Maharashtra Building Plan on Carpet Area Only
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is making it compulsory for builders to submit the building plan based on carpet area only.The concerned departments, Revenue and Urban Development, have been given instructions in this regards. Making it tough for builders to flout norms while selling flats, Maharashtra Government would make compulsory submission of building plan to the BMC on carpet area (wall-to-wall area of the flat) only and also the registration would be done based on the carpet area.
According to the Maharashtra Ownership Flats (regulation of the promotion of construction, sale, management and transfer) Act (MOFA) 1963, it is compulsory for the builders to sell the flats on carpet area. Selling flats on the carpet area only brings down prices and makes houses affordable for common man.
Source: Economic Times
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Building Plan on basis of Carpet Area only, Maharashtra Building Plan, Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act, MOFA, Mumbai
[...] The MCHI on Tuesday sought the chief minister’s intervention in removing the “anomaly” in Development Control (DC) regulations to ensure that apartments are sold on the basis of carpet area. The body had requested the urban development (UD) department to sanction building permission plans on carpet-area basis. This approval shall enable MCHI to direct all the developers under its umbrella to sell apartments on carpet-area basis. [...]