State Act

The Himachal Pradesh Town and Country Planning Act, 1977

1[30-A. Exemption from development permission in rural areas falling within Planning or Special Areas.-(1) Any person who owns land in rural areas, falling within Planning or Special Areas wherein neither Interim Development Plan nor Development Plan has been notified, shall be exempted from permission under this Act for the following development activities upto the limits as may be prescribed:— (i) Residential activities such as farm-houses and residential houses upto three storeys, cattle shed, toilet, septic tank, kitchen, store, parking shed or garage and rain shelter; (ii) Commercial activities such as basic commercial activities like shops of general merchandise, cobbler, barber, tailoring, fruit, vegetable, tea or sweet, eating places and dhabas, chemist and farm produce sale depot; (iii) Service Industries such as cottage or house-hold, service industries like carpentry, knitting, weaving, blacksmith, goldsmith, atta-chakki with capacity upto five horse-power, water mill, agriculture equipments or machinery repair, electrical, electronic and house-hold appliances; (iv) Public amenities such as public amenities like panchayat offices, schools, mahilamandals, yuvakmandals, community halls, post offices, dispensaries and clinics (including health, veterinary and Indian System of Medicines) information technology kiosks, patwarkhanas, guard huts, anganwaries, electricity and telephone installations and connections, roads and paths, ropeways, water tanks, rain harvesting tanks, overhead or underground water tanks, pump houses, check dams, temples, churches, mosques, graveyards, cemeteries, cremation grounds and other religious buildings, bathing ghats, cremation shelters, rest sheds, baths, drainage, toilets, latrines, urinals, sewerage installations, wells, tube wells, baulies, garbage disposal bins, depots and other installations; (v) Agriculture and horticulture related activities including rain harvesting structures, milk chilling plant, farm level godowns, seeds and fertilizer stores, farm clinics, pre-cooling units, primary processing units, green houses and poly houses; and (vi) Heritage related activities such as lakes, reservoirs, dams, baulies, wild life sanctuaries, cemeteries, graveyards, railway lines. (2) Any person who owns land in areas falling outside urbanisable areas, as shown in the Interim Development Plans or Development Plans of Planning or Special Areas, shall be exempted from permission under this Act for the development activities specified under sub-section (1) upto the limits as may be prescribed.]