The Principal Secretary Municipal Administration and Urban Development reviewed the progress in the disposal of online building applications with officials of HMDA, DTCP and GHMC today at Secretariat. He asked the officials to ensure that all applications should be cleared within the stipulated twenty one days in accordance with the GO issued by the government. A meeting with the line departments such as fire services, registration, revenue and irrigation would be convened shortly to sort out the issues pertaining to granting permissions. Mr. Kumar also reviewed the disposal of LRS applications and directed the officials to clear all pending applications by the end of this month. He asked the HMDA officials to send a district wise list of net pending cases to the concerned district collectors. Joint meeting of HMDA and revenue officials should be held on a regular basis where clarity on government lands is required, he said. HMDA should use technology like engaging drone cameras to identify illegal constructions, he suggested. He asked the DTCP to conduct weekly review meetings with all the ULBs to expedite the process of clearing pending LRS and building permission applications.
The HMDA Commissioner Chiranjeevulu, Collectors of Medchal and Ranga Reddy M V Reddy and Raghunandan Rao and S Balakrishna of the planning department attended the meeting.