Haryana govt decides to increae FAR for residential plots

Haryana government today decided to increase the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) for residential plots, a move is aimed to cope with increased demand for housing and conserve land for agriculture.
The government has decided to allow purchasable FAR over and above the existing permissible limits.
FAR is the ratio of a building's total floor area (gross floor area) to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built, an official release said here today.
It said that purchasable FAR would be applicable only for licensed colonies and HUDA sectors.
Under the new rules, FAR for 3, 4, 6 and 10 marla houses will be 2 while for 14 marla, 1 kanal and 2-kanal houses, it would be 1.8.

At present, FAR in these houses varies from 1 to 1.65.

The rate for the increased FAR varies from Rs 45 to Rs 750 per sq ft depending upon the potential of zones.
The ground coverage for 3 and 4 marla houses has been kept at 66 per cent while it has been increased to 66 from 60 per cent in case of 6 and 10 marla properties.
For 14 marla houses, it has been raised from 52.8 to 60 per cent, for a kanal house, from 50.71 to 60 per cent and for 2 kanals from 45.53 to 60 per cent, official said.

The revenue generated through purchasable FAR will go to the concerned municipal authority for licensed colonies and projects in municipal areas, release said.
It will go to Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) wherever it has to strengthen services due to increased density and shall be used for consequent development works that may be necessitated.
The benefit of additional FAR shall be allowed after suitable amendments are made in the relevant Act or rules by the concerned authority, it further said.
"The ball will soon be set rolling for making necessary amendments in the relevant statutory provisions," the release said.
It is pertinent to mention here that FAR and ground coverage norms for the residential plots followed by the Department of Town and Country Planning were fixed way back in 1977.

Need has been felt for revising them to cope with the ever-increasing demand for houses, especially in the urban areas, it said.
Various representations, received from different organizations seeking revision of FAR or ground coverage norms, were considered genuine for two reasons: scarce land resource and the need to intensively utilize the urban land so that land could be preserved for agriculture, it said.