Approval portal for building plans just a click away
By C Shivakumar | Express News Service | Published: 11th October 2017 02:50 AM |
Last Updated: 11th October 2017 06:57 AM | A+A A- |
CHENNAI: From Wednesday you can submit your building plan proposals online (http://ppacmda.tn.gov.in/) for approval by Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA).
Sources indicated that the Chief Minister is likely to inaugurate the website on Wednesday where in online submission of Planning Permission Application (PPA) can be made.
Not only that. Even the portal of Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TNRERA) is likely to be inaugurated the same day. Interestingly, the online submission of planning permission will be introduced by CMDA after more than nine years it was kept pending. Sources indicated that it will ensure transparency in the whole process. The website states that from now onwards no manual applications will be accepted.
It is learnt that the single window portal will be integrated with 32 services of seven to eight departments. The decision to start ‘Online submission and processing of PPA’ started following instructions by the Chief Secretary who chaired a meeting on ‘Ease of Doing Business’. Under Ease of Doing Business, it will become imperative for the State to decide on the PPA within 45 days under the single window clearance.
However, sources indicated that the success of online submission of PPA depends on implementation of the Tamil Nadu Common Building Rules and National Building Code 2016 which will ensure responsibility and accountability to planning permission applicants.
Interestingly, the State government has prepared a blueprint to frame ‘Tamil Nadu Common building Rules, 2016’ for local bodies in accordance with the Model Building bye-laws. The Common Building Rules for entire Tamil Nadu would mean that now there will not be different sets of development rules for corporations, municipalities, town panchayats and panchayats.
Meanwhile, TNRERA which has been manually registering the projects under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, will now start the process online as its website is also likely to be inaugurated by the Chief Minister.
