooter parked beside the steps. Money8 min read ब्याज में मदद — पर शर्तें पहले पढ़िए।

PMAY-U 2.0: the home-loan interest subsidy, and who qualifies

Up to ₹1.80 lakh off a home loan under PMAY-U 2.0: the income bands, the caps, the pucca-house rule, and how the subsidy is actually paid.

3 Oct 2026
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
A vacant plot of cracked dark soil marked by white corner pillars and a chalk line beside a new tar road, with half-built brick houses behind it. Papers & law8 min read ज़मीन का भी आधार

Bhu-Aadhaar (ULPIN): the 14-character ID every land parcel is getting

Bhu-Aadhaar, or ULPIN, tells you which parcel you are looking at. It does not tell you who owns it, or whether the land is clean. Here is the difference.

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 smiling couple on a beige sofa work out a payment together, the man pointing at a laptop on the coffee table and the woman holding a phone. Money7 min read टीडीएस काटना ख़रीदार का काम है।

TDS on property: the one per cent the buyer must deduct

Buying property for ₹50 lakh or more? One per cent of the price is the seller's tax, and deducting it is your job. What to file, by when, and the NRI exception.

3 Oct 2026
A couple sit at a wooden dining table by a window, the man writing in a spiral notebook while the woman works a calculator, two cups of tea beside them. Money7 min read किराया या ख़रीद?

Rent or buy: the costs of owning that never make the sum

Rent against EMI is the wrong sum. The five costs of owning it leaves out, and how to compare the two honestly over the years you will actually stay.

3 Oct 2026
Weathered hands hold a smartphone with a dark screen at the edge of a ripening wheat field, a narrow dirt path running away into the crop. Papers & law7 min read अपना खसरा ख़ुद निकालिए।

Pull your own land record: khasra and B1 in three steps

Your khasra and B-1 are public and searchable on the state's own portal, no sign-in needed to view. The right address, the search, and how to read it.

3 Oct 2026
An elderly man's hands pass a bundle of documents tied with string and a ring of keys across a wooden table to a young woman's hands. Papers & law8 min read एक दिन — और ज़िंदगी भर का काग़ज़।

Registry day: what happens, and mutation afterwards

Stamp duty, the four-month clock, Aadhaar at the counter, e-registration from home, and why a registered deed still leaves mutation to be done.

8 Sep 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 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 blank white hoarding on two rusted steel posts stands over a dry, walled plot beside a highway on the edge of a city Indore7 min read ब्रोशर नहीं, शहर पढ़िए।

Read the city, not the brochure: judging a location yourself

Zone, roads, distance, neighbours, register: five reads that tell you what a location in Indore already is, without a single phone call.

8 Sep 2026
A young couple holding hands on bare ground, looking out over rows of marked plots and a concrete road at sunrise Buying guides9 min read शुरू से क़ब्ज़े तक

From first search to possession: the nine stages and how long each takes

The nine stages of buying a plot in Indore, in the order they belong, and why the token should come fifth, after the record and the ground.

8 Sep 2026
An aerial view at dusk of a plotted colony on the edge of a city, its grid of empty plots and a scatter of grey concrete houses laid out between farm fields, with a lit highway and the city's lights beyond. Buying guides8 min read एक रात का होटल — सैकड़ों विकल्प। ज़िंदगी भर की ज़मीन — पाँच।

You get more choice booking a hotel than buying land

Hundreds of hotels for one night, fifty restaurants for dinner, five or ten colonies for the plot you keep for life. How to see the whole market first.

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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