Hyderabad, July 31: The officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will clear BPS applications everyday.

With the election process being halted, most of the officials who were drafted for pre-poll work will be shifted to the BPS clearance cell. The GHMC has cleared 12,000 applications till date since the regularisation process began on June 23.

“Most of our officials and employees were busy with pre-poll process. We want to clear as many applications as possible from Monday. All applicants who have submitted structural stability certificates, paid the second and final instalment of penalisation charges and submitted all the required documents, can take the regularisation certificates,” said the GHMC chief city planner, Mr Purushothama Reddy.

Several property owners from surrounding 12 municipalities have complained that BPS clearance at their respective municipal offices is moving at snail’s pace.

“The officials are not able to trace the files despite the BPS registration number being given to them by us. Several applicants are being told to come after a day or two. We can’t keep running around the municipal offices. The officials should keep the files ready and then send notices to the applicants,” said Mr A. Ravinder Raju, the president of Shantinagar Colony Welfare Association at Kapra Municipality.

Over 2 lakh applications have been submitted under BPS, a majority of them pertaining to individual residential buildings and flats.

GHMC has also decided to convene a meeting with the owners of penthouses, flats and apartment welfare associations to decide on fire safety norms to be adopted