laying emphasis upon improving the ranking given by the World Bank, Secretary, Ministry of Urban and Housing Affairs (MoUHA), DS Mishra, on Wednesday held detailed deliberations with all the three municipal commissioners of Delhi.
Mishra said all out effort should be made to get the best in the ranking. Stressing that to excel in the ease of doing business (EODB) in respect to sanctioning of construction permits by the local bodies in the country; it becomes duty of all the stakeholders to seriously involve all so that benefits percolate down to the permit seekers.
He said there is still a scope to improve ranking by making the architects, engineers and beneficiaries more capable to reflect the efficacy of the online system coupled with common application form before the visiting team of Word Bank reassesses the ranking somewhere in May next.
Mishra further stated that EODB is being promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he has been personally monitoring the process.
Present among the officials were commissioners of municipal corporation namely Dr Puneet Kumar Goel (south corporation), Ranbir Singh (east MCD) and Madhup Vyas (north corporation), additional secretary Manoj Kumar and Joint Secretary SD Meena and other senior officers of the integrated agencies for the purpose of NOC, large number of architects, engineers including departmental engineers and other stakeholders were present in the workshop.
The Commissioner of South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) took questions from architects and gave them suitable tips to make the system more user friendly. Goel stated that SDMC has been sanctioning construction permits in single day i.e, within 24 hours.
"1130 sanctions have been issued on line within 24 hours of filing on line application. Our efficiency reflects from the fact that recently introduced process of star rating by architects has made it crystal clear that out of 3491 cases in 2276 cases Star Rating was given.
The numbers of forms reduced last year from 39 to 14 have been further reduced to just seven, Commissioner said. Goel stated that SDMC is committed to work with transparency and honesty to achieve a better ranking for the country.