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Section 24: Construction of residential building

The West Bengal Panchayat (Gram Panchayat Administration) Rules, 2004State Rules of West Bengal · 1973

(1) Subject to such order as may be issued by the State Government in this behalf, any structure or a building within thejurisdiction of a Gram Panchayat shall be erected or constructed with a set-back of at least nine-tenth metre from each side of the plot. In doing so, there shall be a minimum perpendicular distance of one and eight-tenth metres from the side of any proposed newbuilding to the side of an existing building.

(2) Subject to the maximum height of fifteen metres, the height of a new or existing structure shall be one and half times the width of the approach road added with the width of the front set-back of that building. But no set-back in the building shall be allowed. '

(3) The area of a habitable room shall be not less than six square metres with a minimum width of two and one-fifth metres.

(4) The area of a kitchen shall be not less than three square metres with a minimum width of one and half metres.

(5) The urea of an independent water-closet or any independent bathroom shall be not less than eight-tenth square metre with a minimum width of seventeen-twentieth metre; if a water-closet is combined with bathroom, its floor area shall not be Jess than one and a half square metres with a minimum width of nine-tenth metre.

(6) The height of all habitable and multipurposerooms shall not be less than two and six-tenth metres from the surface of the floor to the lowest point of the ceiling; the height of the kitchen, water-closet, bathroom, corridor or passage shall not be less than two and one-tenth metres from the surface of the floor to the lowest point of the ceiling.

Explanation.--In this rule, "habitable room" means a room meant for human habitation other than a kitchen, bath, water-closet or storeroom.

Where this provision sits

ActThe West Bengal Panchayat (Gram Panchayat Administration) Rules, 2004
Section24
Marginal noteConstruction of residential building
JurisdictionState of West Bengal
StatusIn force as published by the source

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