Visakhapatnam: Vuda vice-chairman Dr N. Yuvaraj on Wednesday introduced an online facility for the uploading of applications for approvals and permissions from the Planning Wing. The process, begun in July, was now being launched fully in vindication of the announcement he had made on June 20 to extend transparent and timely service to the people.

The vice chairman said that applications for building permissions, layout approvals and change of land use would henceforth be received only online. People living in areas that come under Vuda’s jurisdiction – spread over about 573 sq km, covering Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari – may submit applications all their applications on website www.vuda.gov.in.

The Planning Wing is in charge of these services in Vuda, besides implementation of Master Plan provisions, and has an interface with the people on a daily basis on these matters.
These statutory activities apart, the Planning Wing also deals with Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) applications.

Applications were being received manually until now, the process of scrutiny and interpretation by officials at various levels being a time consuming one.

People remained in the dark about the status of their applications as it was gradually routed to the chief urban planner and finally the vice-chairman.  Now, the status can be known easily.