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

M.P.Bhumi Vikas Niyam, 1984(ii)Occupant Load:- The population in rooms, areas of floors shall becalculated based on the occupant load given in table 9 :–Sr.No.(1)Group of Occupancy(2)TABLE 9(Rule 82)OCCUPANT LOADOccupant load Gross Area 1 insquare meters per person(3)1. Residential 12.52. Educational 43. Institutional 15+4. Assembly -(a) With fixed or loose seals anddance floor(b) Without seating facilities0.6 ++1.5 #including dining rooms.5. Mercantile-(a) street floor and sales basement(b) upper sale floors366. Business and Industrial 107. Storage 308. Hazardous 10+ Occupant load in dormitory portions of homes for the aged. Orphanages.insance asylums and the like, where sleeping accommodation is provided,shall be calculated at not less than 7.5 square meters gross area person.++ The gross area shall include, in addition to the main assembly room or space,any occupied connecting room or space in the same, storey or in the storeysabove or below, where entrance is common to such rooms and space andthey are available for use by the occupants of the assembly place. Nodeductions shall be made in the gross area for corridors, closets or other subdivisionand area shall include all space serving the particular assemblyoccupancy.(iii)Capacity of Exits. - The capacity of exits (doors and stairways) indicatingthe number of persons that could be safely evacuated through a unit exitwidth of 50 centimeters shall be as given in Table 10 :-1 The Gross Area shall mean plinth area or covered area78