Hyderabad: Reduced time limits, no inspection in respect of regularized/approved layouts, provision of deemed approval, stipulation of time for seeking information from the public, cancellation of licenses of the licensed technical personnel for submitting incomplete or faulty information for a maximum of three times and fixation of responsibility on land sections who deal with the ownership issues are some of the major guidelines issued by the municipal administration department for speedy disposal of building applications. The Principal Secretary Municipal Administration Arvind Kumar issued orders to this affect on Friday.
The Minister for Municipal Administration Mr. K T Rama Rao in a recent meeting on the online building permissions had expressed concern over the delay that is taking place at every stage. The MA&UD Principal Secretary who reviewed the online building system issued the orders reducing the time limit for issue of building permission from 30 days to 21 days. If permission is not given within 21 days, it amounts to deemed approval. Time limit of ten days prescribed for seeking information on documents or additional information from the public. To ensure the above time limits are followed, the inspecting officer or the scrutiny officer has been instructed to complete the inspection within seven days. No inspection of the site if the site is located in approved or regularized layout. Verification of ownership documents shall be completed by the land section, revenue section of HMDA and GHMC within seven days. License of the licensed architects, engineers, surveyors will be cancelled if they submit wrong plans or give faulty information more than three times. If the time limits are not followed, penalty of Rs 1000 for every one day delay will be levied on the staff concerned for the delay, Mr. Kumar said.
The G.O.Ms.No.10, Dated 19 January 2018 Read the following:
To enhance the Ease Of Doing Business Government have introduced online approval system in all Urban Local Bodies of State for issue of building / layout permissions and same is being implemented since 1 ½ years. To expedite the process for speedy disposal of building applications Government have issued no. of orders / instructions from time to time viz; uploading the inspection reports within 24 hours from the date of inspection, risk based classification of buildings to dispense with post inspection in respect of plots in approved layouts and to rationalize the inspection schedules, single joint inspection by all the concerned departments etc. But it has come to the notice of the Government that abnormal delays are taking place at every stage viz;
i. inspection / scrutiny officers are taking lot of time for inspection / scrutiny of applications,
ii. shortfall in documents / further information required is being called for after 25 to 28 days i.e., just 2 / 3 days before the expiry of time limit of 30 days prescribed by the Government for issue of building permission
iii. The land section of HMDA / GHMC who are examining the title aspects are not adhering to any time limit for giving remarks on title aspects.
iv. In some of the cases the Licensed Technical Personnel are not submitting the plans as per the norms which is leading to rejection and resubmission of applications and thereby creating lot of inconvenience to the applicants.
2. In view of the above, Government after careful examination of the matter hereby issues the following orders for speedy disposal of building applications and to enhance the ‘Ease of Doing Business.’
1. Time Limit for issue of Building Permissions – 21 Days.
The Sanctioning Authority shall communicate the approval or refusal of the Building Permission within the above stipulated time period of 21 days.
In respect of plots in approved / regularized layouts, inspection of the site shall be dispensed with and approval process shall be started without inspection
If the Sanctioning Authority fails to intimate in writing to the person or body who has submitted the application for building permission its decision of sanction or refusal within the above stipulated period of 21 days, such application with plans and statements shall be deemed to have been sanctioned. Provided the deemed sanction shall not be construed as authorizing any such person or body to carry out the construction or works in contravention of or against any regulation, bye-laws or any other law in force.
If the Sanctioning Authority fails to issue the approval / rejection within the above stipulated period, the responsibility shall be fixed on the concerned staff who has failed to process the file within stipulated time and for every one day of delay, a penalty of Rs.1000/- shall be levied on the concerned staff for delay.
2. Time Limit for calling short fall in documents / further information if any – 10 days.
The Sanctioning Authority must communicate the short fall in documents/ further information sought if any. within the 10 days of receipt of application. This will ensure that each of these cases is processed within the stipulated 21 days.
If there is any delay in following this time line, responsibility shall be fixed on the concerned staff who has failed to process the file and for every one day of delay a penalty of Rs.1000/- shall be levied on the concerned staff for delay.
3. To ensure the above time lines inspection / scrutiny shall be completed within 7 days. Parallelly the Land Sections of HMDA / GHMC shall examine the title aspects and furnish their remarks within 7 days so that further process (either for calling shortfall in documents or processing the application for grant of permission) can be done without any delay.
4. To ensure receipt of building applications in full shape and to prevent harassment of the applicants, the licenses of the Licensed Technical Personnel submitting building applications which are incomplete / not in accordance with the check list or certain faulty information for a maximum of three times shall be cancelled and the list of such Licensed Technical Personnel shall be placed in the website of GHMC / HMDA / concerned ULB as block-listed.
3. Commissioner, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation; Commissioners of all Municipal Corporations/Municipalities/ Nagarpanchayats, Metropolitan Commissioner, Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, Vice Chairmen of all UDAs, Director of Town and Country Planning and Director of Municipal Administration shall make necessary changes in the online system and ensure that the above time lines are followed strictly and they shall levy penalties on the concerned staff as specified above in case of any delays.