Online building plan sanctions for 27 urban bodies: Government

NEW DELHI: Twenty-seven urban bodies including municipal corporations and urban development authorities have put in place online building plan sanctions that will help in reducing the time taken for according necessary approvals, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Maharashtra leads the list with seven of its urban bodies going online followed by Kerala with five, Minister of State for Urban Development Babul Supriyo said in a written reply.

Municipal Corporations who have done so include those of Greater Mumbai, New Delhi Municipal Council and Municipal Corporation of South Delhi, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Coimbatore, Indore, Nagpur, Solapur, Amravati, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Ujjain, Gwalior, Ulhasnagar, Hubil-Dharwad and Lavasa.

The Development Authorities to have done so are New Town Kolkata Development Authority, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, Haryana Urban Development Authority, Bhubaneswar Development Authority, Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority and Jaipur Development Authority.

Supriyo further said that the Ministry of Urban Development has advised the state governments to streamline the building sanction procedures so as to accord clearances in a month's time.