Real-estate developers in Gujarat threaten ‘strike’

According to CREDAI Gujarat officials, only 8 per cent of the projects have received the necessary clearances. Real-estate developers in the state have threatened to go on a “strike” after an electronic system aimed at granting online building permissions failed to kick-off, three months after Chief Minister Vijay Rupani launched it, bringing the business to a “standstill”. According to CREDAI Gujarat officials, only 8 per cent of the projects have received thenecessary clearances. “Under the new on-line system we are supposed to submit our plans on-line. The software then scans the documents and gives approvals. Now due to issues with the software, projects are not getting approvals. Our business has almost come to a standstill,” said Shekhar Patel, chairman CREDAI-Gujarat. The online system, On-line Development Permission System (ODPS) was launched at an event on May 7 in Gandhinagar. Patel said that CREDAI officials handed over a letter to Rupani, earlier this month, stating that if manual approvals were not given till issues with ODPS system were ironed out, the sector will have to resort to “strike.”