Punjab government is all set to roll out the Online Building Plan Approval System (OBPAS) on August 15, which would be a purely online platform.
Announcing this, the state local Government Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday said that it would provide a one stop place for building plan approval catering to as many 165 urban local bodies besides 27 Improvement Trusts.
“I don’t fight elections for the sake of fighting next elections but for leaving a transparent and corruption free legacy for the next generation. The emphasis on the aspect of e-Governance is being laid with a view to modernize the infrastructure in all the Urban local Bodies (UlBs) of the state and it is a tool for increasing transparency in the overall functioning of the department,” said Sidhu while addressing the architects and all the Municipal Corporations Commissioners during a workshop regarding the OBPAS.
Terming OBPAS as the revolutionary project with the potential to change both the face and fate of Punjab, Sidhu said that it is a one stop place for all the architects or citizens to submit drawings or documents for the building plan approval.
Sidhu said that there would be a five-step process with regard to the OBPAS.
listing out the benefits of this unique project, he said that with its operationalization, the common people would not have to make the endless rounds of the government offices to get their maps or drawings approved thus saving their precious time and energy.