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HMDA, RERA and DTCP: three papers, and the job of each one.

HMDA, RERA and DTCP answer different questions. A villa or a flat is read against HMDA and, where the page says so, RERA. An open-plot layout at Nemila is DTCP, which is not an HMDA approval.

Autumn – Luxury Villas, Thummaloor, Hyderabad — Autumn – Luxury Villas · Thummaloor, Hyderabad

One sentence on the brochure is not the file

HMDA RERA and DTCP appear on project pages as names of permissions. They are not interchangeable. HMDA, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, is the planning permission a buyer asks to see for a building inside the metropolitan area. RERA, the real-estate regulator, is a registration of a project that is being sold. DTCP, the directorate of town and country planning, is the permission associated with a plotted layout.

A page that says HMDA Approved has named the kind of paper. It has not printed the number. The same is true of RERA Registered. The useful visit is the one where the file for that project is opened and the name on it is compared with the project being sold.

Which paper this book actually names

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Autumn Luxury Villas at Thummaloor lists HMDA Approved for the duplex community. It does not list a number on the public page. MPR Urban City at Pati Ghanpur lists HMDA Approved and RERA Registered for the flats. SV Garudadri at Ghatkesar lists HMDA and RERA as well. None of those numbers is invented here.

Nemila DTCP Open Plots lists DTCP, a clear title, and spot registration. That layout is not described as HMDA, and it should not be. A buyer who wants a house that is already designed is reading Autumn or a flat. A buyer who wants land to build on later is reading the DTCP layout. The paper follows the purchase.

HMDAPlanning permission for a project in the metropolitan area. Ask for the approval itself.
RERAA project registration. The page may say Registered. The number is in the file.
DTCPA layout permission. Nemila’s open plots use this. It is not HMDA.
A villaAutumn lists HMDA Approved. Read that paper against the villa, not against a plot.
A flatMPR and SV Garudadri list HMDA and RERA. Ask to see both.
A plotNemila DTCP is the ongoing open-plot layout. Confirm DTCP, not a villa approval.

Points worth keeping

HMDA, RERA and DTCP are different permissions. A brochure adjective is not the document.
Autumn lists HMDA. MPR and SV Garudadri list HMDA and RERA. Nemila’s open plots list DTCP.
This note does not print approval numbers. Those belong in the file you are shown.

Sizes, approvals, and rates in this note are the ones printed on the project page.