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State of Odisha - Section

Section 80 in Cuttack Development Authority (Planning and Building Standards) Regulations, 2001

80. Chawl.

(1)No water closet, privy, urinal, bathroom of washing place in front of the main staircase of the main entrance to chawl shall be constructed in order to avoid their direct visibility to person using such staircase or entrance.
(2)Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulation (1) if it becomes necessary to locate water closet, privy, urinal, bathroom or washing place near the main staircase or entrance, they shall be completely screened off by a partition wall, from the floor to the ceiling without any opening in such partition well except a door.
(3)In a chawl the clear internal dimension of a bathroom sink, washing place and urinal shall not be less than 1.5 metres x 1.2 metres, 1 metres x 1 metre, 1.3 metres x 2 metres and 1 metre x 1 metre, respectively.
(4)No chawl of more than two storey shall be allowed. A chawl may contain single room on double room tenements. In case of single room tenements, the area of living room or the portion used as a living space shall not be less than 11 square metres (120 square feet) in case of double room tenements such area shall not be less than 9.5 square metre (100 square feet).
(5)Every living room whether with or without kitchen shall have window or windows opening directly into an interior or exterior open space or into an open verandah or gallery abutting on such open air space. Such openings shall not be less than one tenth of the floor area of the room and doors and windows taken together shall not be less than one-seventh of such floor area.
(6)The open spaces, the area of kitchen space and the height of partition wall between the kitchen and the living space shall be indicated in Table 16 below :Table-16
Nature of tenement Area of kitchen room or a person of the livingroom used as kitchen Width of interior of exterior open air space onwhich the kitchen room or a person of the living room used askitchen abuts Height of partition wall between the kitchen roomand the living room
Single room 5.5. square metres 2.5 metres Not more than 2 metres
Double room 7.4 square metres 2.5 metres Not more than 2 metres
(7)In a chawl single room tenement no room on the back of another room shall be constructed.
(8)For every four single room or every three double room tenements the following shall be provided.
(i)A sink of not less than a size of 1 square metre
(ii)A water tap
(iii)A loft being one metre in width along any wall of kitchen
(iv)At least one water closet of not less than 1.4 square metres in area, one closed bath room of not less than 1.4 square metres in area one urinal not less than 0.9 square metre in area, one general washing space of not less than 2.2. square metres in area and one covered dustbin.
(9)Every chawl shall be so designed that the facilities indicated in Sub-regulation (8) above shall be on the same floor as the tenements commensurate with the requirement of the number of the tenement located in that floor.
(10)Every tenement shall have access through an open verandah, gallery or passage which shall not be less than 1.9 metres in width and shall about on an interior or exterior open space of the required width.
(11)No upper floor tenement shall be located at a distance of more than 15 metres from staircase.