Governor launches OBPAS for citizens of Chandigarh
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V. P. Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab and Administrator, U.T. Chandigarh launched the Online Building Plan Approval System (OBPAS) for the citizens of Chandigarh. Manoj Kumar Parida, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, UT, Chandigarh and K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, MCC were also present during the launch at Rajbhawan.
While sharing information about the system, K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner briefed that with reference to the project “Implementation of E Governance Services in Chandigarh”, there are 29 Municipal services out of which 15 are citizen centric and 14 are related to MCC for the smooth working of MCC. Important citizen related services includes Online Building Plan Approval System (OBPAS), Online Grievance Complaint Services, Water Supply and Sewerage Connections, Booking of Banquet Hall/Community Centers, Property tax etc. Main Internal Services includes Financial Management, Works Management, Apni Mandy& Day Market Branch etc.
He said that the main objectives of this project are to facilitate the citizens by providing online delivery of services, to minimize manual intervention, faster application submission, tracking, monitoring, 24×7 access to online citizen services, timely resolution of issues, increased transparency.
He said that the implementing agency PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Private Limited started the work on this project 16.10.2019 and till date 7 Services have already been Go Live which includes Online Grievance Complaint Services, Financial Management System, Sports and Cultural Branch, Public Relation, Agenda, Legal Case Management& Apni Mandy and Day Market. One of the major Service is Online Building Plan Approval System (OBPAS), which has been launched today.
He further said that the Government of India has embarked upon an ambitious journey to implement the Online Building Plan Approval System (OBPAS) to enable citizen services in all the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) across India. This has been identified as one of the key reforms’ agenda under the government missions like AMRUT with focus on improving the ‘Ease of doing Business’. The Chandigarh Smart City limited CSCL as part of Smart city mission endeavors to improve the ease of doing business and enhance citizen services by Online Building Plan Approval System (OBPAS). With the launch of OBPAS, Citizens have the following facilities available online:
- Submission of Building Plan Application along with required documents online
- No need to stand on queues in government offices.
- Online scrutiny of building plan as per the Chandigarh Building Rules
- SMS & Email Notifications to citizens related to their application status.
- No human intervention.
- Auto Calculation of Fee for Building Plan
- Citizens shall be able to submit fee online
- Timely Approval of the building plan drawing
- Entire process is transparent with well-defined roles of each department/employee.
- 24 X 7 Help Desk (0172-2787200) Shall be available for support of citizen / Architect.
- Registration form will be provided to the architects on MCC and CSCL web portal (http://mcchandigarh.gov.in&https://www.chandigarhsmartcity.in). Registration form shall be approved by the Department of URBAN PLANNING (Architecture Wing). Username and password will be shared with the Architects through Email.
