VUDA to introduce online approval of building plans

Monday, August 21, 2017 
Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA) will introduce approval of building plans through online in municipalities and panchayats under its purview.

VUDA Vice Chairman P.Basant Kumar said that all the master data concerned relating to approved layouts is uploaded and unless the details are furnished and mandatory documents uploaded the approval online will not accept it. He said the plan approvals for all buildings beyond G+2 construction will have to be applied online by licensed technical persons. After the application made out, it will go the ground level official in the local body concerned for verification. If all the details are furnished provisional approval is given online on the basis of which construction can begin. However, the employee concerned has to make post-verification. The employee has to make a field inspection within seven days and take photos using Apps and mentioning longitude and latitude and duly filling in the columns with details has to be sent to the note-sheet with summary. The final approval will be given in a fortnight, he said.

The application fee of Rs.10,000 has to be paid and the remaining fee during the process, he said.