The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has set up four facilitation cells for sub-plot regularisation and proposed layout plan approval in the offices of the District Sub-Registrar in Bhubaneswar, Khandagiri, Balianta and Jatni.

The cell would assist the general public either seeking to sub-divide their land or to regularise the unauthorisedly sub-divided land for the purpose of converting into homestead (Gharabari Kisam) purpose.

The cell would also help in preparation of plan and making application for approval of layout plan by the urban local bodies or the BDA.

The BDA said that two employees each have been deployed to the cells.

The State Government in 2015 had imposed restrictions on grant of building permissions on plots which have been sub-divided into sub-plot unauthorisedly without obtaining approval of the concerned development authorities or ULBs under provisions of the ODA Act 1982. 

In 2017 and 2022, the government brought two different schemes of regularisation of such unauthorised layout by depositing required compounding fee as applicable. The facilitation cell will help the applicants seeking to regularise their un-authorised sub-plots under these Schemes.

Applications for building plan approval over the regularised sub-plot would be considered in accordance with the land-use specified in the development plan and the planning and building standards rules or regulations, in operation and such other provisions are also applicable at the time of such application.