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Big update for every Business owner, architect and builder in Rajasthan: on 16 June 2026, the State Government issued fresh “Provisions Relating to Fire Prevention, Life Safety and Fire Protection Measures for All Types of Buildings” — replacing the fire norms that used to run off the National Building Code.
This isn’t a minor tweak. It’s a complete, self-contained 78-page rulebook covering everything from building classification to EV charging points to rooftop restaurants — and it applies to every urban local body in the state, from Jaipur’s Nagar Nigam to the smallest Nagar Palika.
Over the next month, I’ll be breaking this document down section by section — so you know exactly what changed and whether your building is affected. Follow along.
The most common question we get at Securrise: “Do I actually need a Fire NOC?”
Under the new 2026 provisions, every building in Rajasthan is classified into one of 9 occupancy groups:
A – Residential/Tourism
B – Educational
C – Institutional (hospitals, old-age homes)
D – Assembly (halls, malls, cinemas)
E – Business
F – Mercantile (shops, markets)
G – Industrial
H – Storage
J – Hazardous
Each group has its own height/area threshold — some need a Fire NOC only above 9m or 500 sq.m, others (IT parks, industrial units, hazardous storage) need one regardless of size.
Over the next few days, I’ll walk through each group so you can quickly check where your property stands.
If you own or manage residential or tourism property in Rajasthan, here’s what the new rules mean for you:
Notice how low these thresholds are — a lot of small guest houses and PG accommodations that assumed they were “too small” for fire compliance are actually well within scope.
If you run a hotel, PG or apartment complex in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Pali or Bikaner and aren’t sure where you stand, send us a message — we’ll tell you in five minutes.
With Rajasthan’s coaching-centre boom (Kota and beyond), this clause deserves attention.
Under Group B of the new fire provisions:
Educational buildings involve large numbers of children and young adults in a single space, which is exactly why life-safety and evacuation provisions are non-negotiable here.
If you run a school or coaching institute, this is a good week to get a fire safety audit done before renewal season.
Group C — Institutional buildings — covers hospitals, nursing homes, old-age homes, orphanages and correctional facilities. These are occupied by people who often cannot evacuate on their own, which is why the rules are the tightest here.
Interestingly, the new rules also tie Fire NOC validity for hospitals directly to building height and area — taller, larger hospital buildings need renewal every 2 years instead of 5. We’ll cover the full validity table later this month.
If you manage a healthcare or care facility, this is worth a proactive check now, not after an inspection notice.
Assembly buildings (Group D) are where large crowds gather — and where a fire safety lapse has the highest human cost. This group covers:
A useful clarification in the new rules: if your building already has a Fire NOC (say, as a hotel) and also runs a rooftop restaurant, you do NOT need a separate NOC — the building is assessed for both activities together.
If you’re planning a wedding venue or banquet hall this season, get fire compliance sorted before bookings start pouring in.
Running an office, shop or showroom in Rajasthan? Here’s where you stand under the 2026 provisions:
Group E (Business): Offices, banks, professional establishments (architects, doctors, lawyers) — Fire NOC mandatory above 9m or 500 sq.m of floor space.
But some sub-categories have NO minimum threshold at all — IT parks, data centres, call centres, telephone exchanges and broadcasting/TV stations need a Fire NOC regardless of size, because of the concentrated electrical and equipment risk.
Group F (Mercantile): Shops and markets under 500 sq.m fall under general norms; anything above 500 sq.m or any underground shopping centre needs full compliance — no exceptions.
If you run a call centre, IT office or retail outlet, don’t assume “we’re too small” — check the sub-category first.
Here’s a clause every factory owner in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Pali or Bikaner needs to know: under Group G (Industrial), Fire NOC is mandatory for ALL industrial buildings — low hazard, moderate hazard or high hazard — regardless of size.
There’s no “we’re a small unit” exemption here. Whether it’s an assembly plant, a dyeing unit, a dairy or a power plant, the building must be classified by hazard level (G-1/G-2/G-3), and that classification also decides how often your NOC needs renewal — high-hazard units renew every 2 years, low-hazard every 5.
If you’re setting up a new industrial unit or renewing an existing licence, get the hazard classification right first — it affects your entire compliance timeline.
Group H (Storage) covers warehouses, cold storages, godowns and transit sheds — generally lower-occupancy but high fire-load spaces.
Group J (Hazardous) is where the rules get serious: any facility storing or handling combustible/explosive materials, corrosive chemicals, LPG, compressed gases above 0.1 N/mm² pressure or 70 m³ quantity — needs a Fire NOC regardless of size, with no exceptions.
If your business involves chemical storage, gas handling, or manufacturing of flammable materials, this is not a category to delay compliance on. Beyond the legal penalty, the safety stakes for your workforce are real.
We help businesses across Jaipur and Jodhpur navigate exactly this classification — message us if you’re unsure which category your storage facility falls into.
A lot of buildings in Rajasthan don’t fit neatly into one category — think a building with a showroom on the ground floor, offices above, and a restaurant on top.
The new provisions are clear on this: in mixed-occupancy buildings, the ENTIRE building is governed by the most restrictive applicable provision. Each occupancy must still meet its own life-safety norms, and different-use zones must be separated by a minimum 240-minute fire-resistance rating (horizontally and/or vertically).
Importantly, if all activities were declared at the Building Plan Approval stage, you don’t need multiple separate Fire NOCs — one composite NOC covers the whole building.
Mixed-use is one of the most misunderstood areas of fire compliance — worth a proper audit if this describes your property.
Fire prevention” in the new Rajasthan rules isn’t about extinguishers — it’s about how a building is designed and built in the first place.
It covers:
The goal is passive protection — features built into the structure so that even before any fire-fighting equipment activates, the building itself is slowing the fire down and giving people time to get out.
This is why fire compliance should ideally start at the design stage, not after construction is complete.
Fire protection equipment matters — but life safety provisions are what actually get people out alive.
Under the new rules, life safety covers:
A sprinkler system that works perfectly is still not enough if the staircase is too narrow or the exit is blocked by stored inventory — which is one of the most common violations we find during inspections.
If you’ve never actually walked your building’s evacuation route with a stopwatch, this week is a good time to try it.
This is the part most owners think of first when they hear “Fire NOC” — the active equipment. Under the new provisions, depending on your building’s classification, this can include:
Which of these apply to you depends entirely on your building’s group, height and area — a small office and a shopping mall are not on the same checklist.
Getting this wrong is one of the most common reasons Fire NOC applications get sent back for revision.
Rajasthan’s skyline is changing — and the new fire provisions specifically address high-rise buildings with additional requirements beyond the standard norms covered for their occupancy group.
The document dedicates a full section to high-rise-specific requirements, on top of everything else that applies based on the building’s use (residential, business, assembly, etc.).
If you’re developing or managing a high-rise in Jaipur or any other city in Rajasthan, treat this as its own compliance track — don’t assume that meeting your occupancy group’s baseline requirements is enough. Height brings its own rules.
We’re covering fire drills and evacuation for high-rises next — stay tuned.
One of the more actionable sections of the new Rajasthan provisions is the dedicated guideline for fire drills and evacuation procedures in high-rise buildings.
This isn’t a one-time installation requirement — it’s an ongoing operational responsibility. Having the right equipment installed means nothing if the occupants, staff and security personnel don’t know how to use it or where to go when an alarm sounds.
For building managers and RWAs (Resident Welfare Associations) running high-rises, this is a good reminder to schedule regular drills — not just to tick a compliance box, but because in a real emergency, muscle memory is what saves time.
If your building hasn’t run a fire drill in the last year, that’s your action item this week.
Beyond the standard high-rise section, the new rules carve out a separate category of “Special Provisions for Tall Buildings” — recognising that as buildings get taller, the physics of firefighting, evacuation time and smoke movement change significantly.
For developers planning tall towers — commercial or residential — in Jaipur or other growing Rajasthan cities, this means fire safety planning needs to happen at the architectural drawing stage, in coordination with a fire safety expert, not retrofitted after construction.
The cost of designing for compliance upfront is always lower than the cost of retrofitting a completed tall building.
Open atriums are increasingly popular in malls, hotels and office complexes in Rajasthan — they look impressive, but architecturally they’re also a fast pathway for smoke and fire to travel between floors if not designed correctly.
That’s exactly why the new provisions include a dedicated Atrium Requirements section. If your building design includes an atrium, expect additional scrutiny on smoke control, compartmentation and fire-rated separation between the atrium and surrounding floors.
If you’re designing or already operating a building with an atrium, it’s worth a specific fire safety review — general building compliance checklists often miss atrium-specific requirements.
Car parking areas — especially basement parking — are one of the most overlooked fire risk zones in commercial and residential buildings. Vehicle fires spread fast, and basements trap smoke.
The new Rajasthan provisions include a dedicated Special Specification for car parking facilities, covering the fire protection measures required specifically for parking structures.
And remember from our earlier post: any non-residential underground structure/basement of 500 sq.m or more requires its own Fire NOC application — parking basements included.
If your commercial complex has basement parking, don’t treat it as an afterthought in your fire safety plan.
Restaurants, hotels, cloud kitchens, banquet halls — anywhere with a commercial kitchen — face a specific and often underestimated fire risk from cooking equipment, LPG lines and grease build-up.
The new provisions include a dedicated Special Specification for commercial kitchens, separate from the general building requirements. This typically means specific ventilation, hood/duct fire suppression, and gas-line safety measures on top of standard building fire protection.
If you operate a restaurant or run a food business with a commercial kitchen in Rajasthan, this section deserves its own checklist — it’s easy to comply with general building norms and still fall short on kitchen-specific requirements.
With rooftop solar adoption rising fast across Rajasthan, the new fire provisions have caught up — including a dedicated section on Fire Provision in buildings with solar panel installations.
Solar installations introduce their own fire considerations: electrical isolation points for firefighters, safe access/egress on the roof, and preventing solar wiring from compromising existing fire compartmentation.
If you’ve installed or are planning rooftop solar on a commercial or residential building, factor this into your Fire NOC application and renewal — it’s now an explicit part of the compliance picture, not a grey area.
As EV adoption grows across Rajasthan, the new provisions specifically address fire safety at EV charging points — and lithium-ion battery fires behave very differently from conventional fires.
Key requirements include:
If you’re setting up an EV charging station — public or in-house fleet — this is a compliance area that’s easy to miss because it’s brand new. Get it right from day one.
Rooftop dining is booming in Jaipur and across Rajasthan’s hospitality scene — here’s the specific fire compliance rule for it.
Per the 2020 government notification (referenced and retained in the new 2026 provisions): if you’ve already applied for a Fire NOC for your main building — say, as a hotel or business establishment — and it happens to have a rooftop restaurant, you do NOT need a separate NOC for the restaurant. The building is examined for both activities together as one composite application.
This is a useful clarification for hotel and building owners who assumed rooftop dining needed its own separate certification process.
Confused about the process? Here’s how it works under the new rules:
One useful safeguard: if your complete fee is paid and the authority doesn’t dispose of your application within 30 days, it’s treated as deemed approval.
We manage this entire process end-to-end for our clients — from documentation to inspection coordination
The new rules spell out escalating consequences for non-compliance under Section 291 of the Rajasthan Municipal Act, 2009:
And it’s not just financial — if a fire incident occurs after NOC issuance and equipment is found non-functional, the inspecting agency’s licence can be cancelled, the Fire NOC itself can be revoked, and in case of loss of life, an FIR can be filed against both the agency and the building owner.
Compliance isn’t just about avoiding a fine — it’s about avoiding liability in the worst-case scenario.
Here’s a clause that architects and developers in Rajasthan should read carefully: under the new provisions, ensuring new buildings comply with fire norms is explicitly the responsibility of the Architect/Expert registered with the Council of Architecture.
If a building is found built against fire norms, the concerned architect can be blacklisted. Every drawing submitted for approval must be sealed and signed by a registered architect — this isn’t a formality anymore, it’s an accountability trail.
For developers: choosing an architect (and a fire safety consultant) who takes this seriously isn’t just good practice — it directly protects your project timeline and your professional relationships.
