Own land in South Kolkata? Let’s talk about what it could become.

A joint venture means you keep your land and we build on it. You are paid in flats in the finished building rather than a lump sum, and the split is agreed in writing before anything is signed.

Most of what we have built since 1995 started as somebody’s old house on a plot in one of these localities. If you have been approached by developers before and it did not go well, that is a common enough story around here. It is worth one conversation.

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An older Kolkata house with a moulded balcony and shuttered windows on a leafy street. Stand-in photograph.

How it works

It genuinely is a sequence. This is the order it happens in.

First conversationYou tell us where the plot is and roughly what is on it. Nothing is needed in writing. This is usually half an hour.
Title and documentsWe check the deed, the mutation and the tax receipts. If something is unclear we tell you what it is, whether or not we go ahead.
Measurement and feasibilityThe plot is measured, and we work out what can be built on it under the current rules. How many floors, how many flats, how much parking.
Terms and shareWhat you get and what we get, discussed openly, with the numbers behind it shown to you. This is the conversation most owners have been badly served on before.
Development agreementRegistered. Your share, the possession date and the specifications are all in it.
Sanction and approvalsPlans go to the corporation or the municipality. Nothing is demolished until sanction is in hand.
ConstructionTypically [XX] months from the start of work. You can visit whenever you like.
Handover of your shareYou take possession of your flats. The completion certificate and the papers follow.

To confirm before launch: the construction duration in step 7 is written as [XX] months. Replace it with the figure the business actually works to.

What we commit to

Four things, all of them checkable. If a developer will not put these in writing, that tells you something.

The owner's share is defined in writing before anything is signed.Which flats, on which floors, with which parking, named in the agreement rather than described in a conversation. You should be able to point at a drawing and say those ones are mine.

A possession date in the agreement, not an estimate.One date, written into the development agreement, with what happens if we miss it written in beside it.

Nothing is demolished before the plan is sanctioned.Your house stands until the sanctioned plan is in hand. No developer should ask you to clear a plot on the strength of an application.

You can see the site whenever you want, without an appointment.It is your land. Come and look at the reinforcement before the slab is cast. Bring your own engineer if you would rather.

Draft, not yet approved. These four commitments were written as plausible examples of what a joint-venture developer can undertake. They are not yet Ashima Engineering’s commitments. Partha Pratim Roy needs to confirm, amend or replace each one before this page goes live.

Why us

Thirty years, sixty-odd buildings, all of them within a few kilometres of here. We are not a group that turned up in Santoshpur last year because the land got expensive. The office has been on Aurobindo Road the whole time, and the same person has run it since 1995.

Past landowners will speak to you. Ask, and we will put you in touch with people whose buildings went up ten and twenty years ago, so you can hear how it went once the work was finished and everyone had moved in.

See every building since 1995

Steel reinforcement and timber formwork in place on a concrete slab before casting. Stand-in photograph.

What we would need to see

Eventually. Not for a first conversation.

The deedThe registered title document for the plot.
MutationRecords showing the property is mutated into the current owner’s name.
Tax receiptsRecent municipal or corporation tax receipts.
Plot dimensionsA survey plan if you have one. If not, we will measure it.

A first conversation needs none of it

Call and describe the plot. If it is not worth doing we will say so on the phone rather than send somebody to look at it.

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Monday to Saturday, 11am to 8pm. Sundays by appointment.