Admin departments in Chandigarh fight over approval system, building plans on hold
Two departments of the UT administration —building branch and urban planning — are locked in a disagreement over the system to be adopted for approving building plans.
The department of urban planning is pressing for allowing residents to start construction on basis of self-certification, which is mandatory for commercial, residential and industrial buildings, while the building branch wants both online building-plan approval system and self-certification to run side by side. The tussle has created confusion and put a spanner in the process of sanctioning building plans.
Officials of the building branch are of the view that the online building plan approval system will help them ascertain whether architects have submitted correct building plans under self-certification or not. The building branch has written to UT finance secretary for allowing them to run both systems simultaneously.
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