How to check a builder in Jabalpur against the public record

Why this page has no rankings

We set out to write a “top builders in Jabalpur” list. We abandoned it, and the reason is worth telling you because it is itself useful information about this market.

When we tried to verify which promoter was behind which project from the official register, the mappings would not reproduce reliably. Worse, when we examined the regulator’s own enforcement lists we found them internally contradictory: a substantial number of promoters appear simultaneously on the register of registered projects and on the list of unregistered ones — including a development authority project, and including a project of our own promoter. On one check, 37 promoters appeared on both lists at once.

So any website ranking Jabalpur builders is either using portal data rather than the public record, or it is presenting a contradictory record as if it were clean. We are not going to name a builder as good or bad on that basis, and you should discount anyone who does.

What we can give you is better than a ranking: the method, so you can check any builder yourself — including this one.

Start with MP RERA, and know what it is

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 was passed by the Rajya Sabha on 10 March 2016 and the Lok Sabha on 15 March 2016, received Presidential assent on 25 March 2016, and was gazetted on 26 March 2016. It came into force in stages rather than all at once.

Madhya Pradesh first notified rules under it in the state gazette on 22 October 2016, and the Madhya Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority was established by notification dated 15 December 2016. Those first rules were later superseded.

MP RERA publishes several separate public lists. They answer different questions, and confusing them is the most common mistake:

We are deliberately not reproducing the names on the enforcement lists here. They concern real companies, the underlying data does not reconcile, and republishing it would be unfair as well as unreliable. Open the lists yourself at the links below and read them with the caveats on this page in mind.

Four traps that will mislead you

1. Searching by name returns nothing. Register entries are stored as the promoter typed them, punctuation and all. Our own project is a live example: searching the MP RERA register for “MH Residency” returns कोई रिकॉर्ड नहीं मिला! — no record found — because it is registered as M.H RESIDENCY. An empty name search is not evidence of anything. Always search the registration number.
2. The lists contradict each other. A project can sit on both the registered and the unregistered list at the same time. If a name appears on the unregistered list, check the registered list before drawing any conclusion.
3. “In progress” can be stale. Status labels and quarterly progress entries are only as current as the last filing. A project may show as in progress years after work stopped — or years after it was actually finished. Read the dates, not the label.
4. Years in business cannot be verified from these lists. Founding dates on builder websites are self-claims. We could not independently verify a single one for any Jabalpur builder. The one defensible longevity signal in the public record is the promoter’s earliest registration year on MP RERA — and even that only tells you when they first registered, not when they started.

What to actually read on a project’s record

The genuinely valuable part of an MP RERA project page is not the status line — it is the document list. Each uploaded document is downloadable as a PDF without a login.

On our own record for P-JBP-22-3242 there are 22 uploaded documents, among them the Approval Town & Country Planning, the Coloniser’s Licence, the Development Permission, the Sanctioned Layout Plan, Encumbrances on Land, the Khasra Form, the Nazul Clearance Case and an Engineer’s Certificate. That is the approval chain, in the promoter’s own filed papers, published by the regulator rather than by the seller.

Open those documents for any project you are considering. Then check three things against them:

• Do the khasra numbers on the record match the khasra numbers on the agreement you are being asked to sign?
• Does the sanctioned layout show the plot you are being sold, at the size you are being told?
• Is there a Coloniser’s Licence and a Development Permission, not just a T&CP reference in the brochure?

Beyond RERA

1. The land use certificate. A khasra-wise land use certificate (भू-उपयोग प्रमाण पत्र) from the Directorate of Town and Country Planning is a notified public service with a published timeline. It is the only reliable answer on what the plan permits on that specific land. Our T&CP approval guide explains how to apply.
2. The guideline rate. Get the collector guideline rate for the Mouja and khasra from the sub-registrar or the SAMPADA portal, before you negotiate rather than after.
3. The revenue record. Pull the khasra record and check the recorded bhumiswami against the person selling to you.
4. The agreement. The Act caps what a promoter may take from you before a registered agreement for sale is executed. If you are being asked for a large payment with nothing registered, that is the moment to stop.

Run this on us

We would rather you checked than trusted. MH Residency is on the MP RERA register as M.H RESIDENCY, registration P-JBP-22-3242, District Jabalpur, 165 residential plots, with khasra numbers 46/1, 47, 48, 48/1 in Mouja Laxmipur and 235/1, 235/2, 254/2 in Mouja Kachpura. Search the number, open the documents, and match the khasras.

If something does not match, ask us about it — message us on WhatsApp. A seller who cannot answer questions about their own filed documents is telling you something.

Checked and compiled on 31 August 2026. Registers are updated continuously — read the current version rather than relying on any description of it, including this one.