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The approval chain

The Karnataka approvals stack for an apartment, in order

A brochure says approved. A buyer needs to know approved by whom, under which section, and evidenced by which piece of paper. This is the whole chain from agricultural land to a registered flat — twelve stages, each with its authority, its statute and the one document that proves the stage happened.

Subject

Statutory approval chain

Jurisdiction

Karnataka

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The framing

There is no such thing as an approved project

There are twelve stages below and at least nine different authorities. Each grants a different thing, on a different date, under a different section. So approved is not a property a project has — it is a set of documents a project either holds or does not.

Ask a developer whether a project is approved and you will get a yes, and the yes will be true of something. Ask instead for the conversion order, the commencement certificate, the sanctioned building plan, the RERA registration certificate and — once the building is finished — the occupancy certificate, and you have asked five questions each of which has a document-shaped answer.

The order below is the order these things are granted in, and the order matters because each stage presupposes the one before it. A commencement certificate is granted for land that may lawfully be used that way, which is what conversion settles. A building plan is sanctioned within a development that has permission. An occupancy certificate is granted against a sanctioned plan. A stack that stops halfway is not a partial answer; it is a precise one, telling you exactly which stage a project has reached.

One stage in the list changes the reader’s position entirely. Section 4(2)(c) of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 makes a promoter lodge authenticated copies of the approvals and the commencement certificate with the regulator as part of registering the project — and the regulator’s register is public. Everything before that stage is a document you must ask a promoter for. From that stage onwards, a stranger can check the promoter without the promoter’s cooperation.

The five to ask for by name

  1. The conversion order
  2. The commencement certificate
  3. The sanctioned building plan
  4. The RERA registration certificate
  5. The occupancy certificate, once the building is finished

Each of these either exists or does not, and each names the authority that issued it on its own face. That is why they are better questions than any question containing the word approved. Page last checked .

12 stages

The chain, in the order it is granted

Each stage names the class of authority that grants it, the one document to ask for, the provision it comes from, and — in the two columns that matter most — what holding that document settles and what it leaves open.

  1. The seller's own title, and the record of rights behind it

    Before any authority is involved at all, the land has an owner and a history, and both live in documents nobody had to apply for.

    Granted by
    No approving authority. The Sub-Registrar's register holds the instruments; the Revenue Department holds the record of rights.
    Ask for
    The chain of registered parent deeds, with the Record of Rights, Tenancy and Crops and the mutation entries for the agricultural period
    Under
    Registration Act, 1908 · Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964, Chapter XI

    This stage is first because every stage after it inherits its defects. A perfect set of approvals granted over defective title produces a building nobody can safely buy a share of, and no authority in the chain below checks title for you.

    It is also the stage where the RTC belongs. An RTC is strong evidence about an agricultural holding and weak evidence about anything else, which is why it sits here and not later.

    What it proves

    Who the revenue record showed as the holder, and what registered instruments have touched the land.

    What it does not prove

    That the title is good. A revenue entry is presumed true until the contrary is proved, and a title investigation by your own advocate is the only thing that tests it.

  2. Conversion — agricultural land to a non-agricultural use

    Agricultural land cannot lawfully carry an apartment until the Deputy Commissioner has permitted its diversion to a non-agricultural purpose under section 95 of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964.

    Granted by
    The Deputy Commissioner of the district, Revenue Department, Government of Karnataka
    Ask for
    The conversion order
    Under
    Section 95, Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964

    The procedure has changed materially and recently, so a description written from memory would be wrong. On the date at the head of this page the Revenue Department's own conversion portal offers Apply for Land Conversion, View Conversion Status and a report headed Land Conversion Final Orders Consolidated, and its status report lists Affidavit Conversion as one of the Types of Conversion alongside Reconversion.

    That affidavit route is the change. Karnataka now permits conversion on a notarised affidavit in prescribed forms rather than only on a full enquiry, with the master plan doing the work the enquiry used to do — which is why the next stage in this list is not optional.

    Ask for the order and read it against the survey numbers on everything else. A conversion order names the survey numbers, the extent and the purpose permitted, and a purpose is not a general licence: land converted for one non-agricultural use has not been converted for every non-agricultural use.

    What it proves

    That the diversion of these survey numbers, to this stated purpose, has been permitted.

    What it does not prove

    That the building proposed on the land is permitted. Conversion answers what the land may be used for. What may be built on it is the next three stages.

    Land Conversion Final Orders Consolidated(opens in a new tab)

  3. Development permission, and the commencement certificate

    Under the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961 no change of land use or development may be made except with the written permission of the Planning Authority, and that permission is the commencement certificate.

    Granted by
    The Planning Authority for the area, constituted under the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961
    Ask for
    The commencement certificate
    Under
    Sections 14 and 15, Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961

    Section 14 is the section that makes the master plan bite: every land use, every change in land use and every development in the plan area has to conform to the plan, and the written permission that allows a development to start is expressed as a commencement certificate in the prescribed form.

    Section 15 governs what the Authority does with the application — acknowledge it, enquire, and then grant or refuse — and provides that if it does not communicate a decision within three months of the acknowledgment the certificate is deemed to have been granted. A deemed grant is a real grant, and it is also a grant with no reasoned order behind it, which is worth knowing when you ask to see the certificate.

    Which Planning Authority applies depends on where the land sits, and this page does not guess. The certificate itself names the authority that issued it, which is the honest way to find out.

    What it proves

    That the Planning Authority has permitted a development of this description on this land, consistent with the master plan.

    What it does not prove

    That the building as designed is sanctioned. The commencement certificate permits development; the building plan sanction approves a specific building.

  4. The sanctioned building plan and licence

    The local authority sanctions the actual drawings — floors, setbacks, heights, parking, common areas — and the sanctioned plan is the document every later stage is measured against.

    Granted by
    The local authority for the area: a city corporation, a town municipal council, a town panchayat or a development authority, depending on where the land sits
    Ask for
    The sanctioned building plan, with the licence or permission that accompanies it
    Under
    The building bye-laws of the local authority, made under the municipal or development-authority statute that constitutes it

    This is the document to ask for by name and to read, because it is the only one that describes the building you would be buying into rather than describing permission in the abstract. The number of floors on it, the setbacks on it and the common areas on it are the standard against which an occupancy certificate is later granted or refused.

    For anything inside Bengaluru, note that the civic body has changed. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike was dissolved in 2025 and replaced by the Greater Bengaluru Authority together with five city corporations — Bengaluru Central, East, West, North and South. A very large amount of what is written online still names BBMP as the sanctioning body, and for a plan sanctioned today that is out of date.

    For land outside the city corporations — much of the Sarjapur Road and Anekal side of Bengaluru Urban district is outside them — the sanctioning body is a different local authority again. The plan itself carries the seal of whoever sanctioned it.

    What it proves

    That this specific building, at these dimensions, has been sanctioned by a named authority.

    What it does not prove

    That what was built matches it. That comparison is what the occupancy certificate stage is for, and it is the comparison we would urge you to make yourself.

  5. Environmental clearance, where the project needs one

    Building and construction projects above a threshold set by the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006 require prior environmental clearance before construction begins.

    Granted by
    The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority for Karnataka, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
    Ask for
    The environmental clearance letter, with its conditions
    Under
    Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006, Schedule item 8(a), made under section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986

    This page does not print the built-up-area threshold. That figure sits in the Schedule to a notification which has been amended more than once and litigated more than once, and a number copied onto a promoter's website is a number that was true on the day somebody typed it.

    Read the current Schedule, and check a project's status, on the Ministry's own PARIVESH portal. A clearance is also a bundle of conditions rather than a permission — the conditions on the letter are the interesting part, and they are enforceable.

    What it proves

    That the project was assessed against the notification and cleared, subject to the conditions printed on the letter.

    What it does not prove

    Anything about structural quality, delivery or the truth of the marketing. It is an environmental instrument.

    PARIVESH — MoEFCC(opens in a new tab)

  6. Consent from the State Pollution Control Board

    Establishing and then operating a project that discharges sewage or emits to air requires the consent of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board — one consent before construction, a second for the running building.

    Granted by
    Karnataka State Pollution Control Board
    Ask for
    Consent for Establishment, and later Consent for Operation
    Under
    Section 25, Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 · Section 21, Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

    These are two consents at two different moments, and the second one matters to a buyer more than the first. Consent for Establishment is granted before construction. Consent for Operation is granted for the running building, and it is the one that concerns the sewage treatment plant you will be paying to maintain.

    Ask which of the two the project holds today, and ask to see the validity on the face of the consent.

    What it proves

    That the Board has consented to establishment, or to operation, on stated conditions.

    What it does not prove

    That the plant it consented to has been built or is working. A consent is a permission, not an inspection report.

    Karnataka State Pollution Control Board(opens in a new tab)

  7. Fire clearance for a high rise

    Section 13 of the Karnataka Fire Force Act, 1964, as amended in 2023, requires a person proposing to construct a high rise building to obtain a No Objection Certificate from the Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services.

    Granted by
    Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services
    Ask for
    The fire No Objection Certificate
    Under
    Section 13, Karnataka Fire Force Act, 1964, as amended by the Karnataka Fire Force (Amendment) Act, 2023

    The amendment matters because it moved the fire NOC from a matter of bye-laws into the Act itself, and it ties the definition of a high rise building to the National Building Code of India, 2016 rather than leaving it to local practice.

    There are usually two of these as well: a clearance at the plan stage and a final clearance for the completed building. The second one is the one an occupancy certificate depends on.

    What it proves

    That the fire service has no objection to the building as presented to it, on the conditions stated.

    What it does not prove

    That fire safety equipment is installed and maintained today. That is a continuing obligation of whoever manages the building.

  8. Height clearance, where the site is near an aerodrome

    A structure near an aerodrome needs a height No Objection Certificate, and the Airports Authority of India runs an online system for both checking the permissible height and applying for one.

    Granted by
    Airports Authority of India, under the Ministry of Civil Aviation
    Ask for
    The height clearance No Objection Certificate
    Under
    Ministry of Civil Aviation (Height Restrictions for Safeguarding of Aircraft Operations) Rules, 2015, made under the Aircraft Act, 1934

    The permissible height at a given coordinate is published rather than negotiated: the Authority's NOCAS system will show it for a point on a map. That makes this one of the few approvals in this list a buyer can sanity-check without asking anybody for a document.

    Whether a particular site needs one at all depends on its position relative to an aerodrome, and that is exactly what the system answers.

    What it proves

    That the structure's height has been cleared for aircraft-operation safety.

    What it does not prove

    Anything else at all. It is a height rule.

    AAI NOCAS(opens in a new tab)

  9. RERA registration — where the whole stack becomes checkable

    Section 3(1) of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 forbids advertising, marketing, booking, selling or inviting purchase without registering the project, and section 4(2)(c) requires the approvals above to be filed with the Authority as part of that registration.

    Granted by
    Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority
    Ask for
    The registration certificate, with the registration number on its face
    Under
    Sections 3(1) and 4(2)(c), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016

    This is the hinge of the entire page. Everything above it is a document a promoter holds and you have to ask for. Section 4(2)(c) makes the promoter lodge an authenticated copy of the approvals and commencement certificate with the regulator, and the register is public — so from this stage onwards a stranger can check the promoter without the promoter's cooperation.

    It is also the stage that tells you what a project is not allowed to do. Section 3(1) does not merely require registration before selling; it forbids advertising and marketing and inviting purchase in any manner. A project that is named as forthcoming and carries no price, no area, no date and no enquiry form is a project being handled correctly.

    Our own two Karnataka registrations are published in full on our registrations page, and we have written a step-by-step walkthrough of the regulator's own search so you can run them yourself.

    What it proves

    That the Authority granted registration on a stated date, on an application accompanied by the approvals filed with it.

    What it does not prove

    That the project is complete, that it is on schedule, or that the Authority has audited anything. The register prints dates and lets you compare them; it does not print a verdict.

    K-RERA(opens in a new tab)

  10. The registered agreement for sale

    Section 13(1) of the Act stops a promoter taking more than a tenth of the cost before a written agreement for sale is entered into and registered.

    Granted by
    The Sub-Registrar for the jurisdiction, Department of Stamps and Registration, Government of Karnataka
    Ask for
    The registered agreement for sale
    Under
    Section 13(1), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 · Section 17(1A), Registration Act, 1908

    The word registered in that section is not decoration. Section 17(1A) of the Registration Act, inserted in 2001, provides that a contract to transfer immovable property for the purposes of section 53A of the Transfer of Property Act must be registered, and that an unregistered one has no effect for the purposes of that section.

    An agreement for sale is nevertheless not a conveyance, and confusing the two is an expensive misunderstanding to make. We have given it a page of its own.

    What it proves

    That the terms, the payment schedule and the specification are recorded in an instrument on the public register.

    What it does not prove

    That you own anything. Section 54 of the Transfer of Property Act says in terms that a contract for sale does not, of itself, create any interest in or charge on the property.

  11. The occupancy certificate

    The occupancy certificate is the competent authority's permission to occupy the building, and the Act makes obtaining it and handing it over the promoter's responsibility.

    Granted by
    The competent authority under the local laws — the body that sanctioned the plan
    Ask for
    The occupancy certificate
    Under
    Section 2(zf) and section 11(4)(b), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016

    Read the statutory definition in section 2(zf) closely, because it contains a requirement people miss: the certificate is one issued by the competent authority permitting occupation of a building which has provision for civic infrastructure such as water, sanitation and electricity. Occupancy is not a formality about paperwork; it is a finding that the building is fit to be lived in.

    Section 11(4)(b) puts the duty on the promoter both to obtain it and to make it available to allottees individually or to the association. So it is a document you are entitled to be given, not one you have to extract.

    This site publishes no possession, completion or handover date for any project, anywhere. Where a completion date exists it is on the regulator's register, on the row for the project, and the register is the place to read it.

    What it proves

    That the authority which sanctioned the building has permitted its occupation.

    What it does not prove

    That every deviation from the sanctioned plan was cured. Compare the sanctioned plan against what stands, and ask about anything that differs.

  12. The conveyance deed, its registration, and the khata that follows

    Ownership passes on a registered conveyance deed, and only afterwards does the municipal or panchayat register catch up by recording you as the holder.

    Granted by
    The Sub-Registrar for the jurisdiction, then the city corporation or gram panchayat for the khata
    Ask for
    The registered conveyance deed, followed by the khata in the appropriate property register
    Under
    Section 54, Transfer of Property Act, 1882 · Sections 17(1)(b) and 49, Registration Act, 1908 · Section 17(1), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016

    Section 17(1) of the RERA Act obliges the promoter to execute a registered conveyance deed in your favour along with the undivided proportionate title in the common areas to the association, and to hand over physical possession and the other title documents.

    The khata comes last and is an administrative record, not a title document. In Bengaluru it now sits with the five city corporations under the Greater Bengaluru Authority, on the state's e-Aasthi system; for property under a gram panchayat it sits on the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department's e-Swathu system. Neither register decides who owns anything.

    What it proves

    That ownership was transferred by a registered instrument, and afterwards that the property register records you as the holder for its own purposes.

    What it does not prove

    In the case of the khata, ownership. It records who the local body will bill and correspond with.

    e-Swathu — RDPR, Karnataka(opens in a new tab)

The statutes behind it

Where the law actually says this

Every claim above about what a promoter, an allottee or an authority must do is a claim about a statute, so the statute is quoted with its citation attached. Where we are confident of the provision but have not transcribed the wording from a primary text in this pass, it is cited and not quoted, and that difference is marked.

The statute’s own words

No promoter shall advertise, market, book, sell or offer for sale, or invite persons to purchase in any manner any plot, apartment or building, as the case may be, in any real estate project or part of it, in any planning area, without registering the real estate project with the Real Estate Regulatory Authority established under this Act
Section 3(1), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016The sentence continues into provisos dealing with projects ongoing when the Act commenced. Quoted this far because these are the words that govern what an unregistered project may and may not appear on a website doing — and the answer is nothing beyond being named.

The statute’s own words

an authenticated copy of the approvals and commencement certificate from the competent authority obtained in accordance with the laws as may be applicable for the real estate project mentioned in the application, and where the project is proposed to be developed in phases, an authenticated copy of the approvals and commencement certificate from the competent authority for each of such phases;
Section 4(2)(c), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016This is the provision that makes the rest of this page checkable. The approvals are not merely obtained; authenticated copies of them are lodged with the regulator as part of the registration application.

The statute’s own words

except with the written permission of the Planning Authority which shall be contained in a commencement certificate granted by the Planning Authority in the form prescribed
Section 14, Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961Marginal heading: Enforcement of the Master Plan and the Regulations. Quoted as a fragment, and marked as one: this is the clause within section 14 that names the document, not the whole section. The section requires every land use, every change of land use and every development in the plan area to conform to the plan.

The statute’s own words

“occupancy certificate” means the occupancy certificate, or such other certificate by whatever name called, issued by the competent authority permitting occupation of any building, as provided under local laws, which has provision for civic infrastructure such as water, sanitation and electricity;
Section 2(zf), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016

The statute’s own words

be responsible to obtain the completion certificate or the occupancy certificate, or both, as applicable, from the relevant competent authority as per local laws or other laws for the time being in force and to make it available to the allottees individually or to the association of allottees, as the case may be;
Section 11(4)(b), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016

The statute’s own words

The promoter shall execute a registered conveyance deed in favour of the allottee along with the undivided proportionate title in the common areas to the association of the allottees or the competent authority, as the case may be, and hand over the physical possession of the plot, apartment of building, as the case may be, to the allottees and the common areas to the association of the allottees or the competent authority, as the case may be, in a real estate project, and the other title documents pertaining thereto within specified period as per sanctioned plans as provided under the local laws
Section 17(1), Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016The spelling apartment of building is the Act's own. The sentence continues into a proviso about the position where there is no local law.

Cited, not quoted

The provision is named so you can read it yourself. The wording is not reproduced here, because we have not transcribed it from a primary text in this pass and a paraphrase in quotation marks is worse than no quotation.

  • Consent to establish and later to operate is required from the State Pollution Control Board for a project of this kind.

    Section 25, Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 · Section 21, Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

  • A person proposing to construct a high rise building must obtain a No Objection Certificate from the state fire service, with high rise defined by reference to the National Building Code of India, 2016.

    Section 13, Karnataka Fire Force Act, 1964, as amended by the Karnataka Fire Force (Amendment) Act, 2023

  • Prior environmental clearance is required for building and construction projects above the threshold in the Schedule, and the State authority grants it.

    Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006, Schedule item 8(a), under section 3, Environment (Protection) Act, 1986

  • Height clearance near an aerodrome is governed by rules made under the Aircraft Act, and administered by the Airports Authority of India.

    Ministry of Civil Aviation (Height Restrictions for Safeguarding of Aircraft Operations) Rules, 2015

  • The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike was dissolved and Bengaluru reorganised under a new authority with five city corporations.

    Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024

  • The declaration that brings an apartment building under the apartment-ownership regime, and the association that follows it, come from the state apartment statute rather than from the sale documents.

    Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972

  • The conversion procedure under section 95 was substantially rewritten at the rules level in 2025, introducing notarised affidavits in prescribed forms and deemed approval on the expiry of a period.

    Karnataka Land Revenue (Amendment) Rules, 2025

Terms used above are defined on the glossary, with the statutory wording wherever a statute defines them.

Where this goes wrong

Four things worth knowing before you read anything else online

Two of these are about how the chain works. Two are about Karnataka specifically, and both of those are reasons that a large amount of what is published about Bengaluru approvals is now out of date.

Approved is not a fact about a project. It is a fact about a document

There are at least nine different authorities in the chain above, and each of them grants a different thing on a different date under a different section. A project can hold a conversion order and no commencement certificate. It can hold a sanctioned plan and no fire clearance. It can hold every construction approval and no occupancy certificate.

So the useful question is never is it approved. It is: may I see the conversion order, the commencement certificate, the sanctioned plan, the RERA registration certificate, and — when the building is finished — the occupancy certificate. Five named documents, each of which either exists or does not.

The order is the argument

Each stage in the list above presupposes the one before it. A commencement certificate is granted for land that may lawfully be used that way, which is what conversion settles. A building plan is sanctioned within a development that has permission. An occupancy certificate is granted against a sanctioned plan.

That is why a document out of order is worth asking about. It is also why a stack that stops halfway is not a partial answer but a specific one: it tells you exactly which stage the project has reached.

Much of what you will read online names a civic body that no longer exists

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike was dissolved in 2025, and Bengaluru is now administered by the Greater Bengaluru Authority together with five city corporations — Central, East, West, North and South. Sanction, khata and property tax all sit differently as a result.

Guides, blog posts and even some official-looking pages have not caught up. If a page tells you to approach BBMP for a khata or a plan sanction, that page was written before the change and you should check the current position before acting on any of it.

Not everything in Bengaluru Urban district is inside a city corporation

A great deal of the land on the southern and eastern edges of the district — including much of the Sarjapur Road corridor and Anekal taluk — falls outside the city corporations, under a planning authority and a gram panchayat instead. The approving bodies are different, the property register is different, and the khata is issued by a different office on a different system.

This page therefore names the class of authority at each stage rather than asserting which particular office applies to a particular project. The documents themselves name the issuing authority on their face, and that is the reliable way to find out.

Figures this page does not print

Where the current number is published

Conversion fines, stamp duty, registration fees, tax and the environmental threshold all move by notification. A figure copied onto a promoter's website is a figure that was true on the day somebody typed it, and you have no way of telling which day that was. So each one is named here with the body that publishes it, and nothing more.

Stamp duty and registration fees on a Karnataka instrument

Karnataka Department of Stamps and Registration

Open the source(opens in a new tab)

Conversion fine and fees under section 95

Revenue Department, Government of Karnataka — land conversion services

Open the source(opens in a new tab)

The built-up-area threshold that triggers environmental clearance

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change — PARIVESH

Open the source(opens in a new tab)

Goods and services tax on an under-construction sale

Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

Open the source(opens in a new tab)

Questions

The ones people actually ask

Each answer below is published as the page's answer to that question in its structured data, in exactly the words printed here.

What documents should I actually ask a Karnataka developer for?

Five, by name: the conversion order under section 95 of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964; the commencement certificate under the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961; the sanctioned building plan from the local authority; the RERA registration certificate; and, once the building is finished, the occupancy certificate. Each either exists or does not, which makes them far better questions than asking whether a project is approved.

Does RERA registration mean the government has checked the project?

It means the promoter filed an application accompanied by authenticated copies of the approvals and commencement certificate, as section 4(2)(c) of the Act requires, and that the Authority granted registration. It is not an audit, an endorsement or a guarantee of delivery. What it does is make the underlying paperwork checkable by a stranger on a public register.

Who issues the occupancy certificate in Bengaluru now that BBMP has been dissolved?

The competent authority under the local laws — in practice, the body that sanctioned the plan. Inside Bengaluru that is now one of the five city corporations under the Greater Bengaluru Authority rather than BBMP, which was dissolved in 2025. Outside the corporations it is the relevant local authority or planning authority. The sanctioned plan names the issuing body on its face.

Is a khata proof that I own the flat?

No. A khata is an entry in a property register kept by a local body so it knows who to bill and correspond with. Ownership passes on a registered conveyance deed under section 54 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, read with the Registration Act, 1908. The khata follows the deed; it does not create the right.

Can a project advertise before it is registered with RERA?

No. Section 3(1) of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 forbids a promoter to advertise, market, book, sell or offer for sale, or invite persons to purchase in any manner, without registering the project. An unregistered project may be named as forthcoming; it may not be given a price, an area, a date or an enquiry form.

The honest gap

What we could not check, and therefore left out

This page describes the chain. It does not claim anything about our own compliance with it, and it does not guess at which particular office applies to which particular site. These are the things we did not verify, listed rather than smoothed over.

  • Which specific planning authority, local authority or corporation applies to any particular site. This page names the class of body at each stage on purpose. The certificate, the sanction and the order each name their issuer, and that is the only reliable answer.

  • The current built-up-area threshold in Schedule item 8(a) of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006. It has been amended and litigated, and we did not read the notification as currently in force in this pass. Read it on the Ministry's PARIVESH portal.

  • The exact date on which the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike was dissolved and the Greater Bengaluru Authority took over. We did not read the commencement notification, so we say 2025 and do not print a day.

  • The wording of section 13 of the Karnataka Fire Force Act, 1964 as amended in 2023, of section 25 of the Water Act, of section 21 of the Air Act, and of the Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972. These are cited and not quoted, because we did not transcribe them from a bare-Act text in this pass.

  • The Karnataka Land Revenue (Amendment) Rules, 2025 as published in the Gazette. What we verified directly is that the Revenue Department's live conversion portal offers Affidavit Conversion as a type of conversion; the rule-level detail behind it is cited, not quoted.

  • Whether any particular SUYUG project holds any particular approval on any particular date. This page describes the chain, not our compliance with it. Ask us for the documents by name and check the registration on the regulator's own register.

Why there is no HowTo markup on this page

The other guides in this set publish their procedures as structured HowTo data, because each of them is something you carry out: a search, an application, a verification. This one is not. You do not obtain a conversion order or grant a commencement certificate — a promoter does, and an authority does.

Marking this chain as a procedure would tell a machine that a reader can perform steps a reader cannot perform. So the structured data here is an ordered list of the stages, generated from the same array the page renders, and a set of questions and answers in the same words as the ones printed above. Nothing is published that the page does not show.

The procedures that are procedures are on the guides index.

Keep going

The rest of this set

Four pages about the records rather than the registers: what a land record proves, what the whole approval chain is, what an encumbrance certificate covers, and which instrument actually transfers a property.

Then go and check us

Every registration this site publishes is on the registrations page, with the regulator, the promoter as registered and the survey numbers transcribed from the certificate. The portal walkthroughs show you how to search the regulator’s own register for them. Read those after this, not before.

SUYUG registrationsEvery guide

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