Haryana Amends Urban Development Law, Cabinet accords approves the Ordinance

Chandigarh, January 1- With the objective of preventing misuse of exchange deeds for unauthorized land transactions in notified urban areas,  the government proposes to amend section 7A of Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975 (hereinafter called the principal Act), by inserting ‘exchange deeds’ under this section.

The State Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Nayab Singh Saini here today approved  the said amendment by issuance of the ‘Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas (Haryana Amendment) Ordinance, 2025’.

The amendment seeks to ensure that exchange deeds, which are increasingly being used as indirect sale instruments, are brought under the regulatory framework of the Act.