CPWD Plinth Area Rates 2025

Building cost by area, from the CPWD book.

Pick the kind of building and its area. You get the cost the way CPWD's Plinth Area Rates 2025 works it out, line by line, each line with the item number it comes from. The book's own rate tables are below.

What these rates are. CPWD's rates for government buildings in Delhi, as on 01.04.2025. They already include the contractor's profit and overheads, GST and labour welfare cess. They are a first budget figure for a project, not a quotation, and other cities need a cost index that this book does not give.

Your building

Kind of building

Structure

RCC framed Composite (load bearing + RCC)

Total plinth area of the floors (not the basement, not the stilt)

Plinth area is the covered area of each floor, measured at floor level, walls included.

Storeys (floors, above the stilt if there is one)

Foundation

Floors are taken as equal in area. A raft or piles are charged on the ground floor, taken as the area divided by the storeys.

Basement area (if any)

Stilt area (if any)

Fire fighting

Fire alarm

Services (a percentage of the building cost)

Site developmentThe book allows this percentage only when the lengths and areas of roads, sewers, water lines and drains (items 6.1 to 6.7) cannot be worked out.

Only if the client wants them

Cost by CPWD plinth area rates

Enter the plinth area to see the cost.

The rate tables, as CPWD prints them

Plinth Area Rates 2025, pages 3 to 11. Rates are in rupees. The item numbers are the book's own, so you can find any line in the book.

Notes from the book (page 11)

Need the rate of one item of work instead, with its recipe? Open the CPWD schedule of rates in CivicMate.