The Punjab Government rolled out flagship ‘e-naksha online building plan approval system’ (OBPAS) — a one-stop place for all the architects or citizens to submit drawings or documents for the building plan approval and would cater to the 165 UlBs as well as the 27 Improvement Trusts.

The state local Government Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, while addressing the architects as well as the Commissioners of State’s all Municipal Corporations after rolling out the scheme, said: “We are a welfare state elected for being accountable to the people.

The emphasis on the aspect of e-Governance is being laid with a view to modernise the infrastructure in all the Urban local Bodies (UlBs) of the State.”

Saying that OBPAS would be a purely online platform, Sidhu said that he is giving the timeframe of one and a half months to sort out the technicalities with regard to the project after which no building plan would be allowed to be submitted manually.

Terming it as the revolutionary project, the Minister said that there would be a five-step process with regard to the OBPAS.

listing out the benefits, he said that with its operationalization, the common people would not have to make endless rounds of the Government offices to get their maps or drawings approved thus saving their precious time and energy. The common people and the architects would need to log on to www.enaksha.lgpunjab.gov.in, he said.

Sidhu said that the next focus area would be the starting of e-ClU system. “The previous regime had delegated the powers regarding ClUs to the committees and the corporations which had resulted in gross neglect of transparency factor. But the present regime, with firm commitment to the accountability aspect, would make these citizen-friendly services available to the people at the mere click while sitting at their homes,” he said.