Haryana Makes EV Charging Infrastructure Mandatory in New and Renovated Buildings

June 12, 2026

On June 5, 2026, the Haryana Town and Country Planning Department (TCPD) issued a formal notification amending the Haryana Building Code 2017, making EV charging infrastructure mandatory in all new and renovated residential and commercial buildings across the state. The notification, signed by Additional Chief Secretary Anurag Agarwal and circulated to key implementing agencies including HSIIDC, Urban Local Bodies, HSVP, TCPD, and the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, converts the May 2026 draft proposal into enforceable building regulations.

The amendment establishes one of India's most comprehensive state-level EV-ready building mandates and reinforces the state's broader commitment to sustainable infrastructure development. Beyond Haryana, the notification is likely to influence sustainable infrastructure planning, building code amendments, urban planning frameworks, and EV infrastructure requirements across other states as governments seek to align construction standards with the country's accelerating electric mobility transition.

What the Amendment Actually Requires: The Rules in Detail

The Haryana Building Code amendment establishes two distinct tiers of compliance based on building type. For commercial EV charging, covering shopping complexes, malls, hotels, and office spaces with parking for at least 10 cars, the requirement is a minimum of one EV charging spot for every three parking slots. All such projects must also be 100% EV-ready, with conduits pre-installed throughout the parking area to enable future charging point addition without structural intervention.

For residential EV charging, covering group housing societies, cooperative housing projects, and residential complexes managed by Resident Welfare Associations, the requirement is one EV charging spot for every five parking slots, with full EV-ready conduit infrastructure across all parking spaces. The requirement also promotes smart building infrastructure by integrating future-ready electrical systems and charging provisions into building design from the planning stage itself.

Two design provisions are particularly important for developers and architects. First, EV charging stations may be installed in basement and stilt parking areas, subject to compliance with electrical and fire safety norms certified by the Fire Department, resolving the ambiguity that had previously made some developers reluctant to route EV infrastructure underground.

Second, and commercially significant: EV charging infrastructure is explicitly exempt from Floor Area Ratio calculations. The FAR exemption means developers can add conduits, charging equipment, and associated electrical infrastructure without it counting against the project's permissible built-up area. This removes the most common commercial objection to EV infrastructure compliance, that it eats into saleable floor space. The amendment also requires developers to disclose EV charging infrastructure provisions at the time of applying for Occupation Certificates, creating a mandatory transparency mechanism that lenders, buyers, and tenants can verify.

For existing residential buildings, the notification does not leave the retrofitting challenge unaddressed. Existing residential complexes managed by RWAs are covered under the amendment's scope, creating a compliance pathway and expectation for the substantial stock of apartment buildings, plotted housing societies, and managed complexes already operational across Gurugram, Faridabad, Panchkula, and other Haryana cities.

The TCPD has additionally directed the state's Fire and Emergency Services Department to develop comprehensive fire safety guidelines for EV charging infrastructure, in consultation with the electricity department and power utilities, to standardise the safety framework that governs basement and stilt parking installations going forward.

Why This Is a Landmark and Why the Journey to This Point Matters

The June 5 notification follows a transparent and accelerated policy cycle. The TCPD released the draft amendment for public consultation in May, drawing immediate and positive industry responses. The consultation period ran for approximately five weeks before the formal notification was issued on June 5, a policy-to-regulation timeline of 35 days that is notably efficient by Indian regulatory standards.

The speed of the process reflects the degree of cross-sector alignment behind the amendment: EV manufacturers, charge point operators, real estate developers, and consumer advocacy groups had collectively been calling for exactly this kind of building-level EV infrastructure mandate for several years.

The context that makes this amendment structurally consequential, rather than just administratively notable, is India's EV market trajectory.

India sold 1.4 million electric two-wheelers in FY2026, a 22% year-on-year increase. Electric passenger vehicle sales exceeded 100,000 units with 18% growth. Delhi's EV Policy 2026, issued on April 11, bans new petrol two-wheeler registrations from 2028 and ICE three-wheeler fleet additions from January 2026, creating a demand floor for EVs in the NCR region that Haryana directly surrounds.

The PM E-DRIVE scheme has approved INR 503.86 crore for 4,874 public EV charging stations in a single tranche. The Unified Bharat eCharge platform, India's UPI equivalent for EV charging, is under development with BHEL as nodal agency. India's public charging network must grow from approximately 27,737 current stations to 72,300 under PM E-DRIVE targets. Building-level EV charging infrastructure is the complement to this public network: the layer that enables charging at the point of residence and work, which accounts for the majority of EV charging events globally.

The National Pattern: Haryana Is Not Alone

Haryana's June 5 amendment does not stand in isolation. It is the most comprehensive and recently enacted example of a national trend in which Indian states are embedding electric mobility infrastructure into building codes and planning frameworks. Maharashtra issued EV-ready building guidelines in 2022 covering new commercial buildings above a specified floor area.

Delhi's 2026 EV Policy requires all new multi-storey residential and commercial buildings to install EV charging points. Rajasthan's 2024 EV Policy includes provisions for EV-ready parking in commercial developments. Karnataka's smart city programmes have encouraged EV-ready building design in technology park developments around Bengaluru.

What Haryana has done is go further than any state: mandating specific ratios (1 in 3 for commercial, 1 in 5 for residential), requiring 100% EV-ready conduit coverage, granting FAR exemptions to remove developer cost objections, and covering both new construction and renovation of existing buildings, a combined scope that sets a new national benchmark.

The national policy logic is coherent and increasingly well-articulated. Public EV charging stations address range anxiety on highways and in urban commercial areas. Workplace and destination charging addresses the daily commute and errand use cases. Home and residential complex charging addresses overnight charging, the most cost-effective and convenient form of EV energy replenishment for most users.

An EV ecosystem that delivers all three charging layers simultaneously is one in which range anxiety becomes structurally impossible. Haryana's building code amendment is the residential and workplace layer of this three-layer architecture, executing at the level where the mandate is most effective: the building permit and occupancy certificate approval process, where developers have no credible alternative to compliance.

What This Means for Developers, Operators, and EV Investors

For real estate developers, and there are several active in Haryana's fast-growing housing and commercial markets, the amendment creates a clear, known compliance obligation that can be costed and designed into projects from the planning stage. The FAR exemption materially reduces the commercial impact.

Pre-installed conduits are significantly cheaper than retrofitted wiring. The 1-in-3 commercial charging ratio and 1-in-5 residential ratio set a clear density floor, but do not prevent developers from exceeding it in projects where EV-ready infrastructure is a marketing differentiator.

For charge point operators including Bolt.Earth, Statiq, ChargeZone, Ather Grid, and the OMC-led networks now accelerating deployment under PM E-DRIVE, Haryana's amendment creates a guaranteed pipeline of compliant sites. Every new commercial building with 10 or more parking spaces is now a site with active EV charging spots and 100% EV-ready conduit coverage, making commercial activation faster, cheaper, and lower-risk than deploying into unready buildings where electrical upgrades are required before a charger can be installed.

For investors evaluating the EV charging station sector, building-code mandates are the single most reliable demand signal available: they create charging sites not by market demand alone but by legal requirement, making the buildout trajectory predictable and the addressable market definable with precision. India's electric mobility infrastructure story in 2026 is being written not just at the charging station level but at the building permit level, and Haryana's June 5 amendment is its most current and comprehensive chapter.

Haryana has made EV-ready infrastructure a building condition, not a consumer choice. The state that surrounds Delhi has set the benchmark that every Indian city should now match.