Online building plan approval in municipal bodies soon: Sidhu

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab local government department has decided to implement online building plan approval system in all municipal bodies in the state.

Announcing this, Punjab local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said the proposed building plan management system will automate the end-to end process from empanelment of architect, online documents submission, online fee payment, architect registration, building plan approval and plinth-level approval to completion/occupation certificate across all urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state.

Sidhu said the software would be provided to the town planning wing of the local government department to ensure that a building promoter does not have to visit any of the offices.

“Submission of building plans in hard copy version is to be entirely done away with. The endeavour is to enhance the citizen-centric services through responsive and transparent e-Governance systems,” he said.

The minister said a single system to manage the electronic building plan approval workflow and the electronic storage of relevant documentation would be implemented and public access to the electronic building plan approval system across the department would be facilitated.

The department floated the request for proposal on Wednesday and the last date for submitting pre-bid queries is January 16. The service provider will be finalised in the February.