12 cities to start single window building permission clearance

With a view to bring transparency and improve ease of doing business, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu today said 12 major cities across the country will switch over to single window online system to issue building permission from October 2 this year.
"12 major cities to switch over to single window integrated online building permission system: Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Lucknow.
"Guwahati, Bangalore & HAL Bangalore, Amritsar, Chennai, Nagpur, Jaipur, Aurangabad and Patna. This will be achieved by 2nd October, 2016," the Union Urban Development Minister tweeted.
These cities join Delhi and Mumbai where all construction permits would be granted only through online mechanism from October 2 onwards.

However, the present system of both online and manual procedure would continue till then, Naidu said.