Before you build a house in Telangana, you need permission from the right office, and the right office depends on where your plot is. This guide explains who approves what and the usual steps. Rules change, so always check the official portal before you apply.
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In December 2025, 27 municipalities around the Outer Ring Road, including Shamshabad, Adibatla, Tukkuguda, Tellapur and Ameenpur, were merged into GHMC. In February 2026 GHMC was split into three municipal corporations: GHMC, Cyberabad and Malkajgiri. Tellapur and Ameenpur, for example, are now under Cyberabad.
Towns such as Shadnagar and Sangareddy approve buildings inside their own limits.
The planning authority for the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, extended up to the Regional Ring Road in March 2025. It approves layouts, and buildings in some areas.
The Future City Development Authority, formed in 2025 for 56 villages in seven mandals, including Maheshwaram, Kandukur and Yacharam, and issuing layout and building permissions since December 2025. In June 2026 the government approved adding 37 more villages, 28 in Maheshwaram mandal and 9 in Kandukur. Check with FCDA or the HMDA website for your village.
The Directorate of Town and Country Planning, for most areas outside HMDA and the other development authorities.
Plots in villages may get their building permission from the gram panchayat, within the planning authority’s rules.
The state’s older online system, TG-bPASS, closed after 15 December 2025. According to the official BuildNow website, building and layout applications in GHMC, HMDA and DTCP limits are now processed through BuildNow.
The fees, timelines and the documents needed depend on your plot size, the building’s height and the office that handles your plot. Check the current rules on BuildNow, or with that office, before you apply.
Make sure the layout was approved (or regularised) and the land use allows a house. Get the sale deed, link documents and an encumbrance certificate in order.
Work out from the village and survey number whether GHMC, a municipality, HMDA, FCDA, DTCP or the gram panchayat handles your plot.
Plans prepared to the building rules for your plot: setbacks, height and coverage.
Apply online on BuildNow, or at the office that handles your plot, with the documents and drawings, and pay the fees.
Keep to the approved plan. Changes during construction can cause trouble later.
Where it’s required, apply for an occupancy certificate when the house is finished.
The application is signed by the owner, or by a representative holding the owner’s power of attorney. When you build with ZB EcoTech, we prepare the drawings and guide you through each step.
For questions about your land’s title, please have your own lawyer check the documents.
No. TG-bPASS closed after 15 December 2025. Applications in GHMC, HMDA and DTCP limits now go through BuildNow, according to its official website.
Since February 2026, one of the three corporations formed from GHMC: GHMC, Cyberabad or Malkajgiri. Check the official website for your ward.
Often the gram panchayat, within the rules of the planning authority for that area (HMDA, FCDA or DTCP). The village and survey number decide it.
A representative holding your power of attorney can sign for you. Get the power of attorney drafted or checked by your own lawyer.House construction for NRIs →
Tell us where your plot is. We’ll help you work out which office approves it, and talk through your house.
