UP Development Charges Exemption Scheme

Under the Uttar Pradesh Warehousing and Logistics Policy 2022, the Exemption in Development Charges scheme offers a 75% waiver on development charges. The policy sets out to establish Uttar Pradesh as a logistics and warehousing centre, with the goals of economic growth and job creation.

By lowering the upfront expenditure borne by developers, the waiver is intended to draw private capital into building modern logistics parks throughout the state. Reduced initial costs make projects more viable financially and support the creation of warehousing and logistics infrastructure.

The scheme forms part of the state's wider effort to strengthen industrial infrastructure and ease of doing business, and to make Uttar Pradesh an attractive location for logistics and manufacturing enterprises.

- **Submission of a comprehensive project proposal:** Under the New UP Warehousing & Logistics Policy 2022, developers are required to draw up and file a detailed project proposal for their Logistics Park, setting out its scope, location, investment and operational plan. - **Formal application for incentives:** A formal application seeking incentives — among them the 75% development charge exemption — must be filed together with the project proposal before the nodal agency nominated by the Government of Uttar Pradesh to implement the policy. - **Scrutiny and verification:** The application and proposal so filed are subject to detailed scrutiny and verification by the concerned state departments and committees, to confirm that all policy guidelines and criteria have been met. - **Approval and sanction:** Once verification and approval are completed, the exemption is sanctioned and the developer is formally informed of the benefits approved, which allows the project to move ahead with a reduced development charge liability.

Applications are reviewed under the approval mechanism established for the New UP Warehousing & Logistics Policy 2022. A committee with members drawn from the concerned government departments — Industrial Development, Infrastructure and Logistics, among others — carries out the evaluation.

The committee weighs the project's viability, how far it meets the policy's objectives, and the effect it is likely to have on the state's logistics ecosystem. Approval rests on whether the project fits the policy guidelines and whether it advances the state's strategic goals.