The Times of India 02.03.2013
Building plan approval to go online in 3 months
NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation
(NMC) is planning to introduce an online approval system for building
plans. The system is expected to become operational within the next
three months.
Building plans are approved by the town planning
department. As per NMC norms, it should take 60 days to approve a plan,
but the process usually takes much longer. Also, several clarifications
are to be carried out before a proposal is cleared.
A senior
NMC official said, “The objective of making the procedure online is to
bring in more transparency. We have already designed a software for
this. After the software is tested, the system will become operational.”
The civic body will explain the software to architects, he added.
The official said the software is programmed in such a way that it will
accept a proposal only if all the necessary documents are submitted.
The builder or architect will have to submit hard copies of documents
required for approval of a building plan after a proposal is submitted
online.
The system will help officials see all the building
plan proposals at a time along with their status. The plan will be
approved on first-come-first-served basis.
Welcoming the step, president of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India,
Kiran Chavan, said, “The online system will benefit builders as it will
reduce the time taken to sanction building plans. Queries can be
cleared online by the builder and the architect in the office, which
will reduce trips to the NMC.”
Executive engineer of the NMC’s
town planning department S V Ghuge said, that the process for online
approval was underway and that it would be in place soon. “On an
average, we get around 1,200-1,500 building plans for approval every
year. The online process will simplify and speed up work.”
