A new building approval system TS-bPASS has been approved by the Telangana assembly
HYDERABAD: A Bill was passed by the Telangana Assembly on Monday to promote transparency and ease for citizens in getting approvals for building and layout. Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao (who piloted the Telangana State Building Permission Approval and the Self-Certification System (TS-bPASS) Bill, 2020) further added that “under the legislation, no permissions would be required for residential buildings in plots with up to 75 sq yards. Rapid urbanization was taking place in the state with about 42 percent of the population living in urban areas. The state government aimed at planned development and provision of appropriate basic amenities in towns and a new municipal Act was brought in last year to herald changes in municipal administration”,.
This act had introduced the development permission management system (DPMS) in 2015 in municipalities. Furthermore, this act is to address people’s difficulties and corruption in the process of obtaining permission for the construction of houses, the Minister said. The current bill had been brought to give statutory powers to the DPMS. Besides that it also ensures transparency and also makes people work with government responsibly through a self-certification system, Minister added.
Rama Rao later tweeted “TS-bPASS is an online time-bound approval single-window system. It has a view to improve transparency and to make it easy for citizens to get building and layout approvals. “Instant approval for residential buildings in plots more than 75 sq yards to up to 600 sq yards and height up to 10 meters will be based on self-certification,” he said.
Single-window approval is for the layouts/buildings in plots above 600 sq yards and height above 10 meters within 21 days, he further tweeted.
He also said that in case any urban local body or municipality fails to meet the deadline of 21 days, automatic deemed approval on the would-be issued on the 22nd day online to the citizen.
