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4 posts about water.

An aerial view of walled, empty plots with concrete roads on the left and green wheat fields with an irrigation channel on the right, divided by a raised earth bund.

Indore8 min read नगर निगम के अंदर या बाहर?

Inside or outside municipal limits: gram panchayat or IMC

Inside IMC or in a gram panchayat: who sanctions the colony, who lets you build, who owns the pipe and who sends the bill, and how to find out before you pay.

8 Sep 2025

Rainwater pools in the low corner of an overgrown, walled plot after a shower, with tyre ruts in the mud and painted houses under a grey sky behind.

Buying guides7 min read पानी और ज़मीन

Water, drainage and the plot you are about to buy

Land is bought in April and lived on in August. The slope, the fill, the drain, the supply and the zone — six checks a dry-season site visit misses.

8 Sep 2025

A distribution transformer mounted between two concrete poles at the entrance to a walled colony, with a sandy track running in past a neem tree and a long boundary wall.

Buying guides8 min read सुविधा है या वादा?

Is the colony serviced? Power, water, sewer

A gate, a road and a wall can be finished years before a working connection. Six questions and one visit after dark tell you what you are really buying.

8 Sep 2025

A man in a brown shirt and sandals walks slowly across a bare, rubble-strewn plot beside a concrete kerb, head down, with a half-built house and the city's outskirts behind him.

Buying guides8 min read ज़मीन पर जाकर क्या देखें।

The plot site visit: what to check with your feet

Walk all four sides, pace the road, return at another hour, look down and up, ask the neighbours, photograph the markers with the date on. The site visit list.

8 Sep 2025

Read it. Then check it on the map.

Every colony's boundary, its approved layout, its zoning and its paperwork — on one screen. Signing in is free.

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