Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is coming up with an
innovative plan for simplifying the process of issuing building
permissions under town planning section from February 1, GHMC
commissioner Somesh Kumar said. The GHMC is planning to hold building
committee meetings at zonal level to clear the building permissions at
the earliest, he added.

Speaking to reporters after Prajavani
programme here on Monday, the commissioner said that building permission
applications will be received online by providing space to upload the
information and applications will be received on trial basis from
January 20 to 31.

The officials will be trained in this regard and
it will be easier for tracing the application where it is pending more
than prescribed time in Citizen Charter and the concerned officer will
be fined of Rs 50 per day for delaying the file.

The commissioner
further added that it will prevent the repeated visits of applicants for
submission of particular documents and hoped that there will be a very
big difference and enable the applicants question the delay.

He
said that the applicant after submitting the file online will receive a
message from the GHMC that his application has been received and will be
sanctioned in a given time and the citizens can obtain the progress of
the file online as where the file is pending and causes for delay. The
senior officials of MAUD have reviewed the town planning online system,
appreciated the process and also given certain suggestions.

Applicants
or common citizens can use toll free number of GHMC 24/7 call centre
155304 for any grievance related to GHMC. He said that GHMC is trying to
create awareness among the citizens about the GHMC call centre and till
date GHMC is getting 300 odd grievances per day.