Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal on Tuesday approved 'online module' to sanction building plan for up to 500 sqm for low-risk residential buildings under 'Unified Building Bye Laws 2021'. With the move, the residents of the national Capital are no longer needed to visit offices of the civic agencies to submit their applications for building plan. The building plan is in the form of digitally signed letter which can be downloaded by the applicant or the architect through online mode also.
Further, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed between IIIT-Delhi and Municipal Corporations to identify right technology solutions in improving citizen service delivery, providing research based inputs for adoption of the modern technology, simplifying the existing processes, minimising human interface by automating the frontend and backend processes and identifying and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions in municipal functions to improve services delivery to the citizens. The L-G advised the municipal corporations to strive for modernising their operation using technology for different municipal functions like waste disposal, parking management, property tax collection, town planning, etc.
Baijal said that by reinventing and modernising their systems using latest technology, corporations would be able to provide better civic services to the citizens of Delhi. At the same time students or faculty of IIIT-Delhi will get to solve problems of citizens by working out technical solutions. This will be a perfect example of symbiotic relationship, he added. He advised the corporations to minimise human interface by automating processes wherever possible to deliver citizen centric services in line with Prime Minister's clarion call to promote digital delivery of services — 'Maximum Government, Minimum Governance'.
The construction permits can be applied on line by using 'Common Application' form and no personal interaction with the MCD offices and officers concerned will be required in any case, a senior SDMC official said.
"The SDMC has developed a dash board to provide the latest status of each case in order to make sure that the things are moving in the right direction, hence, there is no scope of any delay. Even all payments can be made on line and calculations can also be done with the help of on line calculator," he added.
The initiative led by SDMC in order to ensure the transparency and more ease to the public for issuance of construction permits by the three Municipal Corporation of Delhi under ease of doing business has further been strengthened and suitably eased. Commissioner of SDMC Gyanesh Bharti, said that at present about 1491 architects are assigned to look after the process. Residents will get their plan sanctioned same day, the official said.
Under this portal the building sanction plan process has been simplified and made completely online with integrated payment gateways for issuance of sanction of building plans, Bharti said, adding that this process does not require any physical interface of MCD and the registered Architects will be able to generate their sanction automatically through the system by completing the requisite formalities online and digitally signing the sanction letters.
The official further informed that in this system, all the inputs submitted by the registered architect will be checked automatically by the software based Rule engine of the system, which has been made in line with the building bye-laws, Master Plan 2021 and relevant Acts. Earlier the permitted limit for building sanction plan on self certification was 105 sqm which now has been extended up to 500 sqm.