PANAJI: The automated online Building Plan Approval Management System (BPAMS), which the town and country planning (TCP) department had rolled out for small homes, could finally be extended to multi-dwelling units, said TCP minister Vishwajit Rane.
The BPAMS is designed to analyse building plans within minutes to check if the construction plans adhere to TCP’s planning rules and guidelines. The system generates a set of reports which specify if the construction plan has violated the Goa Land Development and Building Construction Regulations.
The complete process, from scrutiny of building plans, construction, and issuing technical clearance and completion orders, will be automated through BPAMS. This will reduce human intervention and prevent corruption.
Once implemented, the TCP will start issuing completion certificates, development permissions, and technical clearances for residential complexes through the software, which has been designed to speed up the process of building plan compliance checks.
The department has already started to fast-track permissions for multi-dwelling units, Rane told TOI. “In another three, four months we should be able to do it. We have given fast-track approvals even to municipalities, and it will be on the same lines,” said the TCP minister.
Rane said that permissions for mega housing projects are already being fast-tracked, and nothing remains pending.
TCP rolled out BPAMS for single dwelling units in July 2020 to help improve Goa’s ranking on the ease of doing business scale. Despite indications that Goa could improve its ease of doing business score by automating the approvals for multi-dwelling units and commercial projects, the TCP department resisted the move, said govt sources.
