CHANDIGARH, May 16 — Real estate developers in Haryana face stringently tighter compliance timelines under a newly notified penalty structure that mandates fines up to ₹50 lakh for delays in submitting mandatory property declarations.
The Town and Country Planning Department issued the enforcement directive following regulatory amendments passed under the Haryana Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2025. The revised framework targets colonizers and builders who fail to file their Deed of Declaration within 90 days of securing an occupation or completion certificate.
“The new penalty structure was notified by the Town and Country Planning Department through a memo dated May 5, 2026, following amendments introduced under the Haryana Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2025,” regulatory documents stated, noting that the financial liabilities escalate sharply based on the length of the default.
Under the specific breakdown of the new policy, a delay of up to 60 days will incur a ₹10 lakh penalty, which rises progressively by month. Delays stretching between 150 and 180 days will hit the maximum ceiling of ₹50 lakh. Furthermore, the updated legislation dictates that these base penalties will automatically escalate by 10 percent every three years.
Administrative officials stated that the updated rules are being applied retroactively from October 30, 2025, which marks the date the original ordinance took effect. For ongoing defaults that began prior to this cut-off, authorities stated that a dual-tiered system will calculate fines using the older 2013 rate for the initial period and the stricter 2025 rates for the subsequent days.
The department noted that unpaid fines will not be permitted to linger, as outstanding sums will be legally recovered as arrears of land revenue. Once a developer clears the assigned penalty, the town planning director will issue an order formally compounding the statutory offense.
