Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has notified the Odisha Development Authorities (Planning and Building Standards) Second Amendment Rules, 2025, introducing significant changes to the approval and regularisation of building plans and layouts statewide.
Issued by the Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Department, the amendment seeks to curb unauthorised developments while promoting planned industrial and layout projects.
The revised rules follow the draft version published in March 2025, which invited public feedback over 15 days. After careful consideration of the suggestions, the government has finalised the amendments.
Key highlights include the disqualification of unauthorised layouts where open spaces in approved plans have been subdivided and sold from regularisation eligibility. Furthermore, any case where the government or planning authority believes regularisation could compromise public interest or safety will be rejected.
The notification clarifies that cases approved under Rule 90A prior to this amendment will remain unaffected, and no refunds of previously collected compounding fees will be granted.
For sub-plots up to 500 square meters, applicants can now submit an affidavit confirming that the subdivision complies with Rule 87, streamlining approvals for smaller plots.
The amendment also reaffirms the continued applicability of the regularisation scheme announced on May 30, 2017, for relevant cases.
Two new rules, 90B and 90C, have been introduced.
Rule 90B empowers the Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) to exempt industrial buildings from compounding fees in areas where it functions as the Special Planning Authority, provided construction complies with existing norms.
Rule 90C exempts projects involving subdivision layout plans or site layout approvals from paying compounding fees for land regularisation.
