Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant on Monday launched the online Building Plan Approval Management System (BPAMS) initiated by the Town and Country Planning Department in the presence of Deputy Chief Ministerbabu Kavlekar at Secretariat, Porvorim.
This initiative is towards the goal of attaining faster and hassle free clearances for land development and building construction approval in a transparent manner.
This is also to improve Goa’s ranking under Ease of Doing Business by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), says a department press release.
The BPSMS is an automated end to end process design to cover the following:
- Registration of professionals and architects.
- Submission of building plan, generating automated plan scrutiny report, site inspection, generation of technical clearance and completion order for Town & Country Planning, Planning and Development Authority (PDA), Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC).
- Online payment of processing fees, infrastructure tax.
- Provision to track status of the application and intimation of the same to the applicant is facilitated through SMS and email.
The BPAMS application also proposed to be integrated with all the relevant stakeholders for issuance of construction license occupancy certificate and applicable NOCs to the extent of Village Panchayats, Municipalities, Directorate of Fire & Emergency, State Archaeological Department ASI, Government of India. Department of Forest, Department of Agriculture, Public Works Department, Goa State Pollution Control Board, Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority, South Central Railways/KRC. Captain of Ports, Goa State Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Civil Aviation/Naval Authorities, Directorate of Health.
The release further says the Town and Country Planning Department is introducing the BPAMS in a phased manner with purely residential single dwelling unit to be implemented in Phase-I. “Subsequently, movement of commercial and industrial plans shall be enabled through the system. However, for initial period of three months, the Department intends to run a parallel system with the manual submission process along with the online mode to stabilize the teething issues encountered at the initial stage,” it said.
The TCP has carried trainings sessions to architect and professionals to ensure smooth and transparent processing of application in BPAMS.
Further, it adds, the TCP has facilitated online Technical support help desk for addressing queries of the applicant with regards to BPAMS.
M/s. Vinzas Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. Chennai has developed the system on behalf of TCP Department and M/s. Goa Electronics Ltd. gave the Permit Management Support.
