1 RULES THE MADHYA PRADESH BHUMI VIKAS RULES, 1984 ...

M.P.Bhumi Vikas Niyam, 1984constituted under the Madhya Pradesh Town Improvement Trust Act, 1960(No. 14 of 1961).(23) “Drain” means a line of pipes including all fittings and equipments, such asmanholes, inspection chambers, traps, gullies and floor traps, used for thedrainage of a building or a number of buildings or yards, appurtenent, tobuilding, within the same Curtilage and shall include open channels used forcarrying surface water;(24) Drainage” means the removal of any liquid by a system constructed for thispurpose;(25) “Dwelling Unit / Tenement” means an independent dwelling unit with separatefacilities for living, cooking and sanitary requirement.(26) “Exit” means a passage, channel or means of egress from any building storiesor floors area to a street or other open space of safety;(27) “Fire Separation” means the distance in meters measured from any otherbuilding on the site or from other site, or from the opposite side of a street orother public space to the building;1 (27-a) “Forest House” means a house in such areas and built subject to suchconditions as specified in sub-rule (13) of rule 17;(28) “Floor” means the lower surface in a storey on which one normally walks in abuilding. The general term, “floor” unless otherwise specially mentioned shallnot refer to a “Mezzanine Floor”;Note – The sequential number of floor shall be determined by its relation to thedetermining entrance level. For floors at or wholly above ground level withlowest floor in the building with direct entrance from the road or street shall betermed as floor 1. The other floors above floor 1 shall be numbered insequence as floor 2, floor 3 and so on, with number increasing upwards.2 (28-a) “High rise building” means a building –(i) which consists of more than six stories; or(ii) which has a height of more than 18 meters”; (exclusive of stilt parking of2.4 m. height)3 (29) "Floor Area Ratio" means the ratio of permissible total of built up area in abuilding on all floors to the total plot area of the land in question . (The ratiostipulates the maximum of built quantity and no variations or exceptions shall1 Notification No. 23-107-95-32-1, dt 31-8-98,., Gazette dated 1-9-98 Inserted.2 Notification No.F-23(107)-95-XXXII, Dt. 7-4-2000, Gazate Dt.28-4-2000 Substituted.3 Notification No.F-23-107-95-32-1, Dt. 7-4-2000, Gazate Dt.28-4-2000 Substituted.5