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The Government of Andhra Pradesh has launched the Building Penalisation Scheme–2025 (BPS-2025), providing a last accidental for spot owners to legalise unauthorised and deviated structures built betwixt January 1, 1985, and August 31, 2025.
Issued done G.O. Ms. No. 225 by the Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department connected November 12, 2025 (Wednesday), the strategy underscores the State’s renewed propulsion for planned municipality maturation and ineligible compliance.
Called the ‘Andhra Pradesh Regulation and Penalization of Buildings Constructed Unauthorizedly and successful Deviation to the Sanctioned Plan Rules, 2025’, the strategy aims to alteration Andhra Pradesh’s municipality scenery into a exemplary of accountability and national participation.
The BPS-2025 follows the partial occurrence of the 2019 scheme, which has near astir 59,041 unauthorised constructions extracurricular the ineligible framework.
Penalisation charges
Applications tin beryllium submitted online astatine www.bps.ap.gov.in successful 120 days from notification, accompanied by ownership proof, drawings, photographs, and certificates from Licensed Technical Personnel.
Penalisation charges scope from ₹40 to ₹400 per sq.ft, portion apartments volition pull ₹20,000 to ₹80,000 per level for deviations. Rebates of 25% for pre-1997 constructions and 50% for houses successful notified slums person been announced.
The strategy covers each municipality section bodies, UDAs, and metropolitan regions, but excludes the Capital City Area of the APCRDA.
Constructions post–August 31, 2025, volition beryllium ineligible and volition pull blacklisting and ineligible action.
Principal Secretary S. Suresh Kumar described the inaugural arsenic a “pragmatic, yet steadfast measure,” stressing that this was the last accidental for regularisation earlier strict enforcement begins.
“Funds accrued done the strategy volition beryllium utilized exclusively for municipality renewal, including Anna Canteens, sewerage projects, flood prevention, and water rejuvenation,” helium said, and urged each the spot owners to use and debar ineligible action.
