Plots in Panagar, Jabalpur

Panagar tehsil sits on the Jabalpur–Katangi road, north-east of the city. Most of what sells here is plotted land — gated townships and open plots — rather than built houses. Because these colonies fall in gram panchayat areas, the approval route is different from a colony inside the city, and that difference is the single most important thing to check before you buy.

About Panagar, Jabalpur

Panagar is a tehsil of Jabalpur district in Madhya Pradesh, on the Jabalpur–Katangi route. Land records for this area — khasra (खसरा), khatauni (खतौनी) and mutation orders — are held at the tehsil revenue office, and villages here fall under gram panchayats rather than the municipal corporation. Villages such as Bihariya lie along this stretch.

Two things shape most plot buying decisions in Panagar. The first is the road. The Jabalpur–Katangi road is the spine of this belt, and a widening is on record: in the Bihariya stretch the road measures roughly 34.90 metres today against a proposed 60 metres, with land reserved from the centre line on either side for that expansion. If a plot sits close to the front, that reservation is worth understanding before you buy, not after.

The second is planning status. Through a Madhya Pradesh gazette notification dated 16 July 2021, the boundary of the Jabalpur Investment Area was revised, and parts of this belt now fall inside that revised boundary. Whether a specific khasra falls inside or outside is not something you should take on trust — it is written in the Town & Country Planning department's opinion letter for a project, and you are entitled to see that letter.

How colony approval works in Panagar — and why it differs from the city

Inside Jabalpur city, a plotted colony is approved by the Nagar Palik Nigam. Panagar is not inside the city. Colonies in gram panchayat areas are developed under the Madhya Pradesh Gram Panchayat (Development of Colonies) Rules, 2014, and the layout plan goes to the Town & Country Planning department for an opinion under Rule 10(2) of those rules before the panchayat side proceeds.

This matters to you in a very practical way. Buyers often ask "is the colony NPN approved?" — and in Panagar the honest answer is that NPN approval is not the applicable route at all. What you should be asking for instead is:

• the Town & Country Planning opinion letter on the layout plan, with its letter number and date
• the colonizer registration certificate, with its case number and date
• the list of khasra numbers that make up the project, and their total area — a township is usually many khasras combined, and each one has its own recorded area
• whether the land is diverted from agricultural use, with a copy of the diversion order
• what the letter records about the site itself — power lines overhead, a nala crossing the land, road widths on each side

Featured: RK Puram Township, Bihariya

A 27-acre gated plotted township at Gram Bihariya, Tehsil Panagar, fronting the Jabalpur–Katangi road. The property page carries the full Town & Country Planning opinion letter — issuing office, letter number, the rule it was issued under, the khasra details, the road widths on record and the colonizer registration number — reproduced as it is, along with site photos, the layout plan and a video walkthrough.

Plots in Panagar — frequently asked questions