TG-iPASS Industrial Building Permission in Telangana (2026): Norms, Approvals & Free PEB Drawings

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TG-iPASS industrial building permission is the route every manufacturer takes to get a factory legally off the ground in Telangana — and the point where most first-time promoters lose three to six months. The clearance itself runs on a statutory clock. What holds projects up is almost never the portal; it is arriving at it with a building design that does not satisfy the setback, coverage, height and exit norms your plot is bound by. This guide sets out what TG-iPASS (still widely searched as TS-iPASS) actually approves, which authority signs off your building plan, the norms your factory drawing must meet, and how a pre-engineered building (PEB) is designed to clear them the first time. Kishore Infratech provides the norms check, basic drawings and an indicative estimate free of cost.

Quick Answer: TG-iPASS (Telangana Industrial Project Approval and Self-Certification System, formerly TS-iPASS) is Telangana’s single-window industrial clearance system, covering roughly 40 approvals across about 23 departments with a statutory timeline of 1–30 days and deemed approval if a department misses it. TG-iPASS is the window, not the approving authority for your building: your factory building plan is approved by the Factories Department together with the local planning authority — HMDA inside the Hyderabad metropolitan area, DTCP or the municipality elsewhere, and TGIIC’s Industrial Area Local Authority (IALA) on an allotted industrial estate plot. Your drawing must satisfy the Common Building Rules (G.O. Ms. No. 168, 2012) for the industrial zone: front setback set by road width, side and rear setbacks by plot size and building height, plus a minimum clear height of 4.27 m (14 ft) in machinery areas, 3.65 m (12 ft) in offices and stores, and at least two exits per manufacturing building. A pre-engineered building clears these comfortably because eave height, clear span and exit placement are design inputs rather than site constraints. Kishore Infratech provides norms guidance, basic drawings and an indicative build estimate free of cost — these are estimates, not quotations.

Disclaimer: This page is technical guidance for planning your building, not legal or statutory advice. Kishore Infratech Private Limited is a pre-engineered building manufacturer — we do not file TG-iPASS applications, act as an approval agency, or liaise with departments on your behalf. We give you the norms that apply to your site and the drawings your architect, structural consultant or licensed technical person submits. Rules, setback tables and fee structures are amended from time to time by Government Order; always confirm the current position with the sanctioning authority or your licensed consultant before finalising a design. All cost figures on this page are indicative estimates for budgeting only, not a price quotation or an offer.

What TG-iPASS Actually Is (And Why It Is Still Searched as TS-iPASS)

TG-iPASS is the Telangana Industrial Project Approval and Self-Certification System, created by the TS-iPASS Act of 2014 and one of the reasons Telangana has consistently ranked near the top of India’s ease-of-doing-business tables. It gives an entrepreneur a single point of access to the clearances required to establish a manufacturing or service unit, instead of walking them through department by department.

Three features matter to you as a person about to build:

• A statutory clock with teeth. Approvals carry defined timelines, broadly 1–30 days depending on complexity. If the department fails to pass final orders in time, the approval is deemed granted, and the Act provides for penalties on the erring official. This is the part that genuinely works.
• Self-certification. For a large share of clearances you certify compliance yourself and the department verifies later. Speed is bought with your own accountability — which is exactly why the drawing you self-certify has to be right the first time.
• Roughly 40 approvals across about 23 departments flow through one window: land conversion, building plan, power, water, fire, pollution control, factory licence, labour registrations and more.

On the name: the system was TS-iPASS until the state’s official abbreviation changed from TS to TG, and it is now TG-iPASS. Both names refer to the same Act and the same portal. If your consultant, your allotment letter or an older circular says TS-iPASS, nothing has changed for you. The department has also begun rolling out TG-iPASS 2.0, an AI-assisted version of the clearance workflow intended to cut scrutiny time further — worth asking your consultant about, because it changes how quickly a resubmission gets re-examined.

TG-iPASS vs TG-bPASS: Which One Applies to Your Factory?

This is the single most common point of confusion, and getting it wrong costs weeks. They are two different systems.

Key takeaway: TG-iPASS is the industrial single-window for setting up a manufacturing or service unit. TG-bPASS is the general building-permission and self-certification system used mainly for residential and commercial construction in municipal areas. If you are building a factory, you go the TG-iPASS route, and the building-permission component is handled within it by the relevant planning authority.

In plain terms: a promoter building a 60,000 sq ft factory on a TGIIC plot at Zaheerabad goes through TG-iPASS, and TGIIC’s Industrial Area Local Authority sanctions the building plan. A promoter building the same factory on privately purchased land inside GHMC limits also goes through TG-iPASS, but the building plan is sanctioned by GHMC or HMDA under the same industrial-zone rules. Either way, the drawing has to satisfy the same technical norms.

Who Actually Approves Your Factory Building Plan?

TG-iPASS is a window. Behind it sit real departments that each look at your drawing for a different reason. Understanding which one is examining what tells you which detail on your drawing is likely to get it returned.

Key takeaway: Four bodies matter for the building itself — the planning authority for the plot (HMDA, DTCP, the municipality, or the TGIIC IALA), the Factories Department for the factory plan under the Factories Act, the Fire Services Department where the building crosses the height or occupancy trigger, and TGPCB for consent to establish. A PEB factory drawing that carries eave height, exit widths, plot coverage and setback dimensions explicitly on the sheet gets through all four with far fewer queries than a drawing that leaves them to be inferred.

Note the SEIAA line carefully, because it catches people by surprise. Twenty thousand square metres is roughly 215,000 sq ft of built-up area. A single large warehouse or a phased factory campus can cross it without the promoter realising, and environmental clearance is a months-long process that cannot be compressed. If your master plan totals anywhere near that figure, phase the built-up area deliberately or budget the EC timeline in from day one.

Industrial Building Norms in Telangana: What Your Drawing Must Satisfy

Industrial building permission in Telangana is governed by the Common Building Rules notified under G.O. Ms. No. 168 (2012) and its subsequent amendments, which set out floor area ratio, ground coverage, setbacks and parking for each use zone. Industrial land falls under Zone I (general industrial) and Zone I-H (hi-tech industrial), and the norms differ between them.

Key takeaway: The rule structure is what you need to design around, and it is stable even when the numbers are amended. Front setback is driven by the width of the abutting road. Side and rear setbacks are driven by plot size and building height, and once a building crosses 15 m in height the plot-size table is replaced by a uniform all-round setback with a 7 m minimum. Parking is broadly one car space per 150 sq m of floor area plus lorry parking per 1,000 sq m. Clear height must be at least 4.27 m where machinery is installed and 3.65 m in offices and stores, and every manufacturing building needs a minimum of two exits.

The specific setback, coverage and FAR figures for your plot depend on the zone, the plot area, the abutting road width and the sanctioning authority, and they are amended periodically by Government Order. Treat the table above as the rule structure to design around, and confirm the current numeric values for your site with the sanctioning authority or your licensed technical person before finalising the drawing. Send us your plot details and we will run this check for you free of charge.

Why a PEB Clears These Norms More Easily Than a Conventional Building

This is the part most approval guides never explain, and it is where the choice of structural system quietly decides how smooth your permission process is.

Key takeaway: Almost every building norm above is a dimensional constraint — a height, a span, a setback, a distance to an exit. In a conventional RCC building those dimensions are consequences of the structural system, so meeting a norm often means redesigning the frame. In a pre-engineered building they are inputs: you specify a 9 m eave height or a 30 m clear span and the frame is engineered to it. A 60,000 sq ft PEB factory can be re-proportioned to a revised setback in days, where the equivalent RCC redesign takes weeks and changes the cost base.

• Clear height is specified, not inherited. The 4.27 m machinery-area minimum is a floor, not a target. PEB eave heights of 6–12 m are routine, so you satisfy the norm and get crane clearance, mezzanine headroom and stacking height in the same decision.
• Setbacks cap your span, and clear span is what PEB does best. Once the setback strip is deducted, you know the width available. A PEB portal frame delivers 18 m, 24 m, 30 m and beyond column-free, so you use the permitted footprint fully instead of losing floor plan to a column grid.
• Exits and openings are frame decisions. Bay spacing is chosen, so exit doors, roller shutters and dock positions can be placed where the travel-distance rule wants them rather than where a column happens to fall.
• Ground coverage and FAR are managed with mezzanines. Where coverage limits your footprint, a structural steel mezzanine adds area within the same shell — and because it is designed into the frame from the start, it does not need retrofitting later.
• Revisions are cheap before fabrication starts. If the authority returns the drawing with a setback correction, a PEB layout is re-proportioned in the design stage at no material cost. That is the difference between a two-week delay and a two-month one.
• Erection speed protects your allotment and lease timelines. TGIIC allotments and project commitments carry commencement and completion conditions. A PEB shell erects in a fraction of conventional time, which is often what keeps a project inside its committed schedule.

What Kishore Infratech Gives You Free of Cost

We build factories in Telangana for a living. Over 45 years and 700-plus projects we have watched the same avoidable delays repeat, so we made the first stage free. There is no charge and no obligation to buy.

• Norms guidance for your specific plot. Tell us the location, plot area, abutting road width and whether it is a TGIIC allotment or private land. We come back with the setback, coverage, FAR, height and parking position that applies to you, and the maximum practical building footprint that leaves.
• Basic drawings. A block layout, a key section showing eave and clear height, and an elevation — the drawings your architect or licensed technical person needs as a starting point for the submission set. They are yours to take to whichever consultant you like.
• An indicative build estimate. A realistic budgeting range for the PEB shell by covered area, so you can size the project and talk to your bank before you commit. It is an estimate for planning, not a quotation.
• A straight answer on feasibility. If your plot will not carry the building you have in mind, we will tell you that at this stage rather than after you have paid for a design.

What we do not do, stated plainly: we do not file your TG-iPASS application, we do not act as a liaison or approval agency, and we do not certify compliance on your behalf. Statutory submission and certification are done by you and your licensed technical person. We are the people who design and build the structure, and this guidance exists so the structure is right before it goes in.

This offer is intended for projects of roughly 20,000 sq ft covered area and above, which is the scale at which we work.

Indicative PEB Build Estimates for a Telangana Factory (2026)

Key takeaway: For budgeting a TG-iPASS factory project in Telangana in 2026, a PEB shell — primary steel, secondary framing, roof and wall sheeting, erection — runs an estimated ₹950 to ₹1,400 per sq ft, with civil work (foundations, plinth, flooring) adding an estimated ₹450 to ₹750 per sq ft and MEP a further ₹200 to ₹450 per sq ft depending on process load. A 50,000 sq ft factory therefore budgets at an estimated ₹8.0 to ₹13.0 crore all-in, of which the PEB shell is roughly ₹4.75 to ₹7.0 crore. These are estimates for planning, not quotations.

Ranges are wide because process type drives them. A dry-goods warehouse sits near the bottom of each band; a pharma or food-processing unit with heavy MEP, epoxy flooring and clean-room interfaces sits at the top. Note that the 200,000 sq ft line is above the SEIAA environmental clearance trigger of 20,000 sq m built-up, so budget that timeline in as well. For a fuller breakdown by building type see our industrial shed cost calculator and our warehouse construction cost guide.

Why Kishore Infratech for a TG-iPASS Factory Project

Kishore Infratech Private Limited (KIPL) is an ISO 9001:2015 certified PEB manufacturer headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana, with 45+ years of steel fabrication experience and 700+ completed projects totalling over 45 lakh sq ft of constructed area. Telangana is our home state, not an export market. Based on our experience building factories, warehouses and processing units across TGIIC estates, HMDA-area private plots and district industrial parks, the design decisions that decide whether a building permission goes through cleanly are made long before the drawing is submitted.

• We know the local authorities’ expectations. HMDA, DTCP, GHMC and the TGIIC IALAs each have their own drawing conventions and recurring queries. Our layouts are prepared with those in mind.
• In-house design and fabrication. 17 advanced machines under one roof, including CNC and automatic H-beam lines, so a design revision does not mean a new vendor and a new lead time.
• IS-code compliant engineering. Wind loading to IS 875 Part 3, steel design to IS 800, with material test certificates for every structural lot.
• Design-to-erection under one contract. One accountable party from the first sketch to handover, which matters when a project is running against a commencement condition.
• Every industrial category. Factories, warehouses, pharma units, food processing plants, cold storage, godowns and multi-gable campuses across Telangana and South India.

If your plot is inside a TGIIC industrial area, read our guide to being a PEB manufacturer under TGIIC’s IALAs and our overview of industrial parks in Telangana. Still choosing a location? See the top 15 industrial areas in Hyderabad. Before you finalise the design, it is worth reading the 15 most common mistakes people make building an industrial shed in Hyderabad, our comparison of RCC construction vs PEB sheds, and the realistic PEB construction timeline so your project schedule matches your approval schedule. If ground coverage is limiting your footprint, our guide to mezzanine floors for industrial sheds covers how to add area within the same shell.

Frequently Asked Questions: TG-iPASS Industrial Building Permission

Data methodology: Regulatory content on this page is drawn from the TS-iPASS Act 2014 and its subsequent notifications, the Telangana Common Building Rules notified under G.O. Ms. No. 168 (2012) and its amendments, the Factories Act 1948 with the Telangana Factories Rules, and published guidance from HMDA, DTCP and TGIIC. Cost figures are based on Kishore Infratech Private Limited’s project data from 700+ completed PEB projects across Telangana and South India, at current 2026 market rates for SAIL and JSW structural steel. Building rules are amended periodically by Government Order — verify the current position for your site with the sanctioning authority before finalising a design. All figures are indicative estimates for budgeting, not quotations.

Conclusion: Get the Building Right and the Permission Follows

TG-iPASS did the hard part already. The statutory clock, the deemed-approval provision and the single window have removed most of the discretion that used to make industrial clearance unpredictable in Telangana. What remains within your control is the quality of what you submit — and that is a design problem, not a paperwork problem.

The promoters who clear TG-iPASS industrial building permission quickly are the ones who fixed their setbacks, ground coverage, clear height, exits and parking before the drawing was ever prepared, and who chose a structural system that can absorb a correction without a redesign. That is the practical case for a pre-engineered building on a Telangana industrial plot: the norms are dimensional, and in a PEB the dimensions are yours to set.

If you have a plot and a plan, the next step costs you nothing. Send us the location, plot area and the covered area you are targeting, and our engineers will come back within 24 hours with the norms that apply to your site, basic drawings you can take to your consultant, and an indicative estimate to budget against.

Talk to Kishore Infratech Private Limited — ISO 9001:2015 certified PEB manufacturer, Hyderabad. Call 9440407852 or visit kishoreindustries.in for your free norms check, basic drawings and indicative estimate.