Telangana Lift Act: What Hyderabad Lift Companies Record

Published October 19, 2026 · Last updated October 19, 2026 · 8 min read

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Telangana Has No Lift Act. What Hyderabad Lift Companies Should Record Anyway

By Mr. Sumeet Katariya, ElevatorPlus ·

In short: Telangana has no lift Act in force. There is no government lift inspection and no statutory per-lift log book. A draft Telangana Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks Bill exists, but a Bill is not law. Until an Act is passed and in force, a Hyderabad lift company's only record rule is its own AMC contract. Write that contract with care, record every visit against it, and keep the records long enough to be read years later.

Key takeaways

There is no Telangana lift Act in force. No Act means no state licence regime, no government inspection and no per-lift log book duty.
A draft Bill is not an Act. News reports say the Chief Minister approved a draft Bill on 25 June 2026 and that it was under Law Department review in August 2026.
Your AMC contract is the record rule. Whatever the contract says you will record, you must be able to produce.
Courts read contracts. In the 2026 Supreme Court judgment, the contractor's own contract had required records it could not produce, and the court noted their absence.
Records outlive the people who wrote them. The accident in that case happened in 2003 and the judgment came in 2026. That is 23 years.

What this guide covers: Is there a Telangana lift Act? · What the draft Bill is and is not · Why the AMC contract carries the weight · What to write into the contract · What to record at every visit · The 2026 judgment and records · FAQs

Is there a Telangana lift Act in 2026?

No. Telangana has no lift Act in force. We checked this again in early October 2026 and found no Act passed by the Assembly or notified by the government.

That puts Telangana in a small group. Most states we have read have some form of lift law, but they disagree on almost everything that matters day to day. Our state-by-state read is in Lift Rules by State in India: What 15 States Actually Require (2026).

Here is how Telangana compares with three neighbours and Delhi on the three points that change your paperwork.

State	What governs lifts today	Government inspection	Per-lift log book duty
Telangana	No lift Act	None	None
Andhra Pradesh	Lifts and Escalators Act 2025, Rules notified March 2025	At licensing and at five-year renewal	Yes
Karnataka	Lifts, Escalators and Passenger Conveyors Act 2012, Rules 2015	Yearly	Yes
Maharashtra	Maharashtra Lifts Act 1939, Bombay Lift Rules 1958	At least every 6 months	Yes
Delhi	Bombay Lifts Act 1939 as extended, Delhi Lifts Rules 1942, amended 2017	At least every 6 months	No

If you run branches across the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh border, your record duties change at the state line. A Hyderabad team and a Vijayawada team doing the same AMC visit are not under the same law.

What about the draft Telangana lift Bill?

A draft exists. It is a Bill, not an Act.

Siasat reported on 22 July 2026 that the Chief Minister approved the draft Telangana Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks Bill on 25 June 2026. RegNews reported on 24 August 2026 that the draft was under Law Department review. It was then expected to go to the State Cabinet and the Legislative Assembly.

A Bill has to pass the Assembly, receive assent and then be brought into force. Each of those is a separate step. Other states show why the last step matters. Bihar and Jharkhand both enacted lift Acts that were never brought into force. Maharashtra passed a 2017 Act that has never commenced, so the 1939 Act still governs. Enacted is not in force.

So do not plan your records around clauses in a draft. Plan them around the contract you signed last month.

Why the AMC contract carries all the weight ?

With no Act, nothing outside the contract tells you what to record. That cuts both ways.

There is no inspector asking for a log book. There is also no statutory minimum you can point to when a building secretary says your technician never came. When a dispute starts, the questions are simple. What did the contract promise? What can you show?

In Telangana, Bihar and Jharkhand, the only record obligation on a lift company is the one in its own maintenance contract. A short-form AMC names the lift, the fee and the visit frequency, and little else. That is thin cover for a business that may need to show its work years later.

Our guide The Clauses That Decide Whether a Lift AMC Makes Money covers the commercial clauses. This section is about the record clauses.

What should a Telangana AMC contract say about records?

Write the record duties down, in plain words, for both sides. If the contract says you will keep a record, keep it. If you cannot keep it, do not promise it.

Clause	What to write	Why it matters
Lift identification	Building, lift number, make, capacity, floors served	Every record later hangs off this ID
Visit frequency	Monthly, or the agreed interval, with a date window	Lets you prove you met the promise
What a visit covers	A named checklist for each visit type	Stops "you only oiled the doors" arguments
Breakdown response	Target time to attend a breakdown, and how a call is logged	The time stamp is your evidence
Who signs	Customer representative signs or confirms each visit	A one-sided record is weaker
Parts	Which parts are covered, which are billed, how approval is given	Separates AMC scope from chargeable work
Customer duties	Report faults, give access, do not let untrained people operate the lift	Puts the building side's duties on paper
Record access	Customer can request visit records for any lift, any period	Shows you have nothing to hide
Record retention	How long you keep records after the contract ends	Records may be needed long after the AMC lapses
Handover	What records go to the next contractor if the AMC ends	Avoids a gap in the lift's history

None of this is a legal requirement in Telangana today. It is the set of promises that lets you prove what you did.

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What to record at every visit ?

A contract clause is only as good as the record behind it. These are the fields we see well-run companies capture on every visit, whatever the state.

Field	Preventive visit	Breakdown visit
Lift ID and site	Yes	Yes
Technician name	Yes	Yes
Arrival and departure time	Yes	Yes
Time the call was logged	Not applicable	Yes
Checklist items done, item by item	Yes	Where relevant
Fault found and cause	If any	Yes
Parts fitted, with quantity	Yes	Yes
Parts recommended but not approved	Yes	Yes
Lift status on leaving	In service or out of service	In service or out of service
Customer sign-off or confirmation	Yes	Yes
Photo of the work, where useful	Optional	Optional

Two fields get skipped most often. The first is "recommended but not approved". When a building refuses a part and the lift later fails, that line is the record that you advised it. The second is "status on leaving". A lift left out of service needs that written down, with the time.

In ElevatorPlus, each company builds its own visit checklists, fully configurable, and the technician fills them in on the mobile app at the site. Breakdowns are logged and assigned through breakdown management, so the call time and the attend time sit on the same record. The app runs in 18 languages, including Telugu, which matters when your technicians write in the language they think in.

What did the 2026 judgment say about records?

On 29 July 2026 the Supreme Court of India decided a case about a lift death in 2003. It held that a lift is to be treated as a common carrier, because a passenger steps into a machine over which they have no control. It held that a party that undertakes the comprehensive maintenance of such a machine owes its users a heightened duty of care.

On records, the court noted that the contractor "produced no attendance register, duty chart, log book, or other contemporaneous record". Its own contract had required those records. The court said their absence "does not assist its case". The court upheld compensation of Rs 3,01,48,195 to a family, with interest running from 2003.

The case did not turn on a state Act. It turned on what the contract required and what the contractor could produce. That is exactly the position every Telangana lift company is in today.

One more point, and this is our arithmetic, not the court's. The accident was in 2003 and the judgment in 2026. A record your technician writes this month could be read in 2049. Paper registers in a site cabin do not last that long. Our longer read on what to keep is Elevator Maintenance Records in India: What You Must Keep.

What does moving off paper look like for a Hyderabad lift company?

Oscan Elevators is a Hyderabad lift company that moved from running everything by hand to an automated system. Service complaints used to come in over phone calls. AMC tracking lived in spreadsheets. Their CEO, Mr. Shyam Kishan Varma, said in February 2026: "Initially we used to do all the things manually. Now it is completely automated. It saves us a lot of time." More stories like it are on ElevatorPlus customer testimonials.

The practical test is simple. Pick one lift. Ask for every visit, every breakdown and every part fitted in the last 12 months. Time how long it takes. If the answer involves a phone call to a technician, a WhatsApp search and a drawer, you have records, but you do not have a record.

Frequently asked questions

1. Is there a lift Act in Telangana?

No. Telangana has no lift Act in force. A draft Telangana Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks Bill exists, but a Bill has no legal force until it is passed and brought into force.

2. Does the Telangana government inspect lifts?

No. With no lift Act in force, there is no government lift inspection regime in Telangana.

3. Do Telangana lift companies have to keep a log book?

There is no statutory per-lift log book duty in Telangana. The only record obligation is the one in the company's own AMC contract.

4. When will the Telangana lift Bill become law?

No date has been announced. News reports in July and August 2026 said the draft had Chief Minister approval and was under Law Department review. The Cabinet and the Assembly were still to come.

5. What should a Telangana AMC contract say about records?

It should name each lift, the visit frequency, what each visit covers, how breakdowns are logged, who signs each visit, which parts are covered, and how long records are kept after the contract ends.

6. Why do records matter if no law requires them?

Because a court reads your contract. In the 2026 Supreme Court judgment, the contractor's own contract required records it could not produce, and the court said their absence did not assist its case.

7. How long should a lift company keep maintenance records?

No Telangana law sets a period. The 2026 case shows records can be needed 23 years after the event, so keep them in a form that lasts.

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With no lift Act, Telangana sets no lift licence, no lift inspection and no log book duty. That is also the risk.

When nothing outside the contract sets the record rule, your contract is the whole rule. A two-page AMC with no record clauses leaves you with nothing to show when it matters.

A Bill will probably become an Act at some point. Do not wait for it. The companies that already record every visit, every breakdown and every refused part will not need to change much when it arrives.

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