Some Basic Definitions from KMBR 2019

Most of these definitions are asked in PSC AE-Overseer exams

  1. Barsati A habitable space on the roof of building with or without toilet facilities
  2. Double frontage plot means plot having a frontage on the two streets other than a corner plot
  3. Cul-de-sac means a street with dead end having adequate maneuvering space facility for vehicles.
  4. Ceiling means the internal roof/lining of any room; in case there is no such lining, the roof membrane shall constitute the ceiling
  5. Frontage means side or part of a side of a plot which abuts a street
  6. Front yard means an open space extending laterally along the front side (main entrance side of ground floor) of a building and forming part of the plot
  7. Floor space index (F.S.I.) means the quotient obtained by dividing the total built up area by the area of the plot. (This word is synonymous with FARF.S.I. = Total built-up area /Plot area
  8. Habitable room means a room occupied or designed for occupancy by one or more persons for study, prayer, living, sleeping, eating, kitchen if it is used as dining room, but not including bathrooms, water-closet compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries, corridors, attics and spaces that are not used frequently or during extended periods 
  9. Interior plot means a plot, access to which is by a passage from a street whether such passage forms part of the plot or not
  10. Loft means a residual space in a pitched roof, or any similar residual space, above normal floor level without any direct staircase leading to it which may be constructed or adopted for storage purposes
  11. Height of building’ means the vertical distance measured from the average proposed ground level contiguous to the building
  • in the case of flat roofs, to the highest point of the flat roof
  •  in the case of pitched roofs and gabled roofs, to the midpoint between the eves level and the ridge
  • in the case of domed roofs, to the highest point of the dome

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