Which office approves your building plan depends on exactly where your plot is: inside a municipality or one of the municipal corporations (GHMC, Cyberabad or Malkajgiri), in a gram panchayat, or in an area where HMDA, DTCP or the new Future City Development Authority (FCDA) is the planning authority. Several of these boundaries changed in 2025 and 2026, so go by your plot’s village and survey number, not by the mandal name.
Plots inside Shadnagar town come under the Shadnagar municipality. Plots in villages around it may come under a gram panchayat. In March 2025, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region was extended up to the Regional Ring Road, so many villages on this side of the city now fall within HMDA’s planning area.
Before you buy or build, check that your layout was approved, by HMDA or DTCP, or regularised. A plot in an unapproved layout can hold up your building permission.
