CHANDIGARH: Punjab local bodies department has in principal decided to put a cap on the fee charged by the architectures for drawing up a building plan. The move is aimed at providing monetary relief to the citizens of the state who have been complaining that they have to pay a huge amount to the architect for uploading the drawings of building plans online.After holding a meeting to review progress on the project of e-Naksha, local bodies minister Brahm Mohindra said that the major objection of the citizen was that the architects were demanding huge fees for drawing up their building plan.
Mohindra said that the motive of the launch of e-Naksha plan was to enhance government capacity and strengthen institutional capacity to deliver sustainable access to effective services for the urban poor.
He said that e-naksha plan was launched on January 15, 2019 and with this the automate building plan approval process was started in 165 ULBs and 27 Improvement Trusts and it provided one-stop platform for all architects/citizen to submit drawings/documents for building plan approval process. A total of 13,500 cases have been successfully entered in online system and more than 7,700 plans are cleared.