UDCPR 2020 / Chapter 9, Requirements of part of building

Table 9-E Occupant Load (9.28.5)

UDCPR 2020 as amended to 30.01.2025

Table No.9-E below :-
                                                     Table No.9-E
       Sr.                                                                         Occupant Load Floor Area
                                 Group of Occupancy
       No.                                                                            in sq.m. per person
        (1)                                   (2)                                             (3)
         1       Residential                                                                 12.5
         2       Educational                                                                 4.0
         3       Institutional                                                          15 (See Note i)
         4       Assembly
                 a) With fixed or loose seat and dance                                 0.6 (See Note ii)
                 floors
                 b) Without seating facilities including                               1.5 (See Note ii)
                 dining rooms
        5)       Mercantile
                 a) Street floor & Sales basement                                             3
                 b) Upper sale floors                                                         6
        6)       Business and industrial                                                      10
        7)       Storage                                                                      30
        8)       Hazardous                                                                    10

(1)
      Inserted Vide Corrigendum / Addendum No.CR.79/2021, dt.02nd December, 2021

Note :
i) Occupant load in dormitory portions of homes for the aged, orphanages, insane, asylums etc.
   where sleeping accommodation provided, shall be calculated at not less than 7.5 Sq.m. gross
   floor area per person.
ii) The gross floor area shall include, in addition to the main assembly rooms or space, any
    occupied connecting room or space in the same storey or in the storeys above or below
    where entrance is common to such rooms and spaces and they are available for use by the
    occupants of the assembly place. No deductions shall be made in the area for corridors,
    closets or other subdivisions, that area shall include all space serving the particular assembly
    occupancy.

To see how Table 9-E and the rest of UDCPR apply to a particular plot, with the clause behind every figure, open Citiwise.

The text of the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations for Maharashtra State, as amended to 30.01.2025. The notification of the Urban Development Department, Government of Maharashtra, is the authoritative text.