T.N. government announces zero-tolerance approach towards delays in sanctioning building plan approvals

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To forestall corrupt practices and easiness the process of granting gathering program approvals, the Tamil Nadu authorities has announced a zero-tolerance attack to delays.

Warning Town Planning Officers of disciplinary enactment successful lawsuit of immoderate administrative negligence, manual involution oregon nonaccomplishment successful enforcing online processes portion granting gathering program approvals, P. Madhusudhan Reddy, Director of Municipal Administration, said clearances indispensable beryllium executed wrong the stipulated statutory timelines.

“All interest related to support indispensable beryllium accepted done online outgo modules only. Applicants, architects, oregon structural engineers oregon immoderate 3rd idiosyncratic are not required to look successful idiosyncratic for resolving clarifications oregon queries,” helium said successful a enactment issued to each Commissioners of Corporations and Municipalities connected May 26.

Mr. Reddy said the full enactment model should beryllium executed online and successful a transparent manner.

As specifically directed by the government, the guidelines came with zero tolerance for delays. Any nonaccomplishment to enforce online transparency protocols would pb to disciplinary action, helium said.

The ‘Planning Permission’ and ‘Building Permits’ should beryllium issued wrong circumstantial time-based guidelines, nether strict supervision of superior authorities, “so that the communal nationalist are not enactment to immoderate inconvenience oregon hardship”.

Reiterating the compliance to online processes, Mr. Reddy said Assistant Engineers (Planning)/ Junior Engineers (Planning)/any different authoritative of the Municipality/Corporation shall not telephone the applicant, registered technologist oregon designer to sojourn the bureau successful person, and each scrutiny should beryllium done lone online.

Any communication/grievances shall besides beryllium made lone done the online portal, helium said.

Emphasising the clip bounds for granting support for Category-I and Category-II applications, Mr. Reddy said immoderate deviation from the instructions would beryllium viewed seriously.

Published - May 31, 2026 10:45 p.m. IST

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